More pics rideout/raduno VWD 2011

I had hoped that the live-blogging from Vespa World Days 2011 in Gjövik, Norway, should have gone better. Well, the tele-connections were not on my side. Here is the pictures during the rideout to Lillehammer.

At the start of the rideout/raduno on friday.

We're off! Downhill from the camping on top of Gjövik.

Vespas in a very long row. 400-500 were participating.

One hand on the handlebars, one on the camera.

Life in a northern town, this Vespisti is from Trondheim in Norway.

Vespa Club Città Bianca's driver on a, white, Vespa GS 160.

I think this rider is from Vespa Club Pordenone. 

So is this one.

Very anonymous...

This is Ronnie from Blacksmith's Scooter Club, Sweden.

Celebrating Italia's 150th anniversary?

This might be a rider from Vespa Club Lund, Sweden.

One of the oldest, a faro basso 1953 or 1954, from VC Malonno, Italy.

Here they come again!

Through a tunnel near Lillehammer.

A practical combo, the PAV is useful.

Nice view in Lillehammer. 

Some of us had trouble finding the right way.

That's me! Reflecting on a Vespa...

And the Vespa 180 SS I had to borrow.

Vespa World Days - andiamo!

 

Just about a month left to Vespa World Days in Norway. It starts on the 19th of may. I'm going and looking forward to the event. Were about ten vespistis from Stockholm participating. Then there are more scooterists from other parts of Sweden. I think I'll take a light blue Vespa...

For two years in a row I traveled in Norway during holidays in the beginning of the 90's. On my Vespa PX 200 from 1983 (sold many years ago). I lived in Luleå in the north Sweden at that time. After traveling 180 km I passed the Arctic Circle. When I reached the goal, Andenes on Andöya above Lofoten, I had driven 1 000 km from my home. The distances up north are no joke! The roads in Norway are narrow and curvy, lovely for a Vespa. Camping in the wild is also allowed.

Vado a Vespa World Days 2011, in Norvegia. Un paese molto bellissima! La prima volta a VWD per me. E mi aspetto molto su i raduni e incontro altri vespisti.