{"id":535270,"date":"2026-07-20T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535270\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:38:08","slug":"the-lonely-road-to-europes-arctic-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/535270\/","title":{"rendered":"The lonely road to Europe&#8217;s Arctic edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">One of Norway&#8217;s 18 National Scenic Routes, the Varanger Scenic Route follows the E75 and Fv341 for 160km (99 miles) from Varangerbotn to Hamningberg, tracing the country&#8217;s remote Arctic coastline. Allow a full day, although two days gives time to explore Vads\u00f8, Vard\u00f8 and Ekker\u00f8y.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Best time to go: June to September for long daylight hours and wildlife. Winter offers snow-covered landscapes and the Northern Lights but requires confidence driving in Arctic conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Norway&#8217;s 18 National Scenic Routes, the Varanger Scenic Route follows the E75 and Fv341 for 160km&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-535270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}