A caravan of cars with a sporty look and who filled up in the center yesterday, made the "Porsche-alarm" go off among Fremovers readers. And then it turned out that it was "only" a bunch of Mazdas that were passing through.

Only and only

When Framover informs the participants that we had been told that it was a bunch of Porsches that had been spotted, the answer came back quickly.

-No, rather these. It is much nicer people who drive these cars than Porsches. So now we know. The 40 cars represented car enthusiasts from large parts of the world, Scandinavia, middle-Europe, USA, New Zealand and Canada. The only thing that tied them together was the brand of their cars.

Mazda MX-5 , which is also known as miata and has given the expedition an alternative name, Midnightmiata. Some were just out of the factory gates when they started the trip north. Some had already well passed their first youth. And so had most of the drivers and passengers.

MIDNIGHTSUN

-The caravan has been an annual thing for the past ten years, says Marc Warken from Luxenburg and Andreas Gerlach from Germany, on behalf of the 73 participants who have joined "Till midnattssolen 2001", a tour that goes from Paris via Stockholm, north over Sweden to the arctic circle, and then from Björkliden to Narvik before they start to go south over Norway with Stockholm as the final destination. -It is a Swedish couple that has arranged this years tour, says the pair who also thought it was a bit sad that the sun failed them during their stop in Narvik. -But we have had fantastic weather during the trip, they add before continuing to their next stop, the ferry across Tysfjorden.

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CARAVAN: Till Midnattssolen 2001 has pulled together 40 cars of the Mazda MX-5 kind. 73 people from "all over the world" were represented as they passed Narvik yesterday.

GOT TO SEE THE MIODNIGHT SUN. Even though it rained in Narvik yesterday, the midnightsuncaravan got to see what they had come from. The sun was up at Bjorkliden, says Marc Warken and Andreas Gerlach.