Week 5 – 2nd to 8th July

Denmark

Well as luck would have it, or perhaps Andrew adopting the ‘just give it a little hit and it should be fine technique’ the sat nav worked this morning, it will likely be a short reprieve but a better start to Scandinavia than we anticipated! This is especially since Andrew didn’t sleep a wink with worry – he’s very fond of NavMan bless him.

A fairly long drive and we arrive in Denmark; chosen camp site is just a convenient stop over and we may be thankful for that since it appears there are some ‘meetings’ going on in the site and after a little further investigation we notice the lights in front of the ‘meeting tent’ do appear to be in the shape of a cross…waiting for the action to kick off as we speak! Its not a bad spot though

and it did give chance to rekindle ones childhood



but just look at the price of fuel – they did say Scandinavia was expensive!

Arus

A nice little town to spend a few hours, stroll the pretty cobbled streets

and get soaking wet

It was the start of the tall ships race the next day so there were a few about

and we got to go on a Mexican one and have a nose about.

Copenhagan

It was raining a fair bit so we decided to opt for the open top bus tour – we should have just got wet and walked! However, nice city

and when the sun did come out in the afternoon the canal area is a nice place to chill out, especially since this was jazz festival week.


We considered travelling more of Denmark, it sounds nice enough, but we just know there is better ahead where we could spend our time – namely Norway. We have also seen enough cities, too many really, we are not really city people but its just panned out that way recently.

Sweden

Gothenburg

Crossed the border into Sweden and headed to Gothenburg – ahh another city! Its still raining and that’s partly the reason. Its just another city so nothing to report, although it did give Andrew chance to wheel this cute little trolley around the supermarket

and we realised the Swedes are as fond of their ‘farts’ as the Germans, they even grade their fairground rides in them!

Orust

Heading north, just an hour from Gothenburg we at last start to see some better scenary along the Swedish fjords

and stay at a nice camp site on the bay, far too cold to swim but fun hiking up the pancake rocks in the gales.

Week 6 – 9th to 15th July

Lake Vanern

Inland from Orust we made a stop at Lacko castle, said to be a typical fairytale castle and the sun shone!

We camped at the tip of Lake Vanern, one humungous lake that we just couldn’t see the other side of which apparently means it’s at least 8 miles long according to Andrew.

The Gota canal is some hundreds of km long, a 4 day boat trip apparently, and we cycled 7 of them – there and back if you please!

We were going to head over to Stockholm and then back through a little northern/central Sweden to Norway, but have decided to give that all a miss as we feel the need to see the beauty of the Norwegian fjords. Heading for the border we make a nights stop on a lake at Arjang that allowed for this.

Next blog - Norway xx