Saturday 15th to Monday 17th September 2018
We have been in Norway for 50 days today and not a day has gone by without seeing something amazing. Takk Norge.
However, the weather of late hasn’t been that kind and we have undoubtedly spent more than we planned to spend. The decision was to move south taking in a visit to Copenhagen, a place neither of us had been before.
As the checkout time is 16:00 at Oslo Camping and we still had 4 hours validity left on our Oslo Passes, before leaving we drove up to visit the nearby Holmenkollen National Ski Arena. This has facilities for ski jumping, cross country skiing and biathlon. The viewing platform at the top of the ski jump offers fantastic views over Oslo and its’ surrounding area. There is a fine museum covering over 4000 years of skiing history.
Holmenkollen Ski Jump,
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The last ten days have been spent dashing for the midnight sun travelling the 1750 km, or so, from Bredäng Camping to Nordkapp (North Cape), said to be the most northerly point of Europe that you can drive to. This included some R&R and domestic tasks in Sundsvall and the stunning Storforsen rapids.
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Wednesday 18th July 2018
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAKE, 6 YEARS OLD TODAY!
After sampling some authentic Thai cuisine last night at the onsite restaurant, Mä-Thai, we had changed our minds about moving on and were both in favour of a trip into Stockholm today.
A short 700 metre walk from the campsite is Bredäng Metro station which is perfect for the 10 km journey into the city on the Röda linjen/Red Line. Our destination was T-Centralen, Stockholm City, passing through Gamla Stan, which we would visit later in the day. Continue reading Stockholm →
Sunday 15th to Tuesday 17th July 2018
One of our to do list tasks whilst travelling up through Sweden was a visit to the capital city, Stockholm. After ablutions, in the caravan, a rarity, we packed ready to travel to our target for the day, Gränna Camping which was roughly half way toward Stockholm.
When packing to leave, I prepare the outside whilst Kim does inside. My job was much easier as we hadn’t detached the car, nor had an electric cable to wind, nor used the stabilising legs because of our late arrival. Continue reading Toward Stockholm →
Saturday 14th July 2018
Today we are heading for Sweden. We were booked on the 18:30hr TT Lines ferry from Rostock to Trelleborg so we had a casual pack up of the car and caravan. Lutz & Antje had an appointment in Berlin so we said our goodbyes and proceeded into Oranienburg for much needed supplies.
Around noon we were ready to roll and set off onto the autobahn. Almost immediately we were slowed to a crawl by road works and very heavy traffic. There were long sections of quite narrow lanes and 60kph speed limits.
Eventually we started to make good progress, well, 80kph progress which is the speed limit for untested caravans in Germany.
After a halfway stop for coffee we arrived in good time for our ferry, the delightfully named MS Huckleberry Finn.
Towing Kilometres – Today: 219 Cumulative: 17,130
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A Diary Of Our Caravan Tour Around Europe
