Stories about Sweden

God afton allihopa, as they say in Sweden.

Now when Bruno is having his last sauna for quite some time, i have time to write you stories about Sweden. We have spent now total nine days in Sweden (Sun12th - Tue21st) and im quite surprised that it took us so short time to drive down the whole Sweden. I also realized that we spent most of our time in the north doing stuff there, and this mid- and southern part we have mainly been sitting in the can and driving. It maybe had something to do with the fact that some days it has been  raining so piss much that it has been useful only to drive. Butbut, what have we been doing then? Well...

After leaving Finland at the border of Pello we spent the first day here in Swede - driving. Or lets say that Bruno was driving while i red a book. That day was the first properly rainy one and we travelled to via Gällivare to the parking lot of Muddus National Park, close to... ....well Lapland =) The next day was again extremely nice and sunny and we did a 25km hiking in the park. Coosing the route was a bit optimistic since only 15km would have been already enough. But anyway we saw nice views, some forest birds, even two reindeers munch-munching food, and a truly nice canyons and waterfalls. Nice day!

The next day was a bit more grayish and we drove south through Jokkmokk to spend the night in Arvidsjaur camping. Cute small village (or town?) where we did our first visit in Swedish supermarket ICA. And can you belive, that they had there in the lappish smallish foodstore nicer stuff and better choise than in the whole bloody Prisma or CItymarket in Finland! Amazing...

The next day was rainy as hell and we drove the whole day down to Uumaja, to Ilkkas and Eijas place, where we arrived in the evening. It was truly nice to sleep in an apartment instead of our 6m2 portable apartment, and it was nice to be social to other people than just to eachother ;o) We spent two nights in Uumaja going to city by bikes in the daytime and grilling excellent lamb (from ICA) in the evening. And maybe nicest thing was that Ilkka fixed my poor old laptop since he suggested to try to install Ubuntu - and it worked! Thats the reason im now sitting (for the first time) nicely on the sofa of our camper, sipping nice port wine and writing you these few lines =) What a life, jeje...

From Uumaja we didnt start driving too early in the morning, so we didnt make it further than to Höga Kusten (the high coast). Its a Unesco world heritage area with really nice high cliffs coming straight from the sea, and with high hills and kind of looking like a mixture of Switzerland and Finish archipelago. Really nice. The next day though it was so piss raining that we didnt go for a hike but drove with a car a "sightseeing route" in the islands that was marked with white flowers. During that day we drove to Sundsvall where we went for a lunch in a nice eco-cafe, and for the night we went to Lottefors - close to Bollnäs. We never made it to the camping site since we saw a nice little water power station (Lottefors kraftverk) and we parked the camper next to it for the night. During this driving day i became true cloud spotter, since the storm clouds were amazing! We didnt get so many showers on us while driving, but the road went so high up in the mountains (or hills?) that we saw all the possible could types and weathers on one sky. I can load one day the best of those pics for you all to see =)

The following day it was again okayish weather and we drove down to Falun to see their Unesco world heritage spot. It was the koppargruva - an old copper mine from the 16th century. Quite impressive, unluckily we didnt have our camera with us during that day =( From Falun we drove another 170km down to FIlipstad camping - a really nice and cute camp site next to a lake. There they actually had an internet, and just when we had written down stories for you and even loaded few pictures, the connection died and -bufff- everything disappeared =/ Well, thats life.

And then yesterday we drove again in afternoon rain all the way to Göteborg and spent the night in parking lot in Kungälv - a small village 20km from Göteborg. We were supposed to go to camping site in the city but the girl behind the counter said with bright blue eyes that a night would have costed 370sek! Joojoo we said and went away. And in Kungälv there was supposed to be another camping but we would have had to have some camping card (!) to stay there. WE got pissed off and drove the car to the closest parking area. And just by luck when the general mood in our small home was about to get darkish, we decided to go for a small walk in the small city. And hahaaa we ran into a small cute italian restaurant where we wnt to eat and excellent pizza. Nice food and a half a bottle of wine always makes you feel happier, right? =)

And today we parked our car in a parking lot of a supermarket, we took the bikes and went biking to the Göteborg downtown. Again, really nice city. And so we are here, in a camping area 50km south from Göteborg, nice and clean after sauna, with reindeer meat sitting in the fridge waiting to be prepared as poronkäristys with mashed potatoes, yummy! And just now since MrB came from sauna, id better give the laptop to him and start preparing the dinner. Maybe nice porto is not enough, hihi =) Tomorrow we will head to Denmark side and meet the family


Billion *hugs* and *kisses* and *bisous* to all of you love ones <3