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Hello hello hello, Welcome to the show, maybe we’ll do a wet Tshirt contest, we are collecting female underwear, anything, even with a pin! What does this one say: you’re Polish? Love your nails… 

We have changed sides, countries, continents, languages, temperatures, monedas and lots more. A ferry to Poland being near the same price as the infamous Sontsbridge thus avoiding Denmark, taking us to new destinations, made the decision easy. But the adaptation: Where the Swedish drove slow the polish like to be formula 1 drivers, the language stays a blur, incomprehensible, shame, they do speak English! Today in comparison to yesterday is an energetic and sweaty experience; the ferry took close to 12 hours of relaxing which became a bit boring, so come well prepared, you are not allowed in the camper and the gaz needs to be turned off, I lost some seafood and icecream no réal loss, But hey , we learn,,,So today was a working day: got the gaz filled, diesel as well, found a source for water, and did a washing. Yeah wow, clean everything! Near impossible in Sweden and Norway.. And an A plus is Aldi besides Lidl, got me some Polish beers 🍺  no more 3.5 we go for 6.0.. WELCOME TO THR CONTINENT  show me the way..   No Idea where this takes us, thunderstorm close, but temperature very heavy, I would enjoy a good splatter’’ Shame to see that my internet provider keeps upping the price because he feels I am spending too much time abroad, have to find an option for that in the future. Ah small remark, our Yorkshire friends informed me bout an international Credit Card: Monzo? Well maybe yes, but not yet for the mainland.

Djellabahs, Burka’s & Balaclavas at Lidl!

Sweden has it all, but probably more mosquitoes. What they have as well is many, many camping cars, the Swedish I mean. Of course there are a lot of Germans as well, less Finnlandais, Dutch but mostly in normal cars(hotel, airbnb or 2ndhomes?) English we see very view, and who did I end up with: Paul’s neighbours from Yorkshire, Yorki’s or are those just those obnoxious little dogs?

So we’ve been having nice weather ever since we crossed the border from Norway, drove along the coast, B-roads nice and slow, from along and through Gotenburg nearly to Malmo is horse country with beaches like the middle west coast of France, with shallow tides, and old windmills. More inland nice parking on these local bathing lakes is where I met the Yorkshire couple, forgot their name, forgot to take a picture, that’s me. So we’re on our way to Karlskrona, details later, stopped to do some shopping again next to a huge Ikea, well the whole shopping centre was immense so no wonder. Drove on to Olofström, where it was getting hot, wrong parking but loads of recreational activities, canoeing hiking and BIKING yepp. Unloaded and got to it, rounded the lake, contemplating to stay another day. Nice for U guys too to walk.

Coastline Gotenburg

Spot where I met the Yorki’s

FROM 12° TO 24° AND FROM NORWAY TO SWEDEN…

KRISTIANSUND, watch out there’s also KRISTIANSAND. In the neighbourhood of Trondheim on the coast they wanted to link lots of island by train, didn’t work out, so now it’s simply a road,ATLANTERHAVSVEGEN,and some call it the most scenic beautiful coastal road. Well, been there, drive it, even slept on it,,, then I drove on to the TROLLSTIGGEN, which is a hairpin mountainroad of spectacular narrowness. Near impossible with the amount of tourist busses. i saw one camping car having discussions with one of these busses😎. Well I got to the top had a wash in one of the many waterfalls, and decided to spend the night to wake up in a cloud with zero visibility. Luckily it was 06.00 so alone on the road together with some sheep..  Plan was to drive on to GEIRANGER FJORD. Again the most beautiful fjord in Norway. Well they obviously made it impossible to park or spend the night in a camper. So either Hotel or turn around.. So I went the TROLLSTIGGEN down as well, so that counts double, NO? Yes these fjords are beautiful and impossible to get around, and underneath costs money, so unfortunately I have hit the E6 again with all it’s tolls and ended near 500km further east in Sweden with much better weather and straighter roads.

THE BIGGEST WATERFALL OF SWEDEN? REALLY?

JAMSTLAND, wilde ik absoluut bezoeken, vanwege zijn ruige natuur, de vele mbt trails en de grootste waterval van Zweden?. Ik heb vanuit Noorwegen een behoorlijke omweg genomen om de E6 te mijden. Dus van Norway to Swedeen en heb daar een tunnel getroffen met één enkele baan. Tegemoetkomend verkeer moest in inhammen opzij. Daarna was de weg langs het immense meer was identiek eenbaans! TRUDGING ALONG THE TUNDRA MILE AFTER MILE!….Via Ostersund naar Åre alwaar dit skieoort te vinden is. Een parkeerplaats direct voor een reservaat met wandelpaden, heerlijk rustig. Meteen op zoek naar mogelijkheden, en jawel, een paar verbodsborden negerend kwam ik plots voor TRAILS, de cobra, schitterend, en ook weer eenvoudig de weg terug gevonden naar Tiny, wel een beetje klimmen. De volgende dag meteen weer op de fiets en ditmaal een Trail hoger genomen, wederom WOW, de stoelliften waren nog niet eens in werking gezet.. Even opgefrist en op naar de GROOTSTE WATERVAL VAN ZWEDEN,, okay, imposant maar dit kan niet de grootste zijn, er word ook gesproken over de SEVEN SISTERS! Nou ja hier wat foto’s: 

FAUSKE-MOSJOEN 6°

 En dat zijn niet de lengte en breedtegraad van de noordpoolcirkel, nee, de temperatuur begon vandaag met 6°C… en kwam niet hoger dan 12°. 

Oke, dit deel ging door het binnenland en omhoog over een plateau waar zelfs nog sneeuw lag, wild water rivieren waar ik een wrak van een jaren ‘20 auto vond? Het arme echtpaar, uitgedost voor een luxe vakantie, geslipt in de sneeuw en in het ravijn gestort, ik zie het helemaal voor me. Zelfs nu, in de zomer deze rivier wild, wild, wild. Hoe zou dat eruit zien in de winter. 

Elke 3/4 km een parkeerplaats om wat te doen? Er is nix, en bij die rivier komen is niet meer mogelijk want er ligt een spoorlijn tussen. Jammer anders had ik graag een bad genomen. Saai was t niet, ben met 65 km/t (tinn=uur) op de cruiscontrole dit plateau over gegaan, tot ergenis van sommige. Maar er was niets, huis nog steeg. Geen beest, rendier of eland te zien….tot op de laatste landweg waar plots zo’n enorm beest stom staat te zijn in het midden van de weg!! Hij schrok gelukkig meer dan ik😎

Het laatste stukje langs de zee, reeds 220 km onderweg, dacht ik te kunnen vissen met de nieuwe ‘leurs’ blijkt dat daar ook die treinrails me de toegang tot de zee blokkeren. En dus ook een rustige overnachting. Ik ben dus van de E6 afgegaan om dit naaktstrand te bezoeken, alhoewel strand? En naakt? Foto volgt.

Frappant dat zelfs op afgelegen plekjes hier goed internet is.

TUNNELFOBIA OR THE E4 VERSUS E6

The first roadsign indicating Trondheim said 1000km, they must have been eager to get there because you cannot miss it. The second sign, this morning, said 800km, so now it’ll be 600km. The E6 is the one and only coastal road, a two lane blacktop. Don’t misunderstand me; one lane south, one lane north, 80km/t max. If not indicated otherwise. To be honest it is no fun. The Swedish were slow on their own E4, now they are speeding and overtaking even in these tunnels! On top of which the weather is grey and wet, cold as well if you do get the chance to step outside. The E4 is it’s Swedish twin with the difference that you can take other smaller roads inland, the north of Norway is maybe 60km wide and consists of mountains non habitated so no roads! National Parks with interdiction signs and waterfalls that block the way, nice to look at from below, no more. So after today’s Narvik to Fauske, close to 200km and a stiff neck, tunnelfobia has made it’s entry. I must have gone through 20 odd tunnels. They are two cars wide and never very straight, some climing and then descending, lorries coming towards you with hardly room to pass. And then suddenly it ends in a very bright daylight… Have stopped at several places, met a woman with her boy fishing crabs who told me it was the worsed summer since they bought, but all places right next to the E6, this one has the view but also the lorries at 3 meters. 

Maybe we’ll do some night riding 

Today was also the first Norwegian ferry.

Which you don’t pay aboard, but you’ll get the bill send home to you, wooops.

CAMPER COMFORT

No jokes or song texts today, it has been on and off with the weather, which suited me fine, one day cold the next sunny, but now it’s been 3 days drizzle and cold as well, hardly above 12° is not comfy. And it makes that you keep driving and this missing maybe some interesting stuff. I drove through Narvik which is pretty big and not very interesting, drove past Tromsô because it’s on an island and you’ld ferry there and back for what? Parked here and there, where it looked okay, tried to bike but found no tracks, but only these locals selling souvenirs. Watched the tides coming and going, now at a parking where the water is clear as glass, if tomorrow is just that much better I’ll go for a swim and catch me some fish..

18/07/26 BUCKET LIST THE

 NORDKAPP REALISER

100km from

 Aujourd’hui c’est que des ciels et la nature, la route solitaire avec parcours dans zone militaire avec arrestation, oui, pas le droit de s’arrêter. Bien sortie et continuer a faire des photos 😎 ils me suivent maintenant, moi le roi du retraite!!

Arriver a une aire de camping cars avec belles emplacements, toilets, eau potable, je reste la nuit. Chercher des petites bois pour allumer bbq et griller des saucisses piquantes, la vie belles des fois..

Internet pas top, meilleurs photos a suivre 

Apres des ciels dramatique une emplacement idyllique, une trajet nuitée avec une mer huilée majestueuse. Ce que nous approche plus au sommet, et regarde des bonjours de tous comme au Azores.

I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER…

 KIRUNA(GAS)-FINLAND-NORWAY

Anders gezegd van Skandinavië naar Lapland en door naar de Nordkapp. Heel wat kilometers gemaakt zodat het einddoel nu beter in zicht komt en we ervoor en tijdens kunnen afremmen en genieten. 

Another 200 miles to go, hands wet on the wheel, weinig verkeer des te meer muggen, gelukkig werkt dat spul wat ik gekocht heb, maar dat neemt dat gezoem niet weg 🦟  Nog een paar rendieren gezien die allemaal halsbandjes hadden?