So after many days of driving, a lot of photos and loads of times filling up with petrol, we finally made it to Kiruna. And a first on this blog a photo not taken by me and a photo with me in it, so actually 2 firsts.
After the national park we headed north on a road on which we didn’t see any people, houses or cars for nearly over an hour. We stopped in this little town, on a river and of course a lake, called Ytterhogdal. Brilliant name, isn’t it?
After Rättvik we drove to the Fulufjället national park which was close to the norwegian border. It was pretty amazing, I’m afraid my photo of the highest swedish waterfall, the Njupeskär didn’t quite turn out like I wanted. But with the sun right behind it I really didn’t know how to do it better.
From Karlsborg we travelled north past Örebro and Borlänge to Rättvik. We actually thought Rättvik was kind of nice. Basically for 2 reasons. Firstly we thought the hundreds of ducks living on the camping site were brilliant. It felt like camping in a nature reserve. And secondly it has this amazingly long pier which just ends in the middle of the see on this tiny island withe a couple of trees and benches.
We drove along the coast till we got to Lysekil and then started driving further inland. We stopped at Trollhättan to watch the opening of the Trollhättan falls which was a bit disappointing. We spent the night at Karlsborg, another nice little town next to a sea.
We drove past Göteborg and stopped at our first camping site in Kungälv. Which was really nice because it was situated right next to bohus fortress.
So how amazing is this girl??? She’s actually carrying my photo stuff and I can take photos of her while she’s eating or drinking or whatever. Am I lucky or what?
Malmö was great but the weather wasn’t, it was raining constantly. So after 2 nights we started our journey north. We didn’t really get too far, about one hour along the coast to Helsingborg. Which is also pretty cool. I’m afraid we didn’t go up the Kärnan but at least I took a photo.
By the way, what do you think of the black frame? Thought it might look nice. Not too sure yet myself.
Before we left we had to do quite a lot of work on the bus. We had to get a new “pickerl” from the garage, install another box on the roof, we had to refill the gastanks so we could actually eat some warm food, refill with water, fill up two petrolcanisters for the “sparsley populated” north lappland, install the bike rack (see picture 2 
) and so on. And then we hit the road. We left Vienna in the evening and dropped of in St.Pölten because of some paper work we needed to fill out. We drove about 5 hours the first day all the way to prague. I always forget how close Prague and Vienna are. It would seem so obvious to make that trip more often.
