Going northwards: Sweden

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The trip is made in 4 people with a camper.
The duration was 27 days in which we covered 9520 kilometers.
Basically it was reported the complete itinerary of the trip to Lofoten, of which this is a small part.

Friday 21.07.95 from Milan to S. Gotthard
Leaving home at 20, with new camper, looking for a little 'crisp direction of San Gottardo. The MI-Lakes are a lot of traffic at the weekend. At the entrance of Switzerland, and are already 22:00, we pay the classic autostradale stamp (FS 40). In Switzerland, fortunately, the traffic is much reduced. We travel up to stop at 23.45, passed via the Gotthard route, the first service area to sleep.
221 Km

Saturday 22.07.95 by S. Gottardo in Hamburg
Day crossing of Germany At 6:00 breakfast and departure. At 8:00 we are already in Basel and enter into Germany. To 12.30 after spending Frankfurt stopover for lunch. We maintained a speed high enough for a camper, around 110 km / h because we did not find any traffic. At 19.45, after Hamburg, 50 km from Kiel we stop on the motorway, in Schleswig.
1037 Km

Sunday 23.07.95 from Hamburg via Denmark to Sweden
Provided for the ferry to Sweden.
Departure from the 7.15. At 8:45, we enter into Denmark at Flensburg. To 13.45 we are now very close to Frederikshavn, arrived at the port on the ship that was leaving but we were unable to find a place, we then waited until the next shipment of 19.30. The ticket we paid in Swedish krona. Landings to 23 in Gothenburg. We have left the city heading towards Stockholm towards Skara. With hard work we do fill up diesel, dealers are off the main road. At midnight and a half to find a stop, with other campers and caravans, alongside a lake, we Vargarda. Dinner and then immediately read.
521 Km 3.5 h by ferry.

Monday 24.07.95
After breakfast out of the camper came the ducks that we have breakfast with bread. Departure at 8.30am to visit the castle of Lack, mount Kinne Kull and the Cistercian monastery of Varnhem.
The castle is a large entrance and paecheggio SK 320 with a visit to the castle. It has a living room with original portraits of the characters described in their character with Latin mottoes, angels hanging from the ceiling and manicured gardens with rose perfume.
Reaching Kinne Kull where we stop for lunch in a place close to the houses and an old church. Doing a tour of the houses we see in a garden, the classic on the house for children to play.
Then we reach the lookout. Climb the tower in the middle of the park consists of forest interspersed with lava flows still very visible. (SK 5) Arriving at the top of a deluge bursts: see all that rain from the forest, in absolute silence is wonderful.
Also because in the space of 10 minutes the rain had left the place in the sun. The lava formations near Lake Vänern are real roads percorrerre walk. Along the trail vedimao engravings on the stones commemorating the visits of various kings and queens of Sweden in this place.
Then return to Skara to visit the church of Varnhem. In the central nave is the tomb of King Birger Jarl (1266) founder of Stockholm. Interesting excavation of the convent.
Return the road to the north, at 19.30 we can make oil just off a stretch of highway and shortly after, following the signs to parking for caravans we stop at a yard in the country near a lake.
444 Km

Tuesday 25.07.95
At 8 for Falun who reached the 10th Guided tour of the copper mine: visit the museum and the mine itself, with cape and helmet. S0i descends into the bowels of the earth and visit the mines used again recently. The red color of the houses is from sato own iron: the paint, due to the abundance of the mineral was subsidized by the state and cost much less than other colors.
Rättvik around in a tourist promotion, we stop for lunch. A Rättvik visit the church in a beautiful location that the bride kneeling. In the gardens on a promontory, is the monument to Gustav Vasa in 1520 that liberated Sweden from the Danes.
Mora to reach 14, we find a campsite near the city, which is a small tourist center with many shops. In the afternoon do a sightseeing tour. The red horse engraved in wood in these areas is processed, is the symbol of Sweden.
237 Km

Wednesday 26.07.95
Today is a day of transfer to the north of Sweden. We leave the camp at 8.30am and we head towards the coast to Söderhamn, beautiful road between the pine forests with wide views on forests, with beautiful panoramic Sali and downs. The coastal road is the most moving, touching Sundsvall, Umeå and Luleå. Stop for dinner in an area near the sea beach. From Luleå abandon the Baltic Sea and we head towards the North Sea and Norway. A Boden, in the city, in the yard of a supermarket, we stop to sleep.
903 Km

Thursday 27.09.95
The night is without the sun begins to be difficult to sleep. When we do the supermarket spending. Leaving from Boden 10. In Jokkmokk we visit the church and the market Lapp acquistatiamo shoes "moffinose" with fur. Dividing the road to take Kiruna, with the mines of iron. Brief stop here at the tourist office of tourism have a lot of material free of incredible quality, so I took a robbery almost every respect "the" of Northern Europe for the album. It is for several kilometers along the lake, but beautiful campsite for tents only. Then the camp Björkliden renowned ski resort, a place very scenic mountains. We finished the Swedish krona and we were able to pay in the Norwegian currency
507 Km

Friday 28.07.95
Today is scheduled to arrive at Lofoten. Departure at 9. The short trip from the campground to the North Sea requires us all morning, for the photo stops along the way: the Alps and the lakes of the national park dell'Abisko are wonderful. We have reached Norway. At lunch in a place near the sea that seems to do a tropical brief stop for lunch. To leave the road to head towards the north to the Lofoten.
The Travel Diary of the nation continues with Norway