Trip to Cape North 2004 - Part 1 and 4

JOURNEY IN CAMPER up to North Cape

Motorhome: Mobilvetta Euroyact 180 / X


Crew: Charles - Driver 66 years
Tina - Browsers 62 years
Princess - Persian cat 17 years
Sketch - Cat Europe 13 years

 

0/691 - Autogrill Highway - Wurzburg

Traffic in Austria has been intense but smooth.
After paying the cartoons to Tarvisio, the linesman on the second ticket (€ 9.50 has increased since last year) wanted to see the registration certificate did not believe that my half was 35 q.li gross, actually weighed at the start was 43, but it says 35 and could not say anything
GERMANY
Oil: € 0.92 - 0.94 - 0.91 to lt.
queues and delays before and after Monaco and many ongoing tasks for rebuilding roads.

22/1385 - Maribo - cloudy - parking along the lake

Quiet night, except for drivers Estonians who talked late into the night
672/1363 Puttgarden
Today the transfer until boarding was monotonous and less comfortable than yesterday, the highway went through woods and forests in the hills, flowing and intense on the left going south, traffic jams near Hamburg, still work in progress at various points Hamburg before and after the highway is still in concrete and that continuous jolt through the fault of the joints is particularly annoying
Ferry
Puttgarden / Rodby .30 min € 126
Boarding after the ticket, including the part Helsingorg / Helsimborg, we waited only 10 min. and we boarded the ferry was almost empty.
It could save further by A / R, but we prefer to make the bridge from Malmo to return, will cost more 'but we want to see this new bridge
Looking for a place for the night and found a Maribo kajakclub at the lakeside, at 20 pulling a light breeze and a girl was taking a bath, we saw after that was in the company of other children / eec 'were so many bottles empty beer

74/1651 - Bastad - parking near the cemetery - 140 sek

192/1577 - 83 Helsimborg - covered wind
visit to: Downtown - Karnan - The Church of Sankt Maria - City Hall - Park Fredriksdal - Parking page. port
The number you see next to the name of the country or city is the page for the book Green TCI

Tina went to the Customs to report the importation of cats, all documents and various medical examinations were regular, two stamps and away our fear was that there was some bureaucratic mistake we will not continue the trip and instead Everything went well.
On disembarking, before the exit near the tourist office, there is a nice car park, from there you can easily walk to visit the center and the rest
When you start, you miss something and it happened again this time: the cable connection from your digital camera to your PC, the first computer store I will purchase a card reader, 390 kr (43 €) to the scalar bugget already small, with the rumblings of his wife.

Bastad deserves an exit from the highway to visit this country, beautiful houses with flower gardens, the botanical garden is a marvel, like many of our gardens on Lake Maggiore or other
For the night we are in a parking authorization, to the campers, but with a ban on overnight, hopefully good!! We were accompanied by a camper Belgian unity is strength ....
In services of this car park I managed to download with a bowl

181/1832 - 119 Goteborg - cloudy - Camping Karralund 235 sek

Up at 7.30, it rains hard, I wanted to empty the tanks since last night we had a shower, but I give up.
Rain and wind along the highway 4 lanes wide with very good background, supplies are not always reported to the sides of the highway, I caught a 6 km away, cmq me to make a way to go, and one for fall, very nice by the sea.
Arrived in Gothenburg with a bright sun, we stopped at Camping Karralund, beautiful well-equipped with C / S, CCI card is worth nothing here, we have issued a "Scandinavian card" that will give us discounts also several camps and more. Then we would realize that in Norway is not worth anything and is not required, in Sweden, by contrast, is required and the discount is automatic.
To visit the city take the tram line No. 5, leaving the campsite, after 12 stops you in the center. Who has kids can go to the amusement park at the 6th stop
After you wander around the streets and squares, the fish market we bought shrimp, fresh and cheap, Tina return them boiled and cleaned, I made a mayonnaise and we ate them there in defiance of the Germans and Dutch we observed eating canned

293/2155 - Oslo - sunny / cloudy - Camping Ekeberg - 39 nok

30/1862 118 Fjällbacka
Wake up at 7 starting at 8 am opening of the reception, after having downloaded and uploaded the waters.
This night was very cold (14 °) and we lit the stove.
The road coming up to Uddevalla then on the old two-lane road, will resume in Norway
During the trip, Tina, reading the green booklet of TCI, has seen an interesting little town, we went to exit the highway Fjällbacka, narrow but very interesting, through forests of oak and birch trees, then along the sea we came to a country characteristic of fishermen stuck in a small fjord.

CONTINUE ON "Trip to Cape North 2004" Part Four

148/7047 - Antnas - sunny / cloudy - Autogrill parking

Continued from "Trip to Cape North 2004" Part One

138/6932 00 Haparanda Border
E75 continues to the border, then becomes the top E4 wide, but with the ailing fund, then to improve and hopefully last until Lulea to Stockholm
Now we're stuck in a kind of Autogrill, but with vending machines, there is none.

348/7395 - Ornoskoldsvik - sunny - parking before bridge

115/6595 - Skelleftea - cloudy / rain - Bella town - P. 10 sek
Last night I had a toothache, the first town we stopped to look for a pharmacy, we found it and at the same time it has visited the city, modern and nice, the center closed to cars with many shops, joy of my wife and I think all women, also various supermarkets where we stocked of the occurrence, attention: you pay to park even supermarkets

48/7807 - 00 Sigtuna - sunny

56/7451 - Sundvall - only visit to Downtown
308/7759 72 Uppsala - sun - Visit to Gamla Uppsala - wooden Museum - Cathedral - Cathedral with bell wooden
Today, finally, we made a real highway from 110 hours
In Uppsala after visiting the cathedral, we stopped at a Swedish restaurant and have dinner, quite good, I ate meat and fish Tina, spent 600 kr, the return camper I ate milk and cookies ... ... .... Hungry
Uppsala leaving the first village we stopped and parked for the night.
Unfortunately, the lot was next to a pub with loud music and shouting and I still with a toothache, we have moved towards the railway station, a place much more comfortable here, I realized that it was dark, there was the Midnight Sun ... ... we are back to normal, tell the truth than 24 hours continuous light on 24, I was annoyed, I am used to sleep in the dark.

70/7916 - 34 Stockholm - rainy / sunny - A/A Langholmen - 380 sek 2 gg.

39/7846 - 56 Skokloster - rain - The most beautiful castles in Sweden
Early in the morning we went to Skokloster to admire the castle, go follow the E4, exit at Sigtuna Alanda right for the 363, when the cross-E18 right and follow signs, arrived, we realized that on Saturday opens at 12, after around under the water, we decided to leave, if we will return by boat from Stockholm.
Tired of traveling, we stopped at the first reported, a picnic area, a place squalid and ill-equipped and, in my opinion, very expensive.
Complete rest today, tomorrow first visit to the city, where we move to a campsite.

0/7916 - Stockholm - rainy - A/A

Boat tour of 2 hours - 320 sek
Royal Palace - 220 sek
Changing of the guard 13 hours
Walking away from the center after 1.5 kilometers from the A / A, first we settled down on a boat in two hours made us see Stockholm from the sea, very nice! to return after visiting the palace we have witnessed the changing of the guard, the change in itself was no different from many others already seen in other countries, the show was the band, hundreds of items, playing different gears, it exhibited changes in position and deployment, after they moved into a small square near the cathedral and continued to play upbeat music.
Stockholm, albeit in a gray and rainy day, we struck for his gaiety and movement.
City Hall - 100 sek
The Cathedral (Storkyrkan) - 80 sek
Vasa Ship Museum - 140 sek
Leave the A / A, we take the camper to a car park along the lake at the town hall, where other campers spent the night, having booked a visit to City Hall for the 11-drive in Italian, awaiting the visit Cathedral, 12 lunch and then took us to the parking lot of the Vasa.
The Vasa I had already seen 45 years ago, then there was only part of the hull wrapped in a cloud of steam to prevent it from drying after removing from the waters of the lake, now it's beautiful in all its grandeur and completeness.
After this visit we decided to return to Italy, we leave with regret the beautiful Stockholm, with a promise to come back and visit with more time, unfortunately, the fatigue you feel and most of all my teeth need a dentist.

200/8116 - along the E4 - piove - Autogrill parking

We stop in a parking lot from a distributor on the E4, after spending a little village.

20/8624 - along the E47 - sunny - Autogrill parking

460/8576 - 89 Malmo - park - visit the Old Town and the Town Hall
5 / 8581 - Oresund Bridge - sun - 560 SEK (€ 62.11)
Given the cost, equal to the ferry, I think it is better to make the bridge is faster and the show is seen from the bridge is magnificent.
Denmark
23/8604 - Copenhagen - sun

503/9409 - A7 highway - Autogrill parking

134/8758 - Rody - Ferry to Puttgarden - 30 min. - € 63
Germany
Diesel per lt. €. 0.98 - 0.95

766/10027 - E7 highway - Autogrill parking

Austria - Oil to lt. € 0.88
Vignette € 7.60 +9.50

136/10163 - Majano, home

Short stretch of highway and we're home