Berling Hotel Karlstad

... little bubba is teething like no tomorrow. But overall he has been such a great little baby to travel with. He seems to like the van and knows that despite an initial grizzle when he sits in his car seat that its time to sleep. He is one happy camper baby! :) <br><br>To finish the day sat beside our van with our sleeping baby and supping on a 7% beer, looking out over the lake with a nice sunset, we think we heard a woodpecker high up in the pine trees. Off to give the little one a bath.

After a very cold night in the van with temperatures dropping to 10 degrees it did mean that the clear skies of the day before had brought with it a gorgeous sunrise with just a couple of clouds. Funny, I used to always struggle to get out of bed to check out sunrises, and now with Jasper its quite a regular occurence!<br><br>So after a lie in, we took in the serenity as you might say!Thats for you Sashy! The ...

... in the Tanum region are a Unesco world heritage site. There are over 3000 petroglyphs across 100 panels located across 5 distinct areas along a 25 km stretch and Vitlycke is the centre of the area and the Vitlyckehall is the largest flat rock of nordic bronze age petroglyphs in Scandinavia. The drawings depicts boats, elk, humans, birds, weapons and scenes of everyday life. Carved from about 1500- 500 BC, and about 3000 years ago this area was actually by the sea shore ...

... there, we crossed to Djurgården to visit the Aquarium (www.aquaria.se). It was pretty small, but hosted a great rain forest and a pair of healthy looking black tip reef sharks. From there we continued to the Vasa museum (www.vasamuseet.se) which houses the buccaneer style ship Vasa. She was finished in 1628, and on her maiden voyage, sank before ever making it out of Stockholm harbor. After 333yrs, she was salvaged and reconstructed. The museum ...

For the past two nights I have been staying in Karlstad, about an hour by bus from Kristinehamn where I was camping. While here though I have been staying at a youth hostel close to the town centre. It was quite a sterile and empty place, and was obviously some kind of prison or military barracks in past days. The guy that runs the place must have been left over from those times as well. I'm wondering where all the tourists and happy holiday makers have gone, obviously it's back ...

... years old. thats quite old. Other than that I have been relaxing and enjoying the quaintness and pretty old town feel and cheap food... I can afford to eat again! There is a big event on here which has just started today, the annual go-kart races which go for four days. They race around the main town square with the finish line right outside the tourist office where I am now. I ...

... our Sweden through the groupstage, where it all came to an end, but our trip had just started and we went on to explore other parts of europe for 16 days. The countries we paid a visit were Italy, France, Spain, England and Scotland. My next trips will be a cruise to the finnish town Åbo and about 2 weeks later Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas. 'til I return!

19 minutes past midnight and we are leaving Karlstad by a bus that is taking us to Örebro, where we'll change to another bus that will take us to Stockholm Skavsta Airport in Nyköping. In about 17 hours we'll hopefully be in Innsbruck in some pub or fan-area where we can view the game between Sweden and Spain.

We have been living on an island for almost a month now. Today we woke up to 4C and thought that the time had come to leave. We still don't know if we are selling our hose in Florida NEXT week or not. I think realtors (real estate agents) are the tru evil on earth! How much pure **** can come out of ones mouth and still nothing happens?

... home it was time for the kids to go over to their Mom's place for the week. We followed them so we could stay a few days with their mom Helena. She had the most adorable house, with bedrooms out of an ikea catalog. Both of the houses we stayed at in Karlstad had heated tiles in the bathrooms and heated towel racks. Sweden can be very cold and dark in the winter so sometimes this is what gets you out of bed in the morning ...