Best Western Gustaf Froding Hotel & Konferens Karlstad

Kenny writes:<br>Damn school kids woke us &amp; Jas up at 1.30am! Anyway they were just having fun ( and without Jas we probably would have joined them!) and eventually p*ssed off someplace else. Little bit cloudy morning but nonetheless still picturesque. We managed to get out of the camp site at a record 11.30 am this morning which could even be further improved upon given that this was a complete pack up including the van awning and the tent. I took the liberty to do a spot of ...

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 ...

Despite the 8.00 am kick out of bed we still didn't leave the campsite until 12.30. Eitherway the sun was in abundnance and not a cloud in the sky. We headed north planning to visit the 3000 year old rock carvings at Tanumshede. Small detour was needed off the motorway however as the van was very low on juice and the prospect of running out on the motorway was worrying. We pulled into a sleepy town called Rabbelshede luckily to find the only shop in town was a service station ...

... fish later in the week and he managed to catch a pike. We&#8217;ll eventually track down the photo for that one. <br><br>Friday was the annual mid-summer festival in Sweden. I think it is similar to solstice in the US. The towns in the country side have a big festival where people wear traditional dress and erect a large green 'stong&#8217; into the earth and dance around it. They also eat lots of excellent traditional food like pancakes with ...

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 ...

... away on Friday - boring I know. Its really great here, everyone is happy and Swedish, unlike the grumps in Norway. There are cycle paths everywhere and it seems like everyone rides a bike even old people. I have visited some older areas with cobbled streets and cycled (I have hired a bike) out to a rune stone in a farmers field, which is just like a memorial thing that is ...

Since i'm new to this kind of things so lets see how this ends up:) Right now i'm not out travelling, i'm sitting in my parents flat in central Karlstad where I just found this blog while playing Traveler IQ Challange on facebook, so i thought, what have i got to lose? Travelling is a big part of my life and so far i have seen very much, but there is still very much ...

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?

... amazing site...so beautiful. We went fishing there for a little while and Fredrick even caught a perch there on his first cast! :) We also went for a drive around some cute towns which was great. It was nice to have a relaxing time in Karlstad and spend some time 'just talking' rather than running around a big city. We also tried some Swedish chocolates and potato chips...yum! Swedish chocolate was my favourite of all!!! Then, after two days in Karlstad we headed for Stockholm.