Carlton Hotel Karlstad

... against a backdrop of geriatrics who have spend their entire pension fund on a massive (non brand specific) Winnnebago. To complete the hippy make-over we finally adhered the sparkly "Purple Ohm" sticker (purchased last year in Ibiza) to the back of the van this afternoon next to the number plate. This complements the Green Earth sticker and the Toro sticker (that I suspect Sime and Sal put on her when they were travelling around Spain in Alahabama Whirlygig....aka Madam). To ...

... by american cars with more corvettes than we have ever seen<br>* The stars here are gorgeous<br>* Camping isn't as cheap as other countries but overall Sweden isn't as expensive as everyone seems to think<br>* The swedish language isnt too hard to pick up the basics, very similar words to german and english. It must like english be derived from Indo - Germanic.<br>* there are lots of cute little birdys everywhere

... 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 ...

... lie down, and come on command) for tolerating the chaos. Good luck with the new feeding schedule and banging on the table.<br><br>To wrap up our stay in Sweden, we decided it would be easier to get to the airport from Stockholm which gave us an excuse to visit. We took a bus into town, and had about half a day to see everything. We walked through Gamla Stan, which is the &#8216;old town.&#8217; It is almost all pedestrian traffic and cute shops ...

... for a second time. boring now! The highlight of the night was actually talking to the Swedish guy who sat next to me at the concert, we had a good chat about the history and whatnot of the Karlstad/Kristinehamn area and similarities between Norway-Sweden relations and NZ-Aus relations. I was jealous that he lived in Sweden. Back to Norway now. In truth I'm not exactly thrilled about this, but I think getting out of the cities will be a good idea so this is my intention! cheers, -mike

I was so desperate to get out of Norway. Everyone is so stressed and serious in Oslo, and the cost of everything is way too high. So I took a train to Sweden where I will stay for a week before I go back to Norway (but I dont want toooo). I am staying at an empty campground by a large lake in a small town called Kristinehamn. I'm here because Lene is having another concert in a city ...

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?

... Some of us went there in search of a free toilet. 5SEK was needed to enter. I wanted to pay to go in but was stopped by the stingy Malaysian man who purposely strolled slowly in order to avoid paying, asked me if it was free. I answered nope and pretended to walk away. The Malaysian foursome upon learning toilets were not free adopted this shameless parasitic tactic to avoid paying. The rest of us in the group would share the cost or take turns paying ...