Clarion Collection Hotel Packhuset Kalmar

We went to the glass factories today. We started in Nybro at Pukeberg (I know we giggled about that name too...it's really pronounced 'pook-a-burg') Glassworks (or glasbruks in Swedish.) This is a small glass factory with a museum and shop. There was no work happening because it was Sunday, so we will stop again for a short time tomorrow. We made a circle, stopping at Orrefors and Kosta. These were larger businesses. Kosta started in 1742, the ...

... of varying types and colors in the pastures. We also saw sheep and goats. There were a lot of piled stone fences that were amazing. It makes me wonder how long it took to build and how much work it was. They look like they took centuries to build. There are lots of blooming flowers and trees, lots of apple trees in bloom. Here and in Malmo there were many blooming lilac bushes, hedges of them, all colors.

... nge och väl efter den Hilldoffska familjegraven, initialt utan resultat. Betydligt enklare när vi letade på rätt kyrkogård... Tände gravljus och styrde sedan kosan mot Stockholm via korta utflykter till först Ölandsbrons fäste och sedan McDonalds utanför Nyköping. 40 mil senare framme i Huddinge och tedrickning med familjen. Dagens drink: Ekologisk lättmjölk och Coca-Cola

Hei då, sier svensken. Nå har vi vært på staden og intatt byen for siste gang. Campinglivet er slik at vi er fullt oppdatert hvortid folk går på do, spiser, eller går og bader. Vi har full oversikt over alt, også når naboens hund gneldrer. Naboen som kom i går med sin fru, var en skikkelig pedant. Men det ser ut som vi ...

Da var nesten alle kluter og håndduker skitne og vasking stod på programmet. Med lomma full av 5-kroner drog vi iveg til vaskeriet med paser og kasser med klær. Etter hvert fikk vi igang 3 maskiner med vask. Det var den kapasiteten vaskeriet hadde. Køen var ikke så lang som ventet på tur. Alt ble hengt opp rundt campingvogna og etter noen timer var alt tørt. En vellykket dag med etterfølgende tur på byen

I dag bestemte vi å ta handletur til Kalmar. Først tok vi peiling på Hobby-forhandleren for å kompletere noe småtterier i campingen. Etterpå dro vi inn til sentrum hvor vi parkerte på jernbanestasjonen og gikk rundt. Trivelig by. Dro tilbake til campingen på ettermiddagen og koste oss resten av dagen.

I dag var tiden inne for Slottabesøk hos den Svenske kongen som like ved campingplassen. På Solliden Slott er han og familien hele sommeren. Vi dro dit og tok en kopp kaffe på slottshavens kafe hvor det også var utendørs barnedåp med prest og ...

Off the boat and onto the bus to Stockholm's train station. I missed the 10:15 train to Kalmar so there were two choices - the 10:40 train, which had really ****** connections, or the 12:20, in which case I could probably try and have some more of that fish soup ... I haven't been too keen on Sweden, so I decided to take the 10:40. I thought I would like Stockholm more, but so far Oslo has been the highlight of Scandinavia.
Kalmar, Småland and Blekinge, Sweden pwong

... A guitar was provided. On the bus journey from Vickleby -> Eketorp -> Ottenby -> Salve (Kalmar) there were many different songs sung in different languages. When we ate at the medieval town of Salve (in Kalmar), there too was also music, song and dance. We could also try to play a horn, bag pipes and nearly everyone tried to play a Rummelpott (a friction drum). We also met some chickens, wild pigs, and goats at Eketorp.

I finally jumped on a Swebus to Kalmar on the opposite coast of Sweden. I arrived at 9pm and had a long walk before I managed to find a place to camp for the night. Amid huge winds I spent most of the night thinking that tree branches were going to fly through my tent as they creaked (reminder to myself: don't pitch up under huge logs of wood in high ...