Lilla Hotellet Orebro

... of these fish recipes from her before I forget). Yesterday we drove around Siljansjö, which is a large lake and then checked out the town of Mora and went to a Dalicarlian wooden horse factory. Most of the rest of the time we've been hiking around the area and enjoying scrumptious pastries. So soon my journey will be coming to a close as I return to NY. I hope you all enjoyed my travel blog!

... me down of the hippy trip I discovered another rust hole in the floor plan just on the foot step up into the drivers side cabin.
Lizzie made an intereswting observation, we seem to be the only campers with a "hippy van"....in other words, we don't see any other real campers (either type T1/2, T25 or T4's). They all seem to be the retiree type vans or caravan and car set-ups.
So Lizzie writes, we drove to Karlstad which is the capital of Varmland. A nice city by the lake and ...

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!

So after a lie in, we took in the serenity as you might say!Thats for you Sashy! The ...

... although I am not sure if this was the original intent of the old Swedish rock carver dudes or this is just done to make it look all the more spectacular. Funnily though the colour used is the same "Swedish Ochre" colour that is used to paint all rural buildings (houses, barns, etc). There was even a 40ft shipping container in Fiskebacksil that was disguised with wood panelling and corrigated iron roof that was painted in this Swedish Ochre to make it blend in.

The rock ...

The opening of the Ung 7 exhibition at Örebro University Art Hall is on Monday Aug 31 at 15:00, see Vernissage Designutställning UNG7 Read about the Plasticks concept on http://www.jennylundgren.se/portfolio/p lasticks/

... we were unable to open the door. Thankfully, because there was a power outage and if we had gotten in the elevator we would probably be there the rest of our vacation! We managed to lug all of our 4 suitcases down the stairs and out to the Europa mobile and head out to Lennart and Lilo's house looking forward to a good Scandinavian home cooked lunch. Only to arrive and find out they too had no electricity. All of us disappointed headed out to a ...

... s) apple tree we walked across the street to the Orebro Slott (castle), where King Gustuve XI came to visit. The Castle has been used as a prison, a military compound, a royal castle in the 14th and 15th centuries and the Swedish parliament was even convened a few times in days gone byand it now houses the parliment. Then on to Wadkoping where they rebuilt several homes from the 18th century. We bought a few knickknacks and walked around Wadkoping and had a ...

... Alfred Nobel was an inventor, humanist, brilliant business man. His most inventions were safe explosives, the most notable being dynamite. Nobel’s last will and testament was legally ratified at the district court of Karlskoga which set up the perpetual Foundation.

The museum was most interesting Alfred Nobel played by an actor conducts the tour of the home and about his life in the first person. It is ...

... about unity and how various groups of similar beliefs can work together.

Off to Sweden! The countryside is so enjoyable to view and really reminds me so much of typical Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Our bus was pulled over at the Norway – Sweden border. I thought these borders were wide open. Well, there was a border check with custom officials. Three custom officials got on our bus, one a woman ...

We leave Stokholm to go to Örebro, a quiet city in the middle of Sweden with a nice medieval castle and an enormous and very green camping vhere we stay for 2 nights....Örebro is also the home town of Millencolin, and it's a good reason to come here...!!!