Ramada Hotel Corallen Oskarshamn

... held early August of every year.

It has been a very relaxing time here. Coming from Brussels and Berlin, I immediately felt calm and stress-free when I saw the sea. This is a very beautiful place and I highly recommend it for a relaxing vacation. It does take some effort to get here tho. I have had a wonderful time visiting with Lena; riding bikes, sharing meals, talking about our lives/parents/children/lovelives,having coffee, and swimming in the sea. Tusen takk. (I know it's ...

... did not even ask the price of the room. We grabbed the small overnight stay prepared suitcase and headed for the elevator. Arriving on the 12th floor of a perfectly round hallway, in a perfectly round hotel. We opened the door and were amazed that they could fit a double sized bed into the room, say nothing about the double murphy bed on the wall! It must be where the Swedish Trolls stay, because that's all it was big enough for! The ...

... really strange walking around in there, you could just touch everything, there were barely any blockades and there were no signs telling you what you could and couldn't do. There were even old decorative peices just lying on the ground, just waiting to be picked up and taken away. The most surprising thing was that there were actually unblocked staircases, so you could climb up scarily narrow, steep stairs and around inside the ruin. This ...

... of fun.

Then it was finally time to catch the bus to Nynäshamn and a short bus ride later we were on the boat and ready to go to Gotland. The sea was kind of rough on the way there, making the boat kind of shaky, to the point where it was kind of hard to walk around. I was a little confused watching the safety video, it said that the alarm that would go off in case of emergency would consist of seven short and one long. All I could think was "could you possibly ...

... er så like og samtidig ulike. På vaskerommet traff jeg ei jølsterjente, verden er ikke så stor, men vi begge glade for at vi ikke møtte så mange norske på Campingen. Nå skal vi ha middag og etterpå skal forteltet ned slik at vi kan komme i veg i morgen tidlig. Da skal vi på "High Chaparral" hvor kryttrøyken ligger tett. -Bente

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 har vi kjørt bare 230 km, men vi har kjørt gjennom Glassriket som inneholder et 15 tals glassblåserhytter og utsalg av glass og serviser. Vi kan anbefale Strømbergshyttan som ligger intill rigsveg 25 til Kalmar, men pass på at du får de rabattene som ...

... trotz andauerndem Regen nicht nehmen. Nach dem Frühstück brechen wir auf nach Oskarshamn ins Döderhultar-Museum. Hier sind über 200 Skulpturen des Holzschnitzers Axel Petersson, geboren in der Gemeinde Döderhult, ausgestellt. Nach Fish & Chips und der längsten Bank der Welt (haha!) fahren wir zurück zu Anna's Wohnung in Jönköping.

... a long weekend. I wish my hotel would have closed for a long weekend. So then we walked over to the train station to see if they had any times. Would you believe that they have a train station with tracks but no trains actually go there anymore. So there we were, stranded in this small town with no idea of how to get out of town. We walked back to the ferry station and asked the ticket girl and she said that there was a bus to Berga and then we could take the train to Linkoping and then ...

... Pahr, into a magnificent Renaissance palace. During the Kalmar War (1611-1613) the building was very severely damaged, and when King Charles X Gustaf was to start the repair work, he appointed Nicodemus Tessin the Elder to rebuild the castle into a Baroque palace. It was begun in 1652 but towards the end of the 17th century the work gradually came to a standstill and was ...