We started our day with a trip to the castle in Wernigerode (Verner-ger-road-ah).  We followed the signs leading to the Schloss (castle) and found it easily . We must have been early because we easily got a carpark within close walking distance to the castle.  We later noticed that you could park your car in the city and get a motorised train ride or horse and carriage up...

Up early and ready to go and we got to enjoy a lovely buffet breakfast at the hotel in a bright and sunny breakfast room.  The last time we ate out for breakfast was when we stayed at the hotel in Flensburg, Germany; this was much nicer.  On the road to Hannover first and from my reading, the best thing to see was the Herrenhauser Garten.  We plugged in the details directly...

We all enjoyed a sleep in until 9am and then had to move fast to eat breakfast and pack up so we could check out at 10am.  We weren’t planning to see anything inparticular in Hamburg so we sat in the car and did a drive around the city.  Along the water’s edge there was a lot of activity and we realised they were starting to set up the streets for a triathlon that was going...

Next morning we awoke to pouring rain.  I have never been so glad to be in a tiny cabin in my life!  It would have been an absolute nightmare to wake up in the tent and try to pack up camp in the driving rain.  It really was quite relentless and even packing things into the car was difficult (for Steve!) I had other jobs to do as part of renting the cabin such as sweeping,...

Goodbye Sweden. Hello Denmark.  We set off from Kinney’s house with no destination in mind.  We were planning to stay somewhere in Denmark overnight and then meet my friend Gitte and her family the following night and stay at their house.  We headed back over the massive bridge system that links Sweden and Denmark and made it to Nyborg for lunch.  The bridge that links two...

Our Swedish road trip was coming to an end.  We packed up the Vaxjo campsite and headed back to Kinney’s house in Horby.  Before we left the Vaxjo area we had to pop into the castle (slott) just down the road called Kronosberg Slott.  It weren’t able to go into the castle but we had a look from the outside.

We made it to Horby for lunch. It was great to see everyone...

Before leaving to drive to Vaxjo (Vek-sher), on our last morning in Falkenberg, I checked our email and discovered the fax we thought we had sent to Spain regarding our accommodation had not worked. So we set about faxing it again from the camp ground and crossed our fingers that it would work this time.

We had another short day of driving to the Evedal Campsite just 5 km...

Following our lovely weekend in Hono Island, we packed up and moved camp down the west coast of Sweden to Falkenberg.  We chose this spot because it wasn’t a long drive from Gotenburg and guide book indicated that the camp facilities were good.  We were pretty happy with our choice of location with only a 5 minute walk to the beach and equal distance to the local ICA...

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We woke to find everything in the tent survived the night without getting wet even though we’d had more rain overnight.  We packed up camp; spent some time on the internet at the campground office (where it worked best) to book some of our upcoming travel. Finally we hit the road to Gotenburg.  We didn’t have too far to drive and we made it to Gotenburg for lunch.  After...