On
our last update we were heading to Norway expecting it to take two days, we
made it in one. Mainly as the weather was
not that great so it made a good day for driving.
The first camp choice was in the middle of Oslo however it
was not taking any campervans or caravans only tents due to soft grounds, so
Tommy (who is now called Simon after we changed the voice when Daryl commented
on having two woman telling him what to do all the time) directed us to another
camp some 7 km away.
In the wet we were lead up to the tent area and what do you
know told to camp right beside another VW Kombi with a tweedy bird on the
front, yes Larry, Loralee and Piolin Brown – the USA team we meet in Siena,
Italy.
They welcomed us with G&T’s then generously shared their
evening meal also, it was a great catch up and only happened as they had clutch
problems and were getting a replacement cable fitted the next day.
Oslo, Norway was very pretty and the sun came up to play for
us. The sculptures were fantastic and we
enjoyed wandering around the city. The
prices at restaurants at lunch time drove us to the Max burger bar instead
where two buggers with drinks cost nearly NZD45!!!
From there we cruised back to Sweden to a wee place called
Trollhatten. We visited the locks on
Sunday morning to discover that they were going to open in about 10 minutes,
what a fantastic site to see, the water filling (about 10 m depth to make up),
the 8 boats, mainly yachts going in and securing themselves with poles and
ropes to the sides, then the gate closing, the water draining and then they
were off, the entire process took less than 30 minutes.
Next stop was a shopping centre as our beloved Warehouse
double electric hob finally died on us in Oslo.
We searched appliance stores, housewares’ stores and finally the best to
be found was in good old Coop.
We spent Sunday lunch and most of the afternoon at Pia,
Morgan and family’s home in Sollebrunn.
They put on a huge spread for lunch, let us use their washing machine to
catch up on much needed washing and generally entertained us.
Sunday night was spent in a wee camp in Varsberg.
Today we set sail for Copenhagen crossing the Oresund
Bridge, the journey was mainly in the rain.
We drove through the centre of Copenhagen on our way to our camp and
realised we were driving right past our ‘must see’ in Copenhagen, the little
mermaid. We stopped and got her photo,
then decided to carry on across Denmark.
We are now camped in Nyborg, Denmark on the coastline
looking at the Great Belt Bridge (12.9m) , that we crossed earlier.Today was an
expensive day toll-wise Danish $540 (NZD approx. $120) to cross the two massive
bridges.
Haven’t set tomorrow’s plan of action out as yet. Now it’s time for dinner.
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