Campsites,Sweden

From Helsingor we were advised to take a certain road to Lake Vatern, because of the view, but it was so rainy and cloudy we could have saved the time and effort. But once we arrived we found the very good campsite, and the scenery the next morning was as advertised.

Both years we visited Stockholm we stayed in an excellent campsite near the Bredang, Tunnelbana (subway), an “above-ground” subway station. Stockholm is built on a huge rock! At many places there are huge boulders sticking out of the ground, and the subway tunnel is often just natural rock. I enjoyed the sauna. One day Emmy rested, while I toured by myself.

The ferry from Vasa, Finland, arrived in Sundsvall after dark. The campsite was closed for the season, and the hotel was sold out for the night. The woman at the hotel desk in Sundsvall, invited us to camp in the hotel parking lot, which we did, and it was fine. We prefer the camper to a hotel room.

We stopped at a campsite in Kristianstad in early afternoon. It was raining and cloudy and Emmy was tired. She slept for over two hours this afternoon. The campsite is run by the city and is open on a help-yourself basis. A man came around in the evening to collect some money, but not much. The facilities were nice and there was electricity.

We arrived at what appeared to be a closed-for-the-season campsite at 6:00 PM, then found the office was open to collect money between 2:00 and 5:00 PM. It’s a good location, in Oskarshamn, right on the coast of the Baltic Sea. I visited the local sauna in the evening, and the men were disappointed Emmy wasn’t with me. We both spent the evening at the home of Bengt and Eva, next door. We had met Bengt on the pier in the Baltic, and I met him again at the sauna.

We easily found the campsite in Goteborg, and the ducks came, in the rain, to the camper for Emmy’s stale bread. How did they know she was there, the word must get around from country to country, and from campsite to campsite. She finds customers for the stale bread, everywhere. It rained during the night, and still more in the morning. We drove around town for a while intending to catch the 1:00 PM boat to Denmark, but it was still raining, and we did not find a reason to stay past the 9:30 AM ferryboat.