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We only have a short trip to make, so we decide to pay a visit to Malmö, a colourful and cheerful town. The weather is nice while we take a walk through the town and sit for a while at an outdoor café.
Sweden - part I
Elisabeth & Teije2004-03-06 16:59:55
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Sunday, June 16, we arrive in Sweden
Soon we pass the Øresund-bridge and we arrive in Sweden, the first time for Elisabeth, so that's another country on her growing list.
We only have a short trip to make, so we decide to pay a visit to Malmö, a colourful and cheerful town. The weather is nice while we take a walk through the town and sit for a while at an outdoor café.
Walking back to the car we see this amazing phone box: it still functions!
But we are here to see more of Sweden and we continue on our way to the north. Soon we find out that this 'barest' part of Sweden already has a lot of woods. On our map we see there is a castle near lake Bolmen, Piksborg, and we love castles, so we drive towards it. The surroundings are beautiful, but no trace of a castle, not even a ruin! Only a sign indicating the castle was build in the beginning of the 14th century and was destroyed totally a few decades later.
Our destination is Jälluntofta, 50 km. south of Jönköping and we have plenty of time to drive around aimlessly, enjoying the sceneries.
And one then sometimes walks (or drives) into the nicest unexpected things, like this wooden bell tower, standing apart from the church.
At the beginning of the evening we arrive at the camping of Jälluntofta which also has some log cabins.
The cabin turns out much better than we had expected: we counted on cabins without electricity or water. This one has both!
There is also a refrigerator, a hot plate and it has a lot of space. We don't think every cabin will be as luxurious as this one (although it would be very nice).
The location is also great: from our porch we have a magnificent view over the lake and the setting sun. We wonder how often we will see a sunset on this trip, probably not too many.
Earlier on the day, we had discovered that
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