Svenstavik - 17 June 2018

Geoff

A wet day. It rained most of today. We made a late start around 11am and motored up the E45. It was pleasant enough with very little traffic. I don't know if the fact that it was a Sunday made a difference. I don't think we saw any lorries at all; plenty of motor homes. 

At one point, in an area of cleared forest, I think I caught sight of a solitary reindeer. We stopped in Sveg and spent some time in a Dollar Store, quite an emporium selling almost everything at discount prices. 

We arrived in Svenstavik some time after 3pm and decided to stop here tonight. It's a camperstop in a dedicated tarmac area in the main street with a good ICA supermarket just across the road. There are about a dozen units here with reasonable facilities - electric hookups, a loo, WC emptying but no showers. It's fine for one night. 

Amanda 

The most exciting event of the day was realising that we have clocked up 1000 miles since we left home last Monday! Although making contact with children and grandchildren was good too. Otherwise it was really just a case of driving on up the E45 through the rain which has persisted all day!

When we woke this morning there were armies of midges gathered on the other side of the mozzie blinds. I think they were sheltering from the rain under the half open side roof lights. A few had managed to get in, and the rest were clearly looking for the first opportunity, fortunately they seemed to give up after a while and went off, presumably to bother someone else.

We stopped at Sveg, where the best attraction we could locate was a Dollar Store, so fun was had searching for bargain useful things that wouldn't take up space. We realised that we had forgotten the lesson we learned last trip, to make for a Tourist Information Office to gather info on local places of interest. Because of the change which allows use of phone contract call, text and  data allowances, we have not needed to locate TIOs regularly to download the paper and emails. We had completely forgotten that they have a useful main function! We shall remedy the situation, in order to supplement the info in Wild Scandinavia and Lonely Planet. 

We are parked up for the night in a Camperstop by the station in Svenstavik, and have done our first proper shop in the excellent supermarket across the road. The two Dutch vans which shared our Camperstop last night are here as well. We will probably come across them again and again as they have similar route plans to our own.

It is still raining.