Monday 27 June – Eidvolls to Gotteborg (Gothenburg)

Peacefull night – the planes stopped about 11.00 pm – and a fine bright warm day. After breakfast discovered that a coach had just emptied its toilet all over the service point and Terry went to remonstrate with the German woman driver, who didn't seem to be bothered. Managed to avoid the worst to get ours done, but Terry is quite surprised because German coach drivers are usually very professional.

Back onto the E6 and called in for fuel at the next available, which for a change turned out to be the cheapest we've seen in Norway. It would have been cheaper still in Sweden but the red warning light was on............ Gave Bertie a tankful of the super diesel again but I don't think it's doing much good for our problem (although fuel consumption has noticeably improved).

Approaching Oslo it started to rain and coupled with the road works and very busy traffic it was not a particularly pleasant transit; we saw little of Norways' capital city but to be fair we're not city people and again our Rough Guide didn't give us much inspiration. Maybe another time.

Once clear of Oslo the road was motorway pretty much all the way to the border with not a lot to see and we only slowed briefly as we crossed. The E6 is European road numbered so we stuck with it into Sweden and shortly stopped for a lunch break on a rest area. A little further on we stopped again, this time for a supermarket to replenish our supplies; we could have done it earlier but shopping is cheaper in Sweden, viz all the Norwegian registered cars in the carpark.

More motorway, but with thoughts of our overnight stop we diverted off to investigate three likely looking campsites, with a view to maybe stopping a couple of nights. In the end we did not like the look of any of them so returned to the motorway to head for Gotteborg, which offered several ideas including a dedicated motorhome park. But once again roadworks took a hand and completely flummoxed TomTom who got us onto a building site and then went round in circles! Even Autoroute was having apoplexy so we just tried to get back onto a main road somewhere and eventually TomTom got his act together and took us to the parking area.

Which was full! (include here you're own profanity!) However there was a large carpark adjacent where several motorhomes had decided to stop so we joined them. A lot cheaper than the motorhome park too. The only niggle is as I write this there is some kind of rock concert going on nearby (it sounds rubbish); hopefully it won't go on too late.

Lots of bridges - this was a particularly nice one.