A nice bright sunny
start, if not the warmest but as, latitude-wise, we're already north
of the Orkney Islands we must expect cooler nights! But it sooned
warmed up and following our usual start we got away just after 11.00.
A gas bottle had run out a couple of days ago and as Sweden is not
quite awash with LPG stations, we picked one from the MyLPG app on
our route at Linkoping and set up TomTom. Just as well because we'd
never have found it otherwise.........
Topped off, it was back
on a quite busy motorway headed for Stockholm, and we settled down
once again to enjoy the scenery. We've managed to find a nice setting
on the cruise control which doesn't mean we're forever slowing
down/speeding up as we encounter trucks and it seems quite good on
fuel consumption. We've noticed that fuel is a similar price to the
UK by the way.
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| Swedish Air Force |
A latish lunch in a
nice picnic area just off the motorway; these appear quite regularly
and are well signposted. Then after a perusal of the campsite books
continued our journey with a plan to make for a stellplatz type place
north of Stockholm. Unfortunately our timings coincided with rush
hour in Stockholm and, coupled with a truck breakdown and road works,
it took us over an hour to cross Stockholm. We had already decided
not to stop here, the Rough Guide not showing us anything of enough
interest to break our journey, so once again TomTom took us to our
overnight stop.
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| Main street |
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| Lutherian church |
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| Ancient rune stones |
Sigtuna turns out to be
the oldest town in Sweden and was first to mint coinage. It was once
upon a time a major trading centre and received the Kings patronage.
Nowadays it is little more than a marina but has an attractive main
street built in traditional Swedish style. After tea we took Jamie
out to explore and to give him some exercise, something he hasn't had
much of today. Then at 10.30 the man came round to collect his money! Drat, thought we'd got away with that!
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