Tuesday 14 June – Robertsfor to Seskaro

A better start today into another bright clear morning – well it's actually been bright and clear all night, never got dark!

Need to make more progress today so with essentials completed it's back onto the E4 for the long drag towards Finland, which is todays target. Again most of the scenery is trees, interspersed with views of the coast and the many rivers/inlets. We've started to notice habitation amongst the trees, usually first evidence being a line of post boxes on the side of the road. Occasionally, too, an industrial unit has been built hidden amongst the trees. And as we're no longer on the motorway, the road takes us through the towns to show us more of traditional Sweden. Clean, modern but in the traditional style of wood built houses with wooden shingles, mostly in the rich dark brown colour but also pastels and a very nice smoky grey too.

Nice wide clear and empty roads

Don't see this roadsign in the UK much

We think they're livestock shelters

Made a lunch stop at one of the supermarket chains, this time Willys, where we took the opportunity of topping up the fridge and as we left, filling the fuel tank again. Despite there being adequate fuel stations we're not going to let fuel get too low.

With traffic now very light we made good progress but decided we'd stop for the night just short of the Finnish border so once again selected something from one of the signposts. Seskaro Camping turned out to be almost identical to the last two sites we've stayed at with all facilities and lovely positioning, right on the coast. Well not too close because the midgies come out at teatime! Once again, although we've had a few rain showers this afternoon, the sun has come streaming through and it's a beautiful evening.

We're not too sure about taking the dog into Finland so the site receptionist has recommended we go visit the customs office before we cross. Apparently the twin border towns of Haparanda (Sweden) and Tornio (Finland) were built specifically to make a border crossing when Finland was still a Russian protectorate. We're looking forward to investigating and will also visit the (joint) Tourist Information office.