Tuesday 28 June – Gotteborg to Frederiksvaerke

The rock concert, which sounded like it was supposed to be a Bruce Springsteen tribute, ended around 11.00pm so it did not disturb us and after a peaceful night awoke to discover we were “camped” in the car park of a nature reserve – explains why it wasn't busy overnight or first thing. No facilities so after breakfast back to our old friend the E6 heading for Malmo. Bright and sunny again as most mornings have been but this time it stayed that way all day.

Approaching Malmo we stopped for lunch and to refuel. We could have used a short ferry crossing between Helsingborg (Sweden) and Helsingor (Denmark) but earlier research suggested it was as costly as the bridge and last night an internet search said it was closed, which apparently it isn't. So we went for the bridge/tunnel again and just followed the motorway, stopping only at the toll booth to pay our Dkr780 before entering Denmark with no controls whatsoever. Contrast that with the other direction when it was the only place we were checked.

First part is a bridge.......

...which then dives underwater!

Not having had a “break” since Mo I Rana we felt it was time to take a few days off so a little bit of research showed that North Zealand, the area north of Copenhagen, seemed to have quite a lot going for it with a choice of campsites. So we set TomTom for a likely looking spot at Frederikssund and set off across country, immediately noticing how much more relaxed Denmark seemed to be, although to be fair to Sweden we had been on motorways all the time. The site at Frederikssund turned out to be a marina with an area set by for motorhomes, of which there were none although two turned up just as we decided it wasn't what we were looking for for a few nights stop.

A small clutch of sites showed at Frederiksvaerke, just to the north and we headed for the first. Turning into the road leading to the site we were immediately impressed and decided that this would do nicely. In fact there was hardly anybody staying here but we booked in for 3 nights anyway and chose a lovely pitch in an open space which would give us full sun all day but with trees surrounding, providing protection. Kettle on, chairs out and enjoy the late afternoon sun followed by tea then a long chat with a Danish family camped in tents next to us taking a long weekend break.

Although it was clear when we turned in, the forecast is for rain over the next couple of days just about everywhere but we have all we need and plan on just doing nothing now for a couple of days.