Sweden - Malmo to Stockholm

The only way to get from Denmark to Sweden if you don't want to go on a ferry is across the Oresund bridge. So we crossed and stopped briefly in Malmo for a snack.

We decided that where possible we would travel across country rather than just race up the motorways. However these were not exactly busy - this is the usual amount of traffic. You can see the trees are changing colour and although it is sunny the temperature is in single figures. Driving through Sweden is really beautiful, lovely forests, pretty houses and churches.

We drove to a campsite at Almhult and stayed near a lovely lake.

Almhult is where the first Ikea was born and so we had to go and visit it. There is an Ikea hotel, their Cultural Centre where they train all their management - basically it is a small Ikea town. I bought some fabric - each roll had 50 squares of 20cm x 20cm.

From Almhult we travelled up to Jonkoping on the edge of lake Vattern, the second largest lake in Sweden, calling in at an Elk sanctuary on the way. We had passed loads of warning signs on the road. Apparently over 4,000 are killed on the roads every year and they usually destroy the car.

After Jonkoping we moved up the lake to a place called Granna - famous for its candy. It looked just like our striped peppermint rock

On our travels we saw more windmills.

We also saw lots of lovely houses.

There are also very grand houses.

Here are a selection of photos featuring the van - the first is a view from where we spent the night in Nykoping (you can just see a hare on the grass), the second is the van hiding in the countryside and the third is in a seaside town called Trosa.

We are now on the Baltic Sea coast and moving up to Stockholm.