Welcome to Sweden

It's beginning to sink in quite how much of a journey this really is turning into...  We're over 9000 kms and, depending on what a "country" is, we've seen about 12 in what is now day 38 away from the UK.  Just the last couple of days it's started to be "so what country is this?"  It's still fantastic and when we think back through the last weeks the amount we have seen and done is amazing!  One week ago we were in Bergen, -2 weeks Hamburg, -3 South France / North Italy etc...  And every time we cross an international border we get handy welcome texts to both  phones.  They are the only texts I get!

So, more big scenery from Norway...  We've now been as far north as this trip will take us and it truly feels like we're on our way home, boo hiss ;-(  We went up to Alesund on the west coast and have since headed down the bigger roads via Lillehammer, and returned to Sweden.  Believe it or not we still have norwegian money, either things weren't so expensive or we calculated it wrong.  Hmm, let me think?

Today we crossed sweden from Karlstad to Stockholm (breakfasting in IKEA) and are camped up for the night with plans to have a 2 night stop, yes you heard right!  We will go into the city tomorrow on the underground which stops nearby.

Despite all attempts and a multitude of signs, we haven't seen any moose, or mice!  A fair number of deer, big and small, but no mooses.  We have acquired Horace a new chum in the shape of a magnetic-mini-moose, no name yet - see photo.  Also came across a cat in a wall which ran into the wall when we attempted to befriend it!

Here's a new picture of the van for ny niece Lara, as requested, showing that we too have seen some water from the sky, it's not all shorts and sunbathing you know!  This is where we stayed in Alesund, in a car park on the harbour with only 2 other vans for company.  It looks wetter than I remember, since we went for a good stroll and I climbed the 414+53 (it's what the sign said!) steps up the hill to see the view.