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, Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:22:16
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Hi Tom,
You'll greatly enjoy both car and trip no doubt in my mind! You've already got some good tips from others - most especially the one about two weeks not being long enough. My experience is that you shouldn't try to pack too much in, especially in terms of driving distance. Europe is so full of things to look at that you waste it by droning past so much of it just to get to see some particular thing which is 'only' 800km away.
I've not yet seen the Fjords on the West Coast of Norway - but that would be my strongest recommendation after seeing photos of them. you should be able to do a nice loop from Trollhattan going into Norway, check out the Fjords, back South, get a ferry to Denmark, do Copenhagen (couple of days), then it's a liesurely drive back up the pretty West Coast of Sweden via Gothenburg.
I've only spent a brief period in Norway, basically around the Swedish border to the South so can't offer anything there.
Denmark's landscape is mostly pretty boring - very flat. The island of Fyn is the most interesting bit - it's chaming but unspectacular. Copenhagen is a great city, I love it. The city has free bicycles that you just put 5 krona in and take like a shopping trolley, ride them around till you get to the next spot and leave it at the next 'city bike stop', get your 5k back, look around, then grab another bike - city is very flat so it works perfectly. While in Copenhagen don't miss a walk up the Rundetagn (round tower) for it's sheer awesome construction- and a nice view. Also, take a ferry tour on the harbour and don't miss Kristiania which is a hippie commune in an old disused Navy station across the harour from the tourist area of Nyhavn. Dope plants growing in the street and all sorts of strange goings on, the coppers turn a blind eye. Interesting to see how well a tolerant society works. Little mermaid is cute but overdone and crawling with tourists hopping on and off their coaches, taking a photo and going again. Not my kind of tourism. What I love about Copenhagen is just stopping at a cafe, ordering a coffee or a beer and watching the city go by. Plenty of eye candy! :-) The "walking street" is good for a browse but once again tourist hell IMHO, just go one or two streets back and you're back amongst the locals. you can just aimlessly wander around exploring much like in Venice or similar and you'll almost always find something interesting.
There's a bridge or short ferry ride to Helsingborg and you can tour your way up the Swedish coast - very picturesque but gets more interesting the further North you go. Take a swim in a lake somewhere - there's millions of them. If you can, do the full sauna thing - the best are wood fired ones next to a lake. You sauna up till you can't take any more then dive into the lake quickly. All in the birthday suit of course, great fun. As previously noted, Gothenburg's canal tour is worth doing as is checking out the various medievel castles up and down the coast.
In your time frame I wouldn't go too much further than that - concentrate on the Fjordlands of Norway and take in Copenhagen and Gothenburg on the way back, in between enjoy the understated beauty of Scandanavia. I certainly wouldn't bother with Northern Germany, Finland is great but not in your timeframe, Stockholm is lovely but see how your time pans out - don't waste two days just flogging over there and back.
My two cents anyhow. Send us a photo of your new car at a Fjord!!
Enjoy!
Steve
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