Aarhus

On our drive from Odense to Aarhus we stopped off about half way at a town called Jelling (pronounced Yelling!). Jelling is the place which the Danes consider to be the birthplace of their country. Back in 965 AD King Harald Bluetooth converted to Christianity, and there’s a rune stone which declares that Harald had … Read more

Odense

There are only two road tolls in Denmark which, when combined, cost more than 18 months vehicle excise duty in the UK. We’d already driven across the Øresund bridge to cross from Sweden to Denmark and, as it’s the only road crossing between the islands of Zealand and Funen, we now had to cross the … Read more

Copenhagen

It was only a short ride from Helsingør to the campsite in Copenhagen. On the way, we stopped off at Ryvangen Memorial Park, which commemorates members of the Danish resistance who were murdered there by the Nazis. It wasn’t until after the war that the bodies of 197 freedom fighters were discovered in this area, … Read more

From Strøby to Helsingør

We ended up staying at the campsite in Strøby for four nights, spending most of the time reading in the shade. As we were still able to pick up German Eurosport, we watched the closing stages of the Tour de France, and it was fantastic to see Welshman Geraint Thomas win the yellow jersey. In … Read more

Strøby

We’ve not done very much at all this week, given the hot weather. We left the campsite at Linköping and drove south to Älmhult, stopping on the way at supermarket Willys on the way. We also went to fill up with LPG as one of the tanks was half empty, but it would only take … Read more

Linköping

It felt sad to leave Stockholm when we hadn’t properly explored the city, but we didn’t have much choice with the weather in the 30’s. We’ll just have to return another time. At least the aircon in the van works well, so we were nice and cool on the drive south to our next stop. … Read more

Stockholm

It’s a 600 km journey from Oslo to Stockholm, but there’s not much to see in between. It’s too far to drive in a day so we planned to break the journey up by stopping overnight at a free lakeside ställplats in Karlskoga. We had to drive the long way out of Oslo to avoid … Read more

Oslo

We set the alarm for 7am (early for us!) so that we could get a space on the aire at Oslo Marina and then spend the rest of the day in Oslo. The 40 km journey took about three quarters of an hour, with the satnav getting its knickers in a twist trying to avoid … Read more

Sundvollen

Last night our new neighbours Phil and Steph kindly invited us to watch the football in their van as they could pick up ITV. Unfortunately the England team couldn’t overcome Croatia, but they did themselves proud and hopefully this will be the start of a new era for the international team. Today has been a … Read more

Bergen

For the past few days we’ve been staying on a lovely campsite just outside Bergen, parked in front of a lake. It’s a beautiful setting. The campsite has a TV room, where we watched England beat Sweden in the World Cup quarter finals. As the campsite is so good we decided that we’d stay until … Read more