5000 Bornes en 2,25 diesel

Ready to go at Jef’s place…


First pitstop was ‘Zolverrein’, an enormous coalmine and we only visited the ‘washing installation’...




The ‘Ruhr’, cultural capital of Europe 2010.

After camping near Osnabrück we headed north to Lübeck…


The ‘Holsentor’ in Lübeck…


Friday-afternoon we arrived at Verner’s meeting in Denmark (we took a few ferries but no piccies because flat battery…


After we had a few beers we played some local, Scandinavian? games; you can see the effect that alcohol has…Jef still in 1st gear…


Oops! Just shifted into overdrive!



Saturday we had a greenlaning tour…

Viking heritage…


Dougal stretching on the 4x4 terrain…

Time for ‘aperitive’ (the local shop gave us 2 crats of beer, for free!)


Cosy BBQ in the evening…

After someone winched me (no front prop) up a small hill we said goodbye to everyone and Jef and I went to ‘Sverige’…

LARGE country…


We immediately drove some lanes…



to our private lake…



Jef took us to a nice small museum with strange cars...



Jef wanted to stay in the southern part of Sweden; we headed north for Varberg radio-station (early 1920’s and unique in Europe).


We headed for Tanum (rock carvings) and on the campsite we came across these chaps…They we’re heading towards a Land Rover meeting in Norway…


But first Tanum where they reconstructed ancient houses,…


On our way to the LR-meeting…


Because it was a LR-meeting(…) it was of course expensive; well if we had the time to stay from Thue.- Sun. it was ‘ok’(£140...) but we only had time for two nights and they still wanted £110...



and of we went…

Very old wooden church…

Because we absolutely wanted to see a few places in Sweden we headed north, through Oslo and eventually by some lanes into Sweden…



Camping by a river this time…


National park in Dalarna with Sweden’s highest waterfall…


Empty roads and endless forests…


Bit of TLC (in prepartion of…) in Falun.


Falun coppermine…






Then we had this little story…






Engelsberg Ironworks, original iron ore…




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Because the weather wasn’t that good we headed south which meant, in this case, Germany (and also because we wanted some cosy towns, pubs & restaurants…)



Camping in Sweden…




Sweden’s southcoast near Trelleborg…




Sassnitz, here we come! 4 Hours ferry under a blue sky…


‘Stubbenkammer’…

Stralsund (former Hansa-league city); view from our campsite. One of the prettiest towns we’ve ever visited and pretty unspoilt (former DDR).




Schwerin…


Lüneburg, also very nice…



Goslar, probably one of the best preserved ancient towns of Germany…



Because Goslar was an imperial town; the emperor had of course an imperial palace; dates back to 11th century, fully rebuilt in the 1800's...

But we came for this…Rammelsberg! A mine for over a 1000 years…





Marburg…



also student-town....



Voila, tout pour l'instant; ns avons eu une excellente voyage et l'année prochaine direction est ou sud...


Carl