After our nice short break in Fischland on the Darß, we found ourselves directly on the ferry from Rostock to Trelleborg. The crossing was very smooth and no one got seasick. Arrived in Sweden we looked for a nice place on a hiking parking lot at a small lake and spent the night there. Already here we noticed how it was much longer light in the evening although we hadn't moved that far north. The following day we continued north to the two lakes Vänern and Vättern.
We spent two days at the beautiful Finjasjön directly on the beach to finally arrive in Sweden. My run around the lake turned out to be a longer and wetter affair than expected, because the weather on the other side of the lake was completely different than at our pitch. On our way further north we deliberately did not drive on the big roads to experience the country a little more. And of course we hoped to see some animals. Unfortunately, we only saw a few deer.
Finding a parking space at the two large lakes turned out to be more difficult and we decided to continue towards Oslo. A little later we crossed the Norwegian border and the «Attention moose» signs changed. Shortly afterwards we were actually lucky enough to see a cow moose a few meters from the road. We were so surprised that we jerked Luisa out of her sleep so that she could see the moose too. Shortly after we found a wonderful place at the end of a forest path. We were very lucky with the weather and were able to fully enjoy two days.
Now it was time to plan our visit to Oslo. Cities are always a medium-sized challenge for us, since we first have to find a place to sleep nearby (campsites near big cities are often very expensive and badly rated), Zacharias has to park somewhere reasonably safe (it is difficult to find out in advance whether there are height restrictions of 1.9 or 2.0 m exist), look at the city and then find a parking space for the night again. Before we finally drove to Oslo, we spontaneously made a detour to Ivan's junkyard near the Norwegian border in Sweden.
There, in the 1960s, a large number of vehicles were completely dismantled and brought across the border to Norway in single parts, since the import and the associated taxes were so enormous that the effort was worth it. When the law was changed, it was no longer worth it and allegedly more than 1000 vehicles are rotting in the forest there, partially dismantled or hardly recognizable that they were cars. It was very exciting to see and one or the other air-cooled boxer engine from a Beetle or T2 was also still on the side of the road.
After this little fun trip we went to Oslo. We left early and were in the parking lot of the IKEA north-east of Oslo shortly after it opened. There you can go for free with no height limit! parking and there is even a free shuttle bus directly to the bus station in the city center. We strolled around a bit, looked at the opera, the Domkirke and the memorial for the terrorist attack on Utøya and enjoyed the afternoon with the children on a playground. Then we took the shuttle bus back to IKEA. There was still plenty of self-refillable soft ice cream and then we swung our hooves and drove to the Strandevatnet north of Kongsberg for 2 days.
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