Shortly after cossing the border of Sweden and Norway you come past Idre and should take the road up to the Nipfjället where the Nipman palters with tourist or rather their cars. At a certain spot you can see your vehicle rolling up the hill! Pretty funny and quite surprising | See the pictures
Here we also saw the first wild reindeer which didn’t really take any notice when I approached it to take a photo – it probably knew that given its pretty big and pointy antler I would be the one running for my life.
All of a sudden we spotted a sandy beach at a lake and decided to stay there for the night – hmm, the sand was somehow pretty nasty and it took a while to get out of it again. But therefor we were rewarded an amazingly colorful evening light of the setting sun. This time we even started a fire (although it’s forbidden in Sweden to light a fire till the end of September) but there was water just a few feet away and no-one could see us (maybe the more important fact).
Looking for internet? The library in Älvdalen offers 30 minutes per user and day. That night at a small lake a fox tried to get hold of our Flintsteak (the name comes actually from the Flintstones – when you see it you’ll know why, it somehow reminds you of a dinosaur). Probably pissed off that he didn’t get what he wanted the fox came back during the night and spread our rubbish that we had stupidly left outside the car all over the place.
In Dala you get to see some of the famous red “Dalahäst”, horses made of wood, that used to be a typically Swedish item before they decided that an elk is somehow funkier and made them become there symbol.
In Uppsala I can highly recommend the Greek restaurant Tzaziki near the church – the perfect location, snappy waitresses and good food. If you need a free parking head for the adventure bath “Fyrishov”. Nearby in a residential area there are enough free parkings and it’s only a short walk into the city. The bath itself is also nice, we spent about three hours in the hot spa and sauna but also swam 1 km. The old city of Uppsala, “Gamle Uppsala” offers grave mounds of old kings and a museum (apparently not worth visiting).