Traveling Roads: September 2012

The first time I felt like fall was close, was at Sun Dance Ranch. It was not even the change of colours in the leaves or that it was already getting colder (well, I’ve never hat very summery temperatures up North at no point of time). Maybe it was more the smells while riding through the woods. Like the one of wet wood after a rainy night. Maybe it was also just that you can rather see the change of season in nature than in a city. Well, our travelling roads through the South of Sweden definitely proved that another season was about to start. It was not during the last two days in Stockholm, where summer is still going on and we were walking roofs to have fantastic views over the city. Or taking a steam boat out into the archipelago, having dinner accompanied with wonderful music, sounding through the night. I guess it was more when we started to hit the countryside. First stop out of Stockholm was Gotland. The time there was unfortunately way too short and if ever I get the chance I must go back! A 3 hour ferry ride and you arrive in Visby and with that in a different world. We spent the nights no more in hotel rooms but in cosy wood cabin on Campgrounds (recalling Alaskan Times, just without the cabin). The streets were almost empty. The beaches as well. Stores opened late. Cafes were closed. Low season has started in Sweden. That's what the lady at the first Campground told us (As we should have called before arriving. Well, you should have told us that we should have called, and we surely would have done that :)). That wasn't the first and last time we realized that low season was really here. But hey, see the positive side of it. You don't have too many people standing in the way for great pictures :) After a few days in the country, seeing beautiful nature, fascinating rock formations, no mooses and rare signs of them and cheesy but oh so wonderful sunsets, we hit the city again: Göteborg. Second largest city in Sweden. But as nature was calling us we left after just half a day and drove further South, along the West Coast. Along the Swedish Riviera, as it is called. Good thing we did that, cause those beaches were really lovely (and guess, yes, a "low-season-amount-of-people" there :)). We even managed to see a lighthouse in the end - as you know I l-o-v-e lighthouses - along a rough and very windy coast. What a beautiful end to a great journey.

I'm back to where I started. One more day in Bremen, Germany. Tomorrow I'm heading back home after 5 weeks of travelling. I hope you enjoyed travelling up North with me. Until next time. As there surely will be :)