On Sunday we moved here to the coast in Jutland. Denmark seems to be quite a commercialised country compared to the rest of Scandinavia and most of it is also very flat, though here it is a bit more rolling countryside again like Southern Sweden. We are in a campsite close to a beach and they certainly have nice sandy beaches here though still too cold for me to really appreciate them. However we are in quite a flash campsite with a "tropical" swimmi...

We arrived in Denmark on Friday after crossing the bridge from Malmo in Sweden and proceeded straight into Copenhagen. I've used a picture of Amsterdam as Off Exploring didn't have any Library photos of Denmark at all and Copenhagen does look quite dutch in parts. Its a much bigger noisier city than the ones we visited in Sweden and Norway. Much more advertising and more American tourists so it was a bit disappointing at first, but we sought out some of the ol...

Campsite in Torekov - lovely

As we didn't know much about Sweden before we had no specific plan of what to see other than a visit to Gothenberg - Stockholm was really too far out of our way to make the effort. But we wanted to see enough of the country�to do it justice so decided to spend our first couple of nights by a lake in a town called Lidkoping which happened to have quite a glam campsite! I believe Northern Sweden�is mountainous and rugged like Norway but th...

So we'd left you in Flam and from there we travelled North(!) to Fjaerdland and glacier territory, i.e. even colder! It was beautiful, in a lonely, desolate sort of way and when the cloud cleared enough the views were fantastic. But to be honest the season doesn't really start there until June and everything was closed. We couldn't really see the attraction for people living there as they must just spend 8 months of the year snow bound, but maybe there is some gr...