Road Trip in Sweden

[le vrai rdu]

Hello,

Long time since I posted Here.
Some pictures of my road trip in Sweden.
My first plan was to go to visit a friend in Russia, drivinf from Paris, Hamburg, Stockholm, Riga and Moscow, but it was a bit expensive for me and the fee for the visa and time to get it completely absurd (Yes, I am a ****ing European living in the Schengen space, I am not used to stop at the borders 😀 )
So I decided to go to Stockholm and then back home.
It was supposed to be 4000km , but when you make a road trip, you sometimes get some longer roads, so I drove 6500 km in two weeks, alone (quite nice sometimes 😀) in my Citroen which can be a nice place to sleep when a moose wants to visit your tents.

Everything was fine excepted that I was stolen all my Film cameras (mamiya C, yashica mat, minolta SRT) in my cars . Luckyly I was walking with my fuji X100, so I still add one camera left

Kalmar

near Kalmar

fritsla

Dalskarr

Stockholm

somewhere...

Oresundbron seen from Malmö

Hamburg (lovely place)

Elbe river

 

[le vrai rdu]

Some remarks concerning swenden:
Nice roads with carefull peoples, but speeds limits are quite low and small roads can take a lot of times.

I was a bit disapointed by the ports (I wasn't northern than stockholm however) because the smallest ones were dedicated to leasure sailing and the bigger ones (I wanted to see fishing boats) were closed because of ferry boats (international areas, restricted access...)

 

[Landberg]

Sweet! Nice pictures! Sweden always looks nicer on pictures! Did you like it?

 

[le vrai rdu]

Yes I did but wich I could go farther (it is really expensive ...)

My final goal is the lofoten Island with the whale fishers 😀

 

[Bingley]

I like the photos and fav'd some of them over on flickr. Sorry to hear about the theft of your film cameras.🙁 How did you like using the Fuji, coming from film?

 

[Borge H]

Fritsla

Fritsla

Is the Fritsla photo taken in the Fritsla village south of Borås in southern Sweden?

All your photos are nice, I like them very much! I think that you as a stranger see things that we who live here do not notice. Keep up the good work!

The distances are very long here. I takes more than a day or two to drive within speed limits up north to the north part of Norrland. There a lot of animals beside the road, many accidents with moose happens every year. There are fences at some large roads. Be careful at dawn and dusk, my wife had a collision one morning with moose some years ago. The car (a Volvo 245) was wasted, but she was OK.

A Swedish minister said some years ago that: "He didn´t know that it was this much forest in Sweden", when he traveled the by inland railway.

If you or someone else plan again a visit here I suggest you to stay out of the cities like Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö. The country-side is more like traditional Sweden. People are more friendly and almost everyone speak English.

It is not so expensive to live here, but eating a dinner at a restaurant at night can be expensive and hotel bills are also not low-cost. I guess that the reason is that the wages are high, even for service jobs. Buy your own food in shops and stay with friends!

The coastal region up to Norway is beautiful. The islands Öland and Gotland in the Baltic is worth a visit. If you like forests, drive your car from Värmland up north through Dalarna and Härjedalen. You can drive hours without seeing a house, the wildlife is plentiful. If you go out in the forest it is very quiet, it feels different in the ears! No noise, no traffic! The air is fresh and strong! In the summer the day is long and the night is short and light. In the winter it is cold and dark, in northern Sweden you can see the northern light at a clear night, I would love to photograph this, as I live in southern Sweden!

 

[Robin P]

Very interesting trip and photos, so sad about the theft of your cameras.
When I was your age I drove long distances on my own - but south 🙂
Lots of interesting photo opportunities in the former Yugoslavia on the way to Athens.

 

[le vrai rdu]

Thanks all for your comments 🙂

Coming from film to digital was quite easy with the fuji, because of the traditionnal control of the camera. I really like the rangefinder finder so that was the perfect camera for the transition.
The autofocus seems a bit slow but it is faster than manual focus. The difference is that you don't have anything to do when the camera foocus, so it seems slow of course.
What I like with the fuji is that it is an excellent "professionnal" camera but it can be also a great point on shoot in automatic mode.
I am thinking of buying an Xpro1 but need to save a bit more money. I miss the 24 to 28 mm range and the 50mm

Concerning Fritsla, it is around Varberg if I remember well. I am not sure it is fritsla, I wrote the place I drove on the map but there was not all the lakes and roads on it.

The part of sweden I visited was really full of forest,really impressive. As an amateur wood worker I really appreciated 😀

Concerning the south, I have to say I don't really stand the heat and sun as I used to do unfortunately , but I don't really care about cold as long as it is warmer thant minus 20°C and not too wet

 

[robert blu]

All excellent photos, I specially like the one with the horses and a building (maybe a church?) on the right side, composition, tones, subjects everything is what I like! Please post more. Sorry about the theft of your cameras, these are things which should not happen.

 

[valdas]

Very nice pictures!
It's sad to hear about the theft, Sweden is perceived as a very safe country but in our days things happen everywhere...

 

[maggieo]

Oh, what a beautiful set of photographs! How I want to return to Sweden!

 

[Ronny]

Welcome back to Sweden!
Nice photos!

 

[le vrai rdu]

Very nice pictures!
It's sad to hear about the theft, Sweden is perceived as a very safe country but in our days things happen everywhere...

The theft occured in France 😀

Sweden looked very save to me

 

[raid]

The images are beautiful. Too bad about the loss of the film cameras.