Journey: Fettjeafallet – Locknekratern Meteoritcentre – Sundsvall – Skuleskogen National Park
Loved this meme shared by Sarah this morning – it is so true! I was meant to do a 2 mile jog, but hasn’t really thought much about the terrain. My route was a lovely path up to a waterfall through the woods, except for the loose wet boulders, raised roots and steep incline. I ran for a bit then accepted it was a walk…a rare walk on my own with just my thoughts. I randomly decided to sit in a rock pool, the water was freezing but it was so nice listening to the water flowing and just lying back against a rock. To dry off I sat on the bridge, half expecting someone to come but they never did. I’d been gifted these quiet moments. Once dressed again, a couple appeared and once back at the larger waterfall Mark arrived with the dogs. Wanting to share the magic of the river I carried Mabel across to a little island and the boys paddled across. I had a proper swim…Mark didn’t fancy it but I appreciate him going along with the idea.
We like to get our nerd on occasionally, and so our next trip was to the meteorite museum. It’s only little and we had the place to ourselves so they switched the film language to English for us and we had a coffee while watching. It’s run by two really nice people who we chatted to for ages, the chap told us the Saami people bring their reindeer to the area we saw them, and lots of really interesting facts. The lady was volunteering through a website workaway.info where you get accommodation/food in exchange for voluntary work. She was originally from Madrid and had wanted to travel and has thus used this scheme to go to Finland and Sweden so far.
Yesterday we were a bit concerned about our low LPG as we use it to cook with. Once back at the van we realised Sweden only has 16 LPG garages in the whole country and only one was north of us near the border of Finland…it was also too far to risk it as there is no LPG in Finland. So instead of a 3.5 hour drive straight north, we are having to add an extra 5 hours and do the other three sides of the square. Still the scenery is just beautiful and the driving so pleasant. We forgot to take phots enroute but there are magnificent lakes, trees and bridges.
Now we can definitely make coffee and dinner again we took the pups for a brief walk around a lakeside memorial and then drove on to Skuleskogen National Park. We only did a short walk as it was so late, but the dogs are all zonked out and snoring now.
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