Jane And Rog
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Why obviously? And, stop pretending to be me.Rog, obviously![]()
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Glerp. We’re planning the ferry next to Fyn so hoping that’s cheaper than the bridge.Don’t want to alarm you but when I was half heartedly researching for a trip to Sweden (nephew lives in Upsala) I think you have another bridge which is a similar price. From my weak memory it was to cost us £500 + in tolls and ferries etc to get there.
Hey Rob, did you ever work for tefal by any chanceAs it’s appropriate, you need to assemble the next paragraph yourself from the following package:
The Dënby bløg
Contains: 40 small nuts, 39 small bolts, 1 small piece of plastic which you thrown away but turns out to be vital and a bag of words containing the following: (museum We stop from was south our Eksjö drove the and first Ikea).
Yes, we looked round the Ikea museum in Älmhult.
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A room full of törrflaps, blonhåvens and dikwadds.
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Ikea, died only fairly recently in 2018 at the age of 91. He was only 17 when he started the business! The strange Ikea names for their products are down to Ingvar - they’re all the names of real places or things, rather than being invented. This is because Ingvar was dyslexic and thought he would make life easier for himself. For example, the bathroom stuff is named after Sweden’s rivers and lakes.
The museum was rather lacking in depth, so I wouldn’t drive miles out of the way to see it.
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20% of people have very boring lives, it seems.
There is a massive Ikea store nearby though, if you can cope with one. Rog rarely can.
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The best part was the Annie Leibovitz photo collaboration.
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The weather was grey first thing and then rained all day, absolutely bucketing it down in the afternoon. It put paid to plans of cooking, again, so we’ve stopped in a car park in Malmö for the night. We’ve absolutely charged through Sweden, but we’re happy with that as we definitely want to return and explore properly - although not in high season.
In Malmö, the Curse of Monday struck again. Both the restaurants we had planned in Mundus were closed. Neither of us fancied a posh nosh. So we ended up at the local Thai, which was very good, and I ensured delivered me plenty of veg.
I think this holiday’s tendency to be pork-heavy and veg-free has made me certain that I will take our salad thingies next time. They’re tupperware technology, with a bowl for dry salad leaves, and two other sealed parts for dressing and protein. Would be great to prepare in the morning ready for lunch on the road.
I’m aware we’re just heading home now, so are people still interested in this thread? There’s always the blog as an option. We’re also nearly out of data, but Rog is chatting to a man at EE about that.
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Coddiwompling score: Rain stopped play.
Ankle score: Leg before wicket.
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The bridges and ferries are regulated by the Government and so are normally the same pric. Ferry to Germany may be cheaper.Glerp. We’re planning the ferry next to Fyn so hoping that’s cheaper than the bridge.
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Is there some way off just registering your vehicle and paying by direct debit or perhaps a toll tag like Fulli?The bridges and ferries are regulated by the Government and so are normally the same pric. Ferry to Germany may be cheaper.
Ferry to Germany was a fair bit moreThe bridges and ferries are regulated by the Government and so are normally the same pric. Ferry to Germany may be cheaper.
Thanks. Good advice for us reading this 2 days agoFrom memory. You could save half the price of the Swedish Crossings by getting a Bropass.
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Anti Coddiwompling day -3: Holland
We’ve been to Holland quite a lot but generally stuck to city breaks. We fixed that today and had a great time.
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But first we had an extension built: behold the frankendenby.
We left the harbour and drove slightly back northwards to the fortified village of Fort Bourtange. The fort was completed in 1593 under orders from Will Orange who wanted to control the road from Groningen (under Spanish occupation) and Germany (under German occupation). In 1851 the eighty years war was long gone and so they turned Fort Bourtange into a village. The fortifications are fantastically well preserved. After walking Flynn around the surrounding canals (and getting him a well overdue freshwater bath) we had a coffee and breakfast in the square. Viewing from the ground, Fort Bourtange is just a nice village with a moat.
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A coffee in a nice village…View attachment 928821
…with a moat.The drone shows it off better:
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Fortifications
…but you also want to get a few thousand meters up and look at the Google Maps Satellite images.
From there we had planned another two stops but the driving was against us so we chose the tiny canal town of Giethoorn - the Venice of the Netherlands.
Giethoorn is nothing like Venice with the exception of having canals but, Rochdale can claim that too. Also like Rochdale, it is also full of tourists. In hindsight, a sunny July Saturday at lunchtime wasn’t the best time to visit Holland’s most popular tourist attraction. Still, we did easily get a great seat overlooking the Grand Canal and Ponte Vecchio to eat our bitterballen and croque monsuir.
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We had planned to hire a boat and cruise up the canal but it was far too busy. Instead we watched clueless boat hirers try to get out of trouble by applying moar power! Moar rudder! Obviously they got into trouble - the boats were more or less the length of the canal’s width so it was very easy to get stuck. The (few) locals cruising in their sleeker (and more fragile) boats were not amused.
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Is this the right way to the harbour?
On the drive leaving Giethoorn the Denby poltergeist decided to have one more go at disrupting the holiday. The cab aircon stopped working if the fan was above the two setting. Then it did. Then it didn’t. I don’t think we can be bothered to investigate this with two days to go.
We drove on for another couple of warm hours to Geertruidenberg Marina (///viewer.paragraph.remembers) but I prefer to think we’re staying in the next door town, the fantastically named Raamsdonksveer.
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Not Raamsdonksveer
We had our eyes on two restaurants serving Dutch food: the somewhat up its own arse Restaurant Weeshuys and the more down to earth D’n Bergsche Hap. Unfortunately - if predictably - they were both closed. In Weeshuys case it looked permanent. So, after a quick glass of pink on the market square, we were left with a choice of one Italian or a chip van. It wasn’t what we’d hoped for but it was very nice.
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His and hers pink.
Codiwomple rating: NaN
Ankle report: missing - the report, not the ankle.
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Hi. I've enjoyed reading your thread. Could you tell me what injection the vet gave for the worming treatment? Going back a while our previous dog often ended up with an injection. Now, with our current dog (a rescue who is nigh on impossible to give a tablet to in the vet surgery) we have been told that the injectable wormer isn't allowed any more. It would be a great relief to find that there is again a version licenced for use in the EU.After I’d filled in 11 forms (one for each of the countries we have crossed so far this trip, in their own language) and written three illustrated copies of Flynn’s life history, we were allowed to see the friendly lady vet. She preferred to given an injection for worming rather than a tablet. We understood why when we got the bill.
Oh no, I hope ours is OK, it’s Vetbancid, which looks to have the usual praziquantel in it.Hi. I've enjoyed reading your thread. Could you tell me what injection the vet gave for the worming treatment? Going back a while our previous dog often ended up with an injection. Now, with our current dog (a rescue who is nigh on impossible to give a tablet to in the vet surgery) we have been told that the injectable wormer isn't allowed any more. It would be a great relief to find that there is again a version licenced for use in the EU.
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