Östersund and Mora

Wednesday: Return trip with the Inland Line. 13 hours train ride with lots of forests and mountains, lakes and swamps, initially occasional reindeer. The bear in the wild did not show itself to us. Many interesting information from the train conductor, who is also a tourist guide and tells many details. For example, the people in northern Sweden are not so enthusiastic about the bears, which also prey on young reindeer. During the ride through Arvidjaur, the car testers were also mentioned - there and in other places in the area, large hotels are fully booked in winter because cars and skis are being tested. Initially, you can see a few mountains with some snow. Gradually, the pine trees become taller and thicker again, and agriculture becomes more present.

Thursday: We set off for a small bike tour, but due to the windy weather, we go to Jamtli, which is the national museum with open-air museum and more. With the German audio guides, you could spend the whole day in the exhibitions, which are about the Stone Age, Viking Age, the Sami (people in Lapland), and the life of the farmers. The English guided tour through the open-air museum is almost exclusive, a nice young woman in antique farmer clothes accompanies us to some stations, and we experience that without a travel permit, we better run away rather than be accommodated and registered, that someone wants to sell us bad potatoes and how stylish holiday accessories are sold at a gas station as in the 1950s - finally the first vacation with a car!

You can meet people from this time period and have conversations with them at every house or farm. From the starving farmers in the 18th century to loggers during World War II and a house from the 70s (our youth is already a part of history for younger people)...

Friday:

Now the bike trip to the island of Frösön, right across from Östersund. A church on the St. Olav's Way, a pilgrimage route from the Baltic Sea to Trondheim, and an observation tower that turns out to be a pretty little wooden tower, next to it a historical house and delicious cake from the local association...

Saturday: Final stage of the Inland Line! Get up early, dismantle the tent, departure at 7:28 am. We arrive in Mora at around half past one and have time to arrive early at the campsite, which turns out to be a kind of town in size. We manage to book a train ticket for Monday and a train that transports bikes. The city is not big, but quite touristy, this is where the Vasaloppet, one of the largest cross-country skiing competitions, takes place or ends after 90 km. In the evening, we go out to eat in the city and when we sit by the lake afterwards, we realize that this is basically the Swedish Lake Starnberg.

Sunday:

Even without much exercise, you can handle a day of doing ,NOTHING‘ after all these busy days. By the way, the campsite also has a beautiful bathing bay on the river.

Monday: The journey south continues by train and bike, we have booked from Mora to Karlstad, but will get off one station earlier in Kil, as we continue to Arvika with the bikes.