Sweden - in the middle somewhere!

There is quite a lot of Sweden. After we left Stromlund we continued south on the Inlandsvagen, (aka E45) meeting the odd car or truck once in a while, and stopped for the night on Friday in another small town going by the uninspiring name of Sveg. The local hotel restaurant was doing a Friday night special meal deal called "After Work" which we decided would save cooking and washing up and that was about it's best feature! We were still in the northern half of the country and again it was a cold night (+2 when we awoke on Saturday morning.) A Swedish guy I met in the washroom commented that Summer had now ended and it certainly felt that way.
We got under way about 10.30 which was quite early for us but just a couple of kilometers out of town I realised that we were getting low on fuel and should have filled up before leaving. I decided to carry on, assuming we would get some at the next town we reached. After driving 20 kilometers and having passed a couple of signs indicating that the next town of any significance was over 100 kilometers away, I lost my nerve and we turned round and drove the 20km back to Sveg to fill up with diesel. The low fuel light began to flash soon after we'd turned round so I felt justified and even more so when we set off again and the first sign for fuel we saw was after 75km and was two very elderly petrol pumps outside a village shop. The first service station selling diesel appeared after 120 km. We would certainly have run out before then. I guess we only lost about 30 minutes but it seemed more and was more annoying because it shouldn't have happened. However, the weather was bright and getting warmer and the scenery quite attractive, the trees were gradually thinning with more farmland appearing between them, as well as plenty of rivers and lakes.
Around lunchtime we stopped in the town of Mora, mainly because there was a clearly signed parking area for motorhomes, quite a rare occurence. There was the sound of music and signs of activity from the town centre so we wandered along into what appeared to be a Gay Pride celebration, judging by the flags and the number of same sex couples around.
We wandered out again and found the lake front. The day had now turned out quite warm, either due to our having come further south and to a lower altitude or maybe just an upturn in the weather conditions, but summer certainly no longer seemed to have ended!
There was an ice cream parlour beside the lake which also served coffee and muffins so we had some of each.

Getting back on the road, we took a detour from the E45 onto an even quieter road, following the valley of the River Klaralve, Sweden's longest river, and eventually we arrived at our chosen campsite for the night, Alevi Camping. We camped beside this beautiful wide and slow flowing river, and two of our fellow campers actually arrived by canoe, with their dog!

Relaxing by the river with a good book.







And breakfast this morning

This morning we continued down the valley for while through some attractive farming country until we eventually rejoined the Inlandsvagen.
All the way down from Arvidsjaur the road has criss-crossed with a single track railway line called the 'Inlandsbanen', either going over or under it on bridges or level crossings. We have never seen a train. So we were both startled when, as we were driving along beside the track, suddenly we saw a train approaching, and on a Sunday as well!

We are now quite a lot farther south. Today we were passing road signs to Stockholm, Oslo and Goteborg and seemed to be a similar distance from each. We are on another lakeside site tonight and hope to get down as far as Goteborg tomorrow. It was pleasantly warm again this afternoon in the sun but turned quite cold once the sun went down.