Friday 24th July 2026

Nasty wet weather this morning - water dripping into the van through the ceiling near the front skylight. Travelled east. Stopped to do clothes washing at a garage at Evenes which has a washing machine and dryer available for public use. The machines are in a cupboard just infront of the toilets which are in constant use as it's a very busy garage just next to the airport. Here's the queue for the loo - the washing machine and dryer are just the other side of these people. Anyway I eventually got our big bag of dirty washing washed and dried and they only charged me £2.35!

We continued east and soon crossed from Norway into Sweden. We stopped for the day at this very nice lakeside car park near Bjorkliden. We stayed here previously on 26th May 2014.

We have a superb lake view from the front of our van. Note the snow on the hills in late July.

You can legally park here for up to 24 hours.

There are a couple of interpretive signs here.

Here's the other one.

For the last couple of days Ann has had great difficulty breathing, can't sleep and has hardly any appetite! I am very worried about her!

Today we travelled 96 miles (155 kilometres). We are at: N68.43206 E18.67048

Bjorkliden     Street View