Instead we are heading for Europe's third largest lake, Vaenern. We randomly chose a stop in Trollhaetten, on the Goeteaelv, the river that drains the lake to the sea. The drive was quite pleasant but Reggie sucks up the diesel and it is expensive over here. (15.80kr/l on average, or ~£1.40/l) It's a good thing our accommodation and food is cheap. J calculated an average of £9 per night so far for the former.
Lunch by a lake. The fish were jumpin' and there were fishers (mostly men) all around the lake shore.
Completely different terrain from Denmark now - rocks and trees. Note how smooth...
West coast NZ? Wrong trees.
A ruined Slott (castle). Although there may be someone living in that restored wing.
Why build a castle here? Probably because of this commanding view.
J commanding the view
An old style farm with huge barn. And rocks.
We only got in to the campsite at around 6:30pm. Remember a few posts back we were laughing at those coming after the site was full, and deriding their woeful planning? With the (imagined) sound of laughter in our ears we headed off to the other campsite. Still, it isn't all bad, as at least it has a shower. These hot days a body can get awful sticky...
We had a stroll around town and discovered it to be quite interesting. We could see from that first stop that it had a hydro-electric scheme, and also a flight of locks, but more interesting engineering came to view.
First there was this railway bridge. Now why would you need to lift an inland bridge 27m?
An egghead holding an egg
Water control gate for the hydro-electric dam intakes
A cutting for the h-e water leading past a nice old church
Believe it or not, but these were to be locks, hewn from solid rock but never finished.
And looking down same
It's art, innit.
This is one arm of the river,the other going behind those trees on the left
Some fancy aircraft engineering as well.
Our shady campsite.
Showerometer: 17
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