We set off from Oslo around 1pm, with Norway offering us showers right up to the end. We went straight through the border around 2.30pm and as we did, we clocked up our first 5,000 kms of our European Kombi venture. We drove along a poor road through to Karstad, with at least an attractive backdrop of lakes and forests of fir trees most of the way. The road then improved, along with the weather, with odd shows of sunshine even, allowing us to make it a very quick trip through to just short of Stockholm by 8.30pm, an average for the day of around 70kph. We set up for the night in a little parking bay outside a luxury house just out of Sodertalje. We were up early next morning and into Stockholm by 8am,
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