Blogs from Värmland County, Sweden, Europe - page 2

Visited the Haverud aqueduct on the way to the 'Tree-House' following day we went to Karlstad for 2 nights. On Saturday we visited Glaskogen Nature Reserve, where we saw a snake (Probably a grass snake, but too quick for the action photographer. On Sunday we visited Nora and then got lost in Garphyttan National Park near Örebro. Common crane and a Great Spotted Woodpecker on this trip.... read more

Hi and sorry for not been active latley.. Since my last post I have been to Austria and got there by Austrian Arrows, (Fokker 100 and Dash 8Q400). Which was really great! Would love to go by Dash again, such a beautiful airplane :) And I have been planespotting at Stockholm Arlanda when the big boy Antonov An225 Mriya got there to pick up freight to Korea :) However, at the moment I got another 5 flights booked, one in just 14 days when I'm comming home from my sister by a Skyways Fokker 50 from Stockholm to Karlstad. And then I got flights booked to Prague in May, flying Lufthansa from Oslo via Munich to Prague. A319/ERJ195/ERJ195/A319. First time for me on both A319, ERJ195 and A320 so that's even moore than Awesome! at last ... read more

Filipstad, 22.07.2011. Wir sind nun definitiv in Südschweden angekommen wir nähern uns dem Vänernsee. Zur Zeit machen wir in Filipstad Station. Auf dem Munkeberg Campingplatz am Ortsrand haben wir Platz gefunden. In Filipstad kann man einen gut fünf Kilometer langen beschilderten Rundgang ablaufen, den „Sli - Hälsans Stig“. Er führt an einigen Sehenswürdigkeiten der Stadt vorbei. Unter anderem am John Ericssons Mausoleum. Ericssons konstruierte für die Nordstaaten im amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ein Kriegsschiff welches entscheidend in die Schlacht eingriff. Ericssons gilt seitdem in Amerika als Kriegsheld. Eine kleine Nachbildung des Schiffes, sowie zwei der Kanonen sind am See zu sehen. Zudem wurde in und um Filipstad bis 1920 in Hochöfen Roheisen hergestellt. Gleich neben dem Campingplatz steht die „Storbrohyttan“ eine Anlage, die zwischen 1853 – 67 gebaut wurde. Leider konnten wir s... read more

Wow! What a day! A part of travel is to explore your surroundings, ecotravel. Your do it best by foot or bicykle, to go by car is to go too far ;) So, now I am going to take you on a small trip around my home. I live in a tiny village called Jössefors, just about 9 km away from Arvika in western Värmland, Sweden. During the week I was in Sicily with my sister everything has turned from grey and boring to green and fresh! When we got home we said "What?!! Is it summer already?". We had missed a whole season during one week. The birds are singing and yesterday I felt the smell of "fresh cut grass" for the first time this year. But however, now to the ecotravel! First I took ... read more

One of the motorclubs had a meet near our place so as the weather was nice we passed for a look.... read more