Ciao Norway, Ay'up Sweden

Not so much sightseeing today as we needed to make some significant progress towards Sweden. Our route first took us to Gjøvik to have a quick look at the Olympic ice arena that was built inside a mountain. We managed to sneak in and had access-all-areas until Russ tried to walk along the roof gantry. All in all, very impressive.

We headed on towards the border and took a brief stop in Fredrikstad. The old town was pleasant enough but the charging for parking and to look at the museum of the town felt too much like a rip off.

At the border Russ was very keen to get pictures of "the motor" with the expected Norway and Sweden signs, although as it turns out these were hard to find. We entered Sweden, came back to Norway and then once more over the toll bridge completed our international excursion.

Despite Jens' promises of better roads once we were in his native land, much of the promised motorway down to Gothenburg is yet to be built. Although Sweden's speed cameras look like they're from this century compared to their Norwegian counterparts, they were still reasonably plentiful so keeping our average speed in check.

After checking into the Radisson SAS in Göteborg (very nice) we headed out to the bright lights of the big city for dinner. Whilst Norway has the better scenery in terms of the landscape at least, it has to be noted that Sweden does do somewhat better in the young lady department. :-)