My set up on the road

What set up do I have on the road? Lets go through it in a fast way.

When sleeping in the car I pull out some black curtain. Thats makes it hard to see into the car (obviosly).

I have an extra leasure battery, 80 amps of 12v power. Tudor. I charge the battery from the car generator or the solar panel.

Lens mosquito? Ya, thats me. This is what the car looks like inside, car curtains and so on. A bit messy, but it is easy to move around some boxes so the bed gets "clean".

I have a book called "Experience Sweden". In this I can find interesting thing that I might "need" to check out.

Okay, so one thing you always need is water. I usually have about 15 liters so I can get by a couple of days without having to refill. Use it to drink, and brushing teeth and so on. I do not bath in it. I try to find a shower or take a bath in the see somewhere. Usually no problem in Sweden. There are always some lake or sea to use. I also have a "brassestol", do you call it "scissors chair"? The mattress you can also see a bit from.

This is when the solar panel is in use. I have a charger and controller connected to the leisure battery.

Well thats a litte tour of the setup. :)

Waking up in Rindö. Taking a bath.

Waking up in Rindö. Taking a bath. The water qualtity was great.

Bathing nude is something special. A perfect example when Less is More.

Nice bottom, and a bridge nearby.

As I said, The water quality was good, time to prove it. Three star, thats great!

This is a overview of the beach, nice little beach. And the best of all, no enoying people who disturbs the quietness.  As this is early morning, love being up early to enjoy the silence and the sound of nature, no mankind.

Stone bridge

"no comments" - just looking dum

A nice sailboat about 50 meters away from the beach. Shadowfax.

Small holidays cottages furher away. Cute ones..

After the bath I decided to stay a while since the weather was perfect. Perfect time to pull out the solarpanel and charge the battery a little since I used the computer a lot the earlier night.

Then came a girl who took some water samples. Took some pictures of her, she seemed to like that. Luckily, the water quality was really good still.

The cable to the battery goes on the outside, through the right door. "Mobile installation"

Charging the Nokia phone and checking some possibles routes to take later.

Dayview..

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Birds after sunset (Swan)

Still in Rindö, at the Grönviksbadet. Enjoying the quiet nature and Wholla, a swan family comes to visit.. How nice!

Here the little family comes paddling through the sea.

Probably the mom that the children are following, right? She was very skeptical towards me. She did not trust me. That´s my impression any way. Bad judge of charachter if I might say so. =)

Watching me while the little ones tries to find some food (diving).

Checking me out! A great parent! :-) But where were the father?

Roadtrip 2014: Big boats (Ferry) (Grönviksbadet)

Having found a nice place for the night I just relax and enjoy looking at the big boats in between working on the computer and listening to a good podcast. I love this simplicity. Feel so free! My mind can think when I´m alone. The weather were perfekt, the temperature perfect. One of the best scenery I´ve had in the car for the night. That says a lot.

Doing some notes about the day. This is a non glossy computer screen, the non glossy are useless in the car, atleast when the sun is shining. Becoms like a mirror, this doesn´t.

As you can see I found a free parking place with a great view.

As I sit here at Grönviksbadet and enjoy being close to the nature, ships are going by. I can compare the advertsing on them. Who do you think has the best look?

Since I like word I think I liked the German vessel the best.

German words: Mein Shiff 2 herzlichkeit Inspiration Lebenslust Genuss Meeresrauschen Sonnenstrahle Glücksgefühl

In Englai: My Shiff 2 heartiness inspiration lust for life pleasure ound of the sea sunbeam happiness

A german ship goes by.

Mein Schiff 2 = DAS NUMBER AUF THEM BOAT. ACHTUNG, ganz klar muss ich sagen.

Then a little later we have Silja Line with a bluish sky with clouds or something, and some ping-wins? Okey? Vale?

I´m using my 70-300 Tamron lens, it takes better pictures than the original lens.

One more, here with the car in foreground. :-)

And the vehicle that makes the road-trip possible. The Toyota Starlet of course. I´m very pleased with it. Just works. Simple, nothing fancy but itakes me from A to B without hazel.

And the we have a more whitish Viking Cinderella.

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Well, what do ya think. Which one do you like the best?

While you think about that I´ll go to sleep..

More later..

Roadtrip 2014: Going back to Rindö

A´m back with a new post.. as I promised.. :)
After looking for a place to sleep in Vaxholm I decided to go back to the previos Island Rindö, I though it might be a more relaxing envirement on the island Rindö.. Why? Because there were a lot of folks in Vaxholm and I rather sleep through the night instead of being woken by some drunks. Yah, people in Sweden cant handle alcohol very well.

The trustworthy Toyota is back on the ferry, going back to Rindö again. I got the last place on the ferry, phew.

Enjoying Stockholm archipelago once again. Love seeing and being on the water.

Another view from the carferry. Trustworty Starlet in the foreground. Sleeping bag and all that. :)

Vaxholms fortress. I really don't know why they called the place Wax Island. Perhaps they´ve made wax here before, no one knows (atleast not me, duh).. Well perhaps someone.. nah.

Looking for a place to sleep
Having been the Oskar Fredriksborg previously I knew a place there to sleep. But I still wanted to see if I could find an even better place. So I went round the Island Rindö to see what could be found. AND YES, I found a very handsomely silently place called Grönviksbadet. Here I decided so stay the night! Here some pictures!

Look at the view. Fantastic, and it doesn't it´s all free. That´s how you do it!

Here you see the Starlet parked. Beautiful scenery.

All the evening I could see big ferry's travel the water. And the light was magic. No mosquitoes either. I definitely found the right spot.

Grönviksbadet even got a "Baja Maja" as we called them in Sweden. (A place to go to the loo)

Let me tell you, I slept very well in this place! :-)

Roadtrip 2014: Vaxholm part 2

Still in Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago.

Since I took all this images, I though I share them.. This is the second part.

On the car ferry. The driver of the "ship" sits above all the cars. Nice view I guess?

The sign says: Welcome to the archipelago capitol. - or something like that!

View of the Vaxholm castle, view from Rindö

View from the other side, Vaxholm. Big Caste that became old-fashion before it was completed.

Le beach. The only one I found in this little town.

Out "Sightseeing" with the Miyata again. I actually considered this place for the night. Nice scenary. But perhaps a bit crowded? Kept searching..

Another picture of possible place to sleep for the night.

Lots of tourist

There were lots of boats out in the water.

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I then decided to go back to Rindö.. More about that later.

Roadtrip 2014: Going from Rindö to Vaxholm, part 1

Next to the island Rindö is Vaxholm. A well known tourist place in the summer. Decided to go check it out and see if I could find a nice spot for the evening. Car ferry between Vaxholm and Rindö in the Stockholm archipelago.

I think I will do two post about Vaxholm, this is the first part.

Here waiting for the ferry that will take me over to Vaxholm.

The weather showed it´best side. Lots of motorbikes out riding too.

Tried to find a place to park the car (for free) and then use the Miyata Bike to go sightseeing. There were not that many places you could park the car for free, but found some places i bit further from city of Vaxholm.

This was a nice place. Right next to a small beach. There were not many beaches here in Vaxholm.

After have checked out the city I went look for a nice place to sleep for the night. Could it be found? Here you could only park 4 hour at a time.. I later found a good place, but íll keep it to myself for know.

Other side of the water, see the picture above.

Ingenjörvägen = Engineeringroad, since I´m an engineer i took a picture of this. :)

Selfie

Back to the car. Needed to charge the phone.

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More picutres (of more or less the same thing) in part 2 of Vaxholm