Wednesday's drive

so today has been a long day, we have been in 4 countries today!

first this morning we decided to go into Lubeck town for a walk before hitting the road. Its such a lovely place and the weather was beautiful but it changed so quickly and we got battered with hail stones!!! the wind was pretty cold then as well!

there are also a lot of jakie's in Germany we noticed!!!! haha!

after we had all taken a beating from the hail stones and managed to get back to the car we headed back to the hotel to organise the car and get ready to set off.

the sandwich shop was open quite quickly once we set of! Megs has become a professional sandwich maker, armed with cheap meat, cheese slices, some green leaves, paprika crisps & bread we had breakfast and lunch of this delicious food! maybe she should start a business with these ingredients! sandwiches ready in a flash!!!

we got to Puttgarden quite quickly today to catch the ferry over to Denmark. The crossing was a bit choppy but was fine. cost us bloody 67 euros tho! again, i would like to point out that ferries are not what i remember them to be!!! they are much nicer!!!

so into Denmark we headed. We thought that we should really stop in Denmark and actually get out the car! we pulled into an Industrial Estate!! haha! but surrounding us was Roche, St Gobain & Dong Energy. and then we got battered with hailstones again!!!!!!

the sun seemed to come out when we were in the car and as soon as we got out the car the hail & rain started!!!

We saw some beautiful scenery, and some amazingly designed bridges! there are pictures that shall be added shortly. but then we got to the toll road, 39 euros!!!!!

We decided to power through and were aiming for Sorpsborg today so we just kept driving. We passed Gothenburg pointing out the hotel malcolm & i stayed in a couple of years ago. but no time to stop there!

we had all weathers today!!! beautiful sunshine, snow, rain & hail! it was a bit mental!!!

we finally got to a place called Stromstadt, still in Sweden, and it was a lovely town so we decided to try and get accomodation there BUT the whole town was shut or the hotel that had availability for 120 quid a night!!!

so we got back in the car and did the last half hour to Sorpsborg. the only hotel available is Hotel Olav! i tell you something, i do not feel safe in this place! its like a doss house!! but the bed & bathroom are clean so its a place to rest our heads. think we are going to try and do a runner in the morning since the check in guy never asked for any details or anything so if we dont see him in the morning then we are outta here!!!

we have a communal toilet right across the hall from our room echoes all over the the place!!! looks like a long night and lack of sleep ahead!!!

early start tomorrow, think we are up and away sharp.

we have decided to re-plan our route a bit to enable us to get to the end of the rally at the same time as the other cars.

so tomorrow we are heading to Trondheim to catch some snow!!! then we are looking for a half way stop between tronheim and oulo. oulo is about a 15 hour drive from tronheim so we dont want to do it all on friday.