Home Sweet home...

After a 3 long weeks of driving and traveling, we made it home at last! This was the longest trips we have taken so far... I mean it's really far, about 8,000 km and we are driving most of the time! Wow.... it's an adventurous but tiring trip. Matthew as usual was a great traveler - thanks to all the in-car entertainment that kept him occupied.

I must say Norway is the best among the 3 countries however it's the most expensive! We had hamburger and fries almost everyday as it's the cheapest which is about 15 euros per meal. Somethings that I noticed after looking at the photos... I gained much fat toward the end of the trip... thanks to those Coke and fries ~~~~@@@@@~~~~ really depressing... need to work out more when Matthew is back to school.

Anyway, Norway had many beautiful fjords...the driving was eventful - meeting cow, sheep, goats on the road and of cos many pretty scenery!

Take a good look at the photos of the pretty fjords taken by my brave Hubby as he stood under the rain to capture all these pretty shots. All these are taken in Norway - Oslo, Lillehammer, Geiranger, Bergen and Kristiansand.

I will post more photos of Sweden and Denmark...

A little update on the vacation!

It's been a relax but tiring trip so far! We are now in Lillehammer, a little town in Norway where they held the 94' Winter Olympic. Weather was somehow cloudy with little drizzle and rain.

It's been almost 2 weeks and we have been to Malmo, Kalmar, Oland, Stockholm, Uppsala and Goteborg in Sweden and Oslo in Norway. We'll continue our journey in Norway with the famous fjords cruise.

Here's some photos for a review!

Changing of guard at Denmark's palace

The Little mermaid

One of the ride in Tivoli garden

One of the many castles

One of the most spectacular buildings in the world - 90º Twisted Building - a skyscraper in Malmo,Sweden



A square in Stockholm

Vasa - a warship that was sank on her maiden voyage and was salvaged after more than 300 years.

One of Matthew's Favourite - canon

At Uppsala museum


The largest hemispherical building in the world and at the same time the largest scale model of the solar system is the Ericsson Globe

It's on one of the many islands in sweden


One of the many cravings during the Iron age - it's an Unesco site

Hitting the grand vacances!

3 days ago, we started our long vacation of the year. It's time of the year where we have 2 months of summer vacation for school and 3 weeks of break from work during summer. And this year, DH has decided to take a big adventure trip - to the Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden and Norway). It's an exotic place where it's not so common and we are going to drive ... do you know how far it is? I think maybe a few thousand KM away but don't know how far, all I know is it's very far away from France.

As usual, we set off on Friday nite...drove for 5 hrs to Reims in France. We were caught in a traffic jam in Clermont, took almost an hour to leave Clermont... can you imagine how bad it is? I was taking the wheel and with a manual gear, I almost have leg cramps, it's bad!

On sat morning, we set off at around 9.30am, knowing that we would be in the car for the whole day, we had some movies ready for Matthew. We were heading to Hamburg, Germany and it took us about 10hrs to get there. There was one moment when we drove across a few borders in 5 mins...although there's no need to stop but it's was interesting to cut across 3 countries in these 5 mins. There were many road construction which slowed down the driving. It's tiring but overall was manageable. As it was late, we took a quick stroll around to get our dinner. DH somehow lost his way and we accidentally hit the "red-light district". It's not as prominent as the one in Amsterdam but it's not a nice walk.

Finally on Sunday, we are hitting Denmark - Copenhagen, officially starting our tour. We drove for about 5 hr from Hamburg to Copenhagen which include a ferry ride of about 45mins. Finally got to the hotel and head to the very first sight - the Little mermaid. The statue of little mermaid were right off the shore and it's where the fairy-tale story begins. Next we hitted the Tivoli garden, it's a garden and it also an adventure park with all kind of adventure rides. To my surprise, Matthew who used to be so afraid of even the merry-go-round, loves the park and took many of the interesting and scary rides... I think he's ready for Disneyland!

Today's weather wasn't as good. It's drizzling and grey the whole day. We went to see the changing of guards at Amalienborg palace... not as grand as the one in Buckingham palace. We also visited the stoget (longest pedestrian street for shoppers), round tower and have our lunch alongside the canal... just like boat quay area.

It's still very cloudy as we get back the hotel.... we are now going out for our dinner .... will update again soon!