Back to Goteborg

This morning we checked out of the Kulturstallet B&B outside of Ystad.  It was a wonderful room but not a night with wonderful sleep.  We are both still suffering a little from colds acquired before we left the USA.  We had a great breakfast of freshly baked rolls, soft boiled eggs, cold cuts & cheese brought to our room where we could eat in our bathrobes.  Well, if the truth be known, we didn't even don the bathrobes.  Nuff said.

Since Bev said that yesterday's pictures didn't do the B&B justice:

We're packing up.

To show you how isolated the B&B is:

This is not a driveway.  This is a street in Sweden:

In sunshine again this morning instead of yesterday's rain, we head back into Ystad:

and find a farmer's market:

with an abundance of lingenberries:

We then head west (past Malmo) and north back to Goteborg in order to deliver our car for shipping first thing in the morning.  We have forsaken our stay in Hoganas for a (very nice) Best Western in an industrial section of suburban Goteborg:

It was our longest day of driving of the trip, about five and a half hours elapsed time with a significant amount of time taking a detour to Vargas to visit an Espresso House in late afternoon.  Well worth it.

We finally had a Garmin problem who, up until now, had been absolutely flawless in taking us every single place we specified.  It became apparent that Garmin wasn't making sense when we got within 60Km of Goteborg (by the road signs) and Garmin said we still had another 153 MILES to go.  Eventually, I figured out that it was, of course, operator error.  Back in the USA, I had set Garmin to avoid toll roads since I didn't know how to make them work.  Sweden (and at least Norway) have a tollway system with no toll booths.  Cameras simply capture your license plate and send you the bill.  It turns out that Volvo picks up the tab for all tollways in Sweden (for overseas delivery customers) so we didn't need to worry about that.  Garmin was taking us way out of the way in order to avoid the toll road.  All I had to do was to turn off that "avoidance" and Garmin was right back on track EXCEPT for the closed road due to construction which was a pain, confusing, but which we finally got around.  We heard at checkin that it took the hotel clerk an hour and a half to get here the first time that he came.  We did much better than that.

It has been a great trip which is coming to an end.  We finish our last dinner in Sweden with one of our favorite meals whenever we travel:  wine, cheese, fruit and crackers in our hotel room:

I'll reflect more a little later.  For now, we have really enjoyed our stay.  We have seen an interesting side of Sweden that isn't on most Swedish trip itineraries.  We have loved the varied and scenic countryside, the friendly people (nearly all of whom readily spoke English with us even when we didn't start in English, which we usually did) and, of course, the food.

The Volvo seems to be a much better "road" car than the Audi as we found a stretch of expressway today with a 120KPH (75MPH) limit.  BTW, hardly anyone drives over the speed limit here including yours truly.