Cake, rolls, apples and coffee liberated from breakie, all apart from coffee are in the boot so I can't graze.
24th Jun 2018 7:50 am
Gazellio
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Your certainly living the life. Adventure all the way. Well done that man.
24th Jun 2018 8:26 am
Gazellio
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Looking at your route I drove that road from Jonkoping and then headed down the east coast road and found some amazing sandy beaches. I had driven from the Norwegian mountains in one hit after three days of not stop rain. I was surprised by how "Mediterranean" the Baltic beaches were!
24th Jun 2018 8:30 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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That’s Finland on a sunny winters day. They aren’t pedallos in the background, that’s ice!!
Couple of teasers from the Swe AF museum:
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All very Scandic Noir Vert.
24th Jun 2018 9:26 am
Grianaig
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Read some good Scandi Noir books last year. They were set around Linkoping. Beware strange people in dark forests. 2014 MY Discovery XS Indus Silver. Sadly gone. Second last LR of forty eight years continuous ownership.
24th Jun 2018 10:16 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Well that's well worth the short detour off the E4 if heading too or from Stockholm.
Now I know why they didn't want me as a fighter pilot. This the first time I've sat in the front seat of a proper fighter
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and boy is it a tight fit, reminds me of 4 days drive with knees in the dash bringing Dark Bluie bits home last year:
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Tom Cruise eat yer heart out.
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I don't know why all the pics are so dark, everything looked fine to the eye, but where the lights shone on the aircraft the pics were massively too bright. Some fiendish Swedish cammo paint.
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24th Jun 2018 10:21 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Grianaig wrote:
Read some good Scandi Noir books last year. They were set around Linkoping. Beware strange people in dark forests.
Now you tell me, I'm sat in a car park near Linkoping!!! Now you say it I can swear they are watching me.
Time to get on the road again and cut the corner to miss Stockholm.
24th Jun 2018 10:24 am
Gareth Site Moderator
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Del, if your using an IPhone to take your pics, just before you take the pic touch the actual subject on the screen your trying to photograph. Backlight will adjust to suit. 👍
24th Jun 2018 10:29 am
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Tried that, flash on, flash off, anything I could try I did. It was weird. The the Bo105 in the centre, it had a light on it and to my eye it looked normal green cammo, on the screen it was like in the pic, absolutely shouting light.
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Anyway, I've adjusted what I could adjust and here's a few pics for the fellow aviation fans.
Another shot of the Sea Knight
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Twin seat Griffen sporting Mavericks, an eclectic mix
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Lovely Hunter with sidewinders
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Gorgious Mustang to keep the Spitfire company
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Can't beat a bit of Huey
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Catalina as in the Catalina Incident when the Rooskies were a bit trigger happy. Again sorry for crap pic.
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Bit of a bigger Draken than the "one" I sat in
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Great looking Viggen, looking after his young nephew, the Grippen
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Cute little MiG-15, unfortunate reporting name of Faggot.
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Unfortinately not enough room indoors for this ex-RAF ESW Canberra, its not in the best of conditions and could do with coming in doors.
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And lastly, back on the E4 and clocked these two cheeky chappies making a bid for freedom!!
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24th Jun 2018 4:43 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Oh, and view from the hotel room tonight, a bit of an improvement on last night.
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Only down side of those lovely paths is I'm off running on them before breakie tomorrow. Prob only do a leisurely ~6k, depending on whether I get lost or not. SWMBO suggested I run around the lake. No, it's a piggin big lake! No rest for the weary.
PS and a MEGA to Pat@GAP for giving us the km/hr in the digital speedo whilst keeping everything else in old money/imperial. It's been an absolute life saver with all the speed cameras on Swedish roads.
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And to LR for not being ar$ed to even put the km/hr band in the main speedo.
24th Jun 2018 4:49 pm
BBDisco3
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DSL wrote:
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24th Jun 2018 6:47 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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And I think I read that book as a little 'un. Deffo a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Well Dalkeith in reality.
24th Jun 2018 6:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Morning chaps!! Tis a boooooootiful morning, run done (shorter than planned), breakfast being enjoyed and watching two Swedish footie pundits do their thing in Swedish on the TV. The latter is more interesting in Swedish!!
Not a long day today, up to Umea for the ferry to Finland tomorrow. Going to go via that other aviation museum that I didn’t get to yesterday. For those watching the blue dot crawl north:
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Did you do your morning run at the hotel?
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25th Jun 2018 7:21 am
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Great pictures and videos. You are upping the minimum requirements on write-ups for road trips. Looking at the tolls for the bridges makes me think the tunnel tolls during my trip were quite reasonable.2005, TDV6 S, Auto, 190k miles, owned from new, V8 Brake Upgrade, Nancom Evo, RLD protector, BAS EGR blanking & Remap, separate ATF cooler, changing all the fluids ahead of time.
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to LR for not being ar$ed to even put the km/hr band in the main speedo.
