We spent three days in Stockholm, Sweden and never once saw Swedish Meatballs on a menu or Swedish Fish in a store? What’s up with that?

Overall we found Stockholm to be a little dreary and maybe a little gloomy, at least compared to Copenhagen. Could be two reasons for that; it was somewhat rainy where Copenhagen had been sunny and we didn’t like our hotel that much. But even with that, people in Stockholm seem less cheerful than in Copenhagen.

But we’re outta there anyway having pulled into Oslo tonight. The ride across Sweden is just beautiful. It starts out, like, well, Connecticut. Lots of trees, farms and small-ish towns. But then it becomes much more like Washington. You know you are getting close to Norway. The terrain becomes hillier, deciduous trees give way to evergreens and you see a lot of lakes and rivers, all running north-south. It’s glacier country, or was.

We struggled for a while to find a bank, but eventually did in a small town called ‘Ski’. We picked up our fourth currency, Norwegian Krone (NOK), about five to a dollar. [Swedish Krone (SEK) are about six to a dollar and Danish Krone (DDK) are also about five to a dollar. Plus the Euro (about a buck-fifty each) in Germany.]

This is also our fourth capital after Stockholm/Sweden, Copenhagen/Denmark and Berlin/Germany. So far we’ve put just under 1,300 miles on the car. We’re getting about 22 mpg.

We had a great dinner in Oslo at ‘New Orleans’ including Creole food and live jazz. It’s still light out; sunset is at nearly 11pm. Sunrise comes early, before 4am, makes it hard to sleep late!