With the Midsummer holiday over, we saw signs of life in Växjö. But we left town anyway. It was our last day in Sweden. We had breakfast at the hotel and they had Swedish pancakes! They are so thin, about six or seven of them are only a quarter-inch thick. They are tasty!

We decided to take a rural route to Copenhagen. It was easy driving, very Connecticut-like. Norway is so rugged and Sweden has gentle rolling hills with lots of arable land. I’m sure it led to many differences between the two cultures, but having spent only two weeks in the two countries, we’re not sure what they are.

Now we’re in Denmark for one last night. The hotel here is really nice and it’s next to a mall. We were here two weeks ago and found everything closed for Sunday. It turns out the malls open on the first and fourth Sunday of each month. We had coffee at a café in the mall and did some reading on our iPads. We’re both reading Stieg Larsson novels (I’m on the first one, she’s on the third one). How cool is it to do that in Sweden (and Copenhagen?)

We only have three days in this whole trip where we have to get going early in the morning. Tomorrow is one of those days; it will be our second longest driving day as we head back to Germany. We need to make the 11am ferry if we want to get there in the late afternoon. But at least we’ll be back on the Autobahn!

We think we bought out last tank of gasoline today. We should have enough to make it the rest of the way. Overall, we’re at just over 20 mpg for the whole trip. Sweden has a gas station chain called Preem. They have a cute bear for a logo.

The prices are in SEK (Swedish krone) and that’s the cheapest gas we bought on the whole trip, a little less than eight dollars per gallon.