Friday 18th July

Morning campers! Today saw us having the honour of James leading us out for the first part of our day.

Lovely James

Off the morphine and (sort of) allowed to drive, James led us out towards Dalby wherre he left us to return home. Here we saw a historical viking headstone at the Bridge of the Lords, a popular passing place back in the day. It used to be a ford and was called Ford of the Lords originally.

We decided to take a lickle walk into the conservation area before we carried on. We wandered along for about 20 minutes, avoiding the slugs, then jumped back into our cars to head towards Rostanga and the Soderasens National Park with Bob leading us.

Off we set for Rostanga, and the National Park, where James had promied us a decent view of a fault (the landslide type). There we had lunch before heading off for the fault. After a bit of debate about which way to walk, we settled on what was probably the longst routre and eventually arrived at the top of the hill, somewhat hot and sweaty, to see what all the fuss was about.

After our descent, we bought an ice cream, served by the world’s lowest attendant, then off we headed for our return to James, this time using the satnav which resulted in a couploe of U turns and some slightly frazled drivers!

On our return we met up with two more fellow Marlin owners, Jan and Christina from Gottenburg who were in a Westfield but were soon to launch their new Sportster which was a month away from being on the road. Hello both.

Many thanks to Dave for being chief chef this evening and supervising a wonderful spagetti bolognaise. And thanks to Keith and Margaret for the lovely fruit salad dessert again!

Another good day out, more superb weather, we all managed to leave our indicators on at some point and we annoyed a van driver who couldnät get past us at one point. All in all the Swedish drivers are very tolerant of us, particularly when we stop on the side of the road to check where we are and they have to squeeze past.