{"id":795,"date":"2014-07-22T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T21:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2014-07-22T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T22:20:41","slug":"on-to-the-next-adventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/on-to-the-next-adventure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"On to the Next Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, it was time to leave Djurby! We had such a good time with Tim,\u00a0Annalena and the whole family! We worried that we were keeping them from\u00a0doing their normal things, but Annalena insisted that they enjoyed doing\u00a0the activities with us that they otherwise may not have gotten around to.<\/p>\n

We took off a little after 10 AM and for the first time, we were on our\u00a0own in Sweden. We would have to figure things out ourselves and hope\u00a0that the GPS was up to the task! Janie can no longer drive a stick\u00a0shift, so unlike the days that I shared the driving with Tim, I was doing\u00a0all the driving, and we didn’t want to push it. We drove about 350 km
\n(210 miles) on each of the next two days, so it was not overly taxing.\u00a0It is a different experience to be on our own. We had it easy with\u00a0someone giving us driving directions and translating for us. Now we had\u00a0to rely on the GPS and hope the people we came in contact with could help\u00a0us translate. (Most people in Sweden speak English very well, though.)<\/p>\n

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View of our hotel from the pedestrian street<\/p><\/div>\n

When we arrived in Trollh\u00e4tten, we couldn’t find our hotel! The GPS was\u00a0leading us to a street that was pedestrian only. (Many cities in Sweden\u00a0have converted some of their streets to pedestrian only.) In addition,\u00a0there was a huge market (street fair) going on along this street. We\u00a0finally stopped and called the hotel and they explained that we had to
\ndrive about 1\/2 block up the pedestrian-only street to the entrance of\u00a0their parking lot! We had to drive very<\/span> carefully, because the street\u00a0was packed!<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0603<\/a>The hotel was quaint, built in the 1930’s with a tiny\u00a0antique elevator. The room was small but comfortable enough. We got\u00a0settled and then went down to enjoy the street fair.<\/p>\n

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The street fair\u00a0was bigger, but\u00a0not as nice as the one in Pajala. This one had block after block of the\u00a0same imported T-shirts, jewelry and cell phone cases. In Pajala, there\u00a0was authentic food and crafts (in addition to the cheap, imported goods).<\/p>\n

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There was also a live concert going on that night. Although it was\u00a0quite noisy with the sound of people and music, the babble of people sounded like a river. We had no trouble\u00a0sleeping and were all ready to go in the morning.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, it was time to leave Djurby! We had such a good time with Tim,\u00a0Annalena and the whole family! We worried that we were keeping them from\u00a0doing their normal things, but Annalena insisted that they enjoyed doing\u00a0the activities with us … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daideo.com\/elusiveblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}