1.148 km, 3 Ladies and 1 Car

Sunday 23th of September Fran, Jacquie and I flew to Gothenburg, Sweden to pick up Fran's brand new Volvo XC90.

We started at Fran's house around 11.30 - Michelle dropped us at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport approx. 1 hour later.

We had to wait there because check in didn't start before 1.30 p.m. But we had a good cup of Cappuccino and a good time in a restaurant in between. After checking in we had to wait again but it wasn't boring at all! Jacquie showed us some really interesting pictures on her digital camera and soon we could pass the last checkpoint to go to the airplane.

It's a long time ago that I entered an airplane like this, just walking the maneuvering area where the aircrafts were waiting like busses at a bus station here in Germany.

But if you take a closer look you can see that you don't miss the right plane because they write the destination on a little sign (underneath the "B1" sign).

We landed 2 hours later in Gothenburg, where we were picked up and dropped at a hotel. Later we did some kind of sight seeing and looking for a restaurant, which was finally a swedish steak house; we all ordered salmon...

Gothenburg Impressions

On Monday at 9 a.m. we again were picked up to get to "Volvo Land" to see Fran's new car. Isn't it fancy?

After a wonderful lunch at Volvo's and a tour through the Volvo factory we started 2:30 p.m. in Gothenburg to drive back to Germany. Just four more pictures from that trip: we had a short stop at a parking lot beside the highway, you can see the sea in the backround!

And the impressively huge and long Öresund Bridge as we enter the bridge,

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halfway in the middle of the bridge

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and - finally - in the rearview mirror of the car as we entered Denmark

We then crossed Denmark and went onto the ferry to get to Fehmarn Island, which we also crossed that evening to get to german mainland. We got there at about 10 p.m. , found a much over-priced room for the three of us to get some sleep and continued on the road at 7 a.m. the next morning. We finished the trip back at Fran's house about 2.15 p.m, Tuesday 25th of September.

And that's how it looks on a map: