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Our first stop for the night was at First Hotel Strand in Sundsvall where we got to dig into a typical Swedish breakfast which includes yogurt and sourmilk (Filmjölk) along with all types of nuts – pine nuts, sunflower seeds, walnuts, flax seeds, Brazilian nuts, almonds, and more – as well as various types of dried fruit.
For me, roadtrips are an excuse to totally pig out on junk food while traveling. Our hamburger stop was at Max (Sweden’s oldest hamburger chain) in Sundsvall, where one of the longest and most patient queues known to man was waiting. Mostly because food is always cooked to order. Not microwaved. And people (myself included) seem to be willing to queue for freshly-made food.
A few minutes outside of Sundsvall (about 210 miles north of Stockholm), an old rusty tugboat caught my eye, and we stopped to stretch our legs at a place called Svartvik (“Black Bay”) which looked like an abandoned industrial site of an old shipping yard as well as the final resting place of the tugboat.
Though it was a warm spring day (around 12°c), the nearby bay was still frozen solid enough to scuttle across in some parts. I wasn’t taking any chances.
Every summer, we usually make the 12-hour (14-hours with Max hamburger stops in Sundsvall and Skellefteå) journey to spend time with family in Luleå in Northern Sweden. The scenic route runs along the Gulf of Bothnia and Baltic Sea, occasionally cutting through villages lined with Falu red cottages along the way.
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