Day Twenty Six Sunday 14th August

A  stop in Malung to download the Sunday Times and then it was just an hour's drive to reach the Lake Siljan area. The road, the E45 is simply stunning, stretching into the distance through lakes and big forested hills, with very little traffic. An unscheduled stop at the forestry museum, where there were all kinds of local craft stalls, and then on to Solleron, an almost-island in the lake. The first campsite we stopped at was pretty packed so we continued a little further to a small lakeside site with minimal facilities. It is looked after on a voluntary basis by the villagers, and has fire pits and stone barbecues available, and a log store. There are two little sheds, each with a loo which is just a wooden bench with hole (with a little wooden cover like a saucepan lid) and a drop into a large plastic bag lined hole.! The doors have graphic wood carvings attached to them to indicate male and female!!
I got my walking poles out, for the first time I'm ashamed to say, and we enjoyed a lovely lakeside walk and back through the woods, getting caught in the rain just in the last 5 minutes.
Now, after supper, it is a lovely bright and peaceful evening, with just the crackle of a couple of wood fires.  We are one of half a dozen campervans spread out under the trees, with a view over the sunlit lake to the open hills opposite.