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Our UK Camping forum has all the information you need on finding the right equipment for your tent or caravan.

I also want to know about camping in scandinavia with kids

25 replies

Fillyjonk · 07/02/2007 11:23

have camped in scandinavia without kids

for some reason i have a block about doing it with kids.

any old scandinavia will do, though i do love sampi (arctic circle)

is it really expensive ? tips? take it a car is needed?

i would have a 2 yo and a 4 yo. they are good at travelling.

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TooTicky · 07/02/2007 11:34

When we stayed on farms in Sweden it was surprisingly not too expensive and camping should be less. Of course you can camp anywhere (within reason) free because of allemansrätten.

TooTicky · 07/02/2007 11:34

In Sweden, that is.

MrsMills · 07/02/2007 11:38

You can come and camp in our back garden.

We even have an outdoor toilet, though no toilet roll. We're in woodland and 200 metres from beach. However you will have to share with some wild animals! And the 2 ds's

MrsMills · 07/02/2007 11:38

On second thoughts you'd be better off on a campsite

TooTicky · 07/02/2007 11:44

Where are you MrsMills? I'm curious

Fillyjonk · 07/02/2007 18:49

tick i was going to email you about cheap insiders knowlege. the issue with farms tbh is the co-sleeping, we have 2 kids in with us and camping just seemed easier. am i wrong here? is sweden a haven of cosleeping? please tell me it is, ta.

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TooTicky · 08/02/2007 12:58

One of the places we stayed in had an enormous bed but the others were decidedly single-bedded throughout. However, you could look at Bo På Lantgård as the farms tend to give details of their beds. Here .
Get them to send you a catalogue though as it's easier than trawling through the website. Plus you can carry it around with you and dream

MrsMills · 08/02/2007 13:02

I'm in Stockholm!

TooTicky · 08/02/2007 13:26

Fabulous!
(Have you got much snow at the moment?)

MrsMills · 08/02/2007 13:38

Well we have a fair bit, but nowhere near as much as last winter, at the moment it's mostly ice (about a foot thick) with a few inches of snow on top.
The sea has frozen over enough where we are to skate on, to give you an idea of how cold it is.
So you like it here in Sweden then? Have you been to STockholm before?

TooTicky · 08/02/2007 14:08

Wow!! Yes, we love Sweden. I visited Stockholm very briefly several years ago. More recently we have stayed in Skåne, Blekinge and Småland. I want a stuga!!!

MrsMills · 08/02/2007 14:20

Well you've certainly seen more of Sweden that we have!

The past year we've spent getting to know Stockholm, and some of the archipelago, but hopefully this summer we'll go to Dalarna and we're planning on going up to Kiruna at the end of the year.

Strangely I haven't met many people who've been to Sweden, it's always on their list of places they would like to go to one day but never got round to iykwim?

TooTicky · 08/02/2007 14:24

I think Sweden is addictive! How long have you been there? I take it you're not Swedish...

MrsMills · 08/02/2007 14:32

No we're English and we've been only been here just over a year. DH works for a Swedish company and they moved us all out here as they want him to become 'one of them'.

So we arrived not speaking a word of Swedish and now DS1 is nearly fluent! We are finding it a bit harder but everyone speaks such good English it's difficult to have a whole converstion without them speaking English.

Yes it is a fab country and tbh I'm happy that it's not that well trodden. And children free bananas in the supermarkets. Has to be a bonus!

TooTicky · 08/02/2007 14:48

I am really quite
I know what you mean about people speaking English back to you - most frustrating! How old is your ds1? Is he at school?
Free bananas? That sounds like fun.
We're really hoping to get to Sweden this year but I don't know if we will - we couldn't afford to go last year either
I just love the lakes and forests. We've still to see a wild elk though.

MamaCampbellBlack · 08/02/2007 14:57

oh wow, I've just ordered a catalogue, thanks sooo much it looks wonderful

Fillyjonk · 09/02/2007 07:18

we saw reindeer in sampi, does that count?

mrs mills am sooooo . i love stockholm. am remembering open air park and art gallery. oh god you can't go wrong...

please elaborate on bananas

am toying with farm idea

is there lots of smoking? can't remember.

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lapsedrunner · 09/02/2007 07:29

Oh, I;ve just saved the farm stay link to my "favourites". Always on the lookout for great holiday ideas. I have been to Sweden once and loved it.

MrsMills · 09/02/2007 08:46

Well the bananas - Supermarkets all have a large barrel of bananas (sometimes apples) which are free to children who are shopping with their parents, they're to eat whilst you are walking round the shop. I suppose it serves lots of purposes, and its not all the crap fruit either. Simple, but very effective.

DS1 is 6 and goes to a Swedish school, they are all learning English there too (starting at 5), and he also receives 2 hours English tuition for himself per week (this is a law in Sweden), as it's his mother tongue. He skis, skates, fishes and swims with the school, and there's only 9 in his class, so it is a great place despite my current grumblings.

As for the wildlife, well we have deer, red squirrels, foxes, pheasants and all manner of birds in our garden regularly. A few kilometres north and I have seen and elk with her 2 calves and also wild pigs with their offspring. You can even go on a wild pig safari! So although we're only 8 kms north of the city centre we are surrounded by woods and water. And there's a ski slope 2 kms away - small but perfectly formed .

The open air park would have been Skansen, which is on Djurgården, which is also where Junibacken lies. It's just a fab place for kids (and adults too).

Well they have outlawed smoking in restaurants and bars now, but overall no. there's not much smoking. Snuss is more popular now.

But of course with every country it does have it's downsides, but not so many that I would want to leave just yet.

Fillyjonk · 09/02/2007 08:55

ok I know there are issues re coffee and pringles but I am so you have no IDEA

just to further my pipe dreaming a little further...does your dp actually speak swedish? was this in any way a bar to his employment?

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Fillyjonk · 09/02/2007 08:56

9 kids in the class

we are HEing because, apart from anything else, there are not 9 kids per class round here

We have always said that we will consider moving to find a decent school though...

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MrsMills · 09/02/2007 09:02

No, neither of us could speak a word when we arrived. He was already working for a Swedish company in the U.K. (makers of fine fridges and vacuum cleaners ), and they moved us al out here.

The major problem I am finding with the schooling is lack of discipline. DS came from a very oridnary British primary school where it was very much sitting at desks, uniforms, set schedules etc. Here it is very different and it's taking quite some getting used to for all of us. Of course, they don't actually start proper school until they are 7 so perhaps things will change then.

And whilst child care is relatively free, taxes is v v high.

Fillyjonk · 09/02/2007 09:19

i do know several swedes and they all seem quite disciplined . perhaps all the coffee and no pringles .

Do you have an ice palace there, btw?

hmm am formulating a Plan here...

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MrsMills · 09/02/2007 09:36

Not an ice palace, but an ice bar

TooTicky · 09/02/2007 13:41

I am super of all your lovely wildlife.

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