Esther_Travel Blog

Living in a camping car for a few weeks kind of ‘forces’ you to be close to other people, not only in a physical sense, so it is also a good activity to do with friends as a long term ‘team building’ activity. You cook together with friends or as a family, in this case, and you have lots of fun, which is most important. It is very practical as well, because it is like a house on wheels, so you can even cook ‘on the road’. Photo of our camping car at the Lake Åsnen resort. We had a sunshield which protected us from the sun when we ate.  I find that one of the big profits is that you can go into a supermarket like any other person living in that area, and buy anything they would, as well as see what there is available in that area (supermarkets are very different in many countries.) If you were in a hotel you wouldn’t buy any food, and if you would, it would probably just be a snack, meaning you will not get the whole range of things they have, for example a jam m...

Last summer (2017) I travelled to Sweden with my family. We rented a camping car there and set off our journey to be free to explore the south of Sweden. Our tour started at Malmö, and we took the train to Hässleholm, where we picked up our camping car that we had rented through airbnb . We spent the first night at ‘Lake Åsnen Resort’ in ‘Getno Gård’, but it was so nice that we stayed for four whole days instead of one! Today we woke up very early because we had many things planned, and we wanted to get them all done. In the morning, I biked to the bakery to get traditional Swedish bread, which is quite sweet in comparison to the Austrian one, because they add sirup (the sirup is added because the days are very dark there sometimes, and sugar helps liven up the spirit). I don't really know why, but there is something really satisfying about biking to a bakery in the morning and passing all of the other camping cars on your way. Then we went to a typical old Swedish villa...