Originally Posted by Ronnie79

Hi!

I'm from Sweden and think I could give you some tips. First of all, Norway is approx 20-50% more expensive than Sweden.
The south(Skåne) is very flat, almost no forest and pretty boring nature but plenty of good MC roads.
If you go along the west coast you must se the beautiful beaches between Halmstad and Falkenberg. The beach in the small village of Haverdal is my favorite. I'll lived there before.
Now I live in Rättvik, whick is about 250km north west of Stockholm. Up here there's more mountains and more forest and almost every house is red with white "corners"(don't know the word in english), real Swedish idyll.
If you hedding this way you can camp in my yard if you want to. I'll get you some swedish meetballs or whatever you english thinks exotic I can also give you some tips or show you around in Dalarna if you want. Want nothing but a smile in return.
I've a lot of biker friends in Halmstad as well if you want to meet some good people there. They will love to show you around.

In June there's a big motorcycle meeting on Gotland. I've been there a few times, a lot of bike fun and party! But I won't go there this year, saving money for my overland trips.

Skip the big straight roads, and head for the smaller ones.

Here is a link to a page which shows the best motorcykelroads in Sweden!
Only good, curvy roads are marked. Vägtips - Bike

Feel free to ask anything or if you want help with translation, always glad to help an overlander!

I hope you enjoy Sweden!

Originally Posted by Adam1809

Swedish seems like a particularly hard one!

Originally Posted by Ronnie79

Hi!
I'm from Sweden and think I could give you some tips. First of all, Norway is approx 20-50% more expensive than Sweden.

Originally Posted by indu

Come again?! 20-50%?? I know it's a bit cheaper in Sweden, but 50%?? Please show me! I'll be over in a sec!

However, you need to realize that it is as all else in life: You get what you pay for. Sweden is cheap - Norway not

Originally Posted by Adam1809

Just to re-open this thread briefly - Does anyone know where I one can get practical sized maps for biking, i.e ones that fit in a map pocket on a tank bag?

I used a binder style one for France which was fantastic, however, finding one for Scandinavia is proving difficult - they are either huge and simply not practical or tiny witha stupidly large scale and therefore show know windy 'A' type roads just the main highways?!

Your help is as always much appreciated!

Originally Posted by Walkabout

Hi Adam,
On the back of my 1: 1 000 000 Michelin map is listed:-

752 Norway
711 Scandinavia and Finland
753 Sweden

etc

Originally Posted by Indoors

If you're near London (or Bristol), pop into Stanfords map shop which has maps for everywhere in all sizes and scales.

I did a quick search of their website, this was the only spiral-bound one I could find, but it might be too big.

Scandinavia Road Atlas: Freytag & Berndt - Road Atlases from Stanfords


Or maybe this: A3 Spiralbound Road Atlas 1129: Europe 2008

Indoors (who's in a good mood because Spurs are on their way to Wembley!!)

Originally Posted by Adam1809

Thanks so much for looking mate, I think the best bet is going to be to buy a Spiral version of just sweden and take a fold up of the remaining countries incase we venture into them!