Journey Begins

Well, I couldn't update this blog for quite sometime. I'm still wondering where to begin. May be I can start from the first day of our journey.
The journey began just as we scheduled. We left home at 4 am and to stay in schedule we made snacks for breakfast.
No sooner we realized the biggest mistake we made, that was scheduling the departure in Christmas eve. Though we had food to eat and plenty of water to quench the thirst we forgot the basic fact that we need to stop at least once in every 200km to switch the drivers and to use WC. Since it was the Christmas eve most of the shops were closed. This made our first day very hectic. But we were still fresh to the journey and the limit of tolerance was so high. So the enthusiasm remained unspoiled.

Well.. well... after driving for so many long hours, nearly after 2o hours we reached Linkoping. Then the time was around 12 in the night. We all were so tired and dead hungry. There was no place to buy food. fortunately we had some instant noodles and salmon tins. That supplied our dinner.

Let me give you one piece of advice, take as much instant food as possible. like noodles, instant pasta, soup cubes, preserved salmon tins, canned meat balls. They come in handy in many situations like this. The actual time to reach your destination will be the time suggested by google maps + 2 hours. If you have a baby on board, it may go beyond 4 extra hours, remember you have to stop to clean the diapers. So when you reach the destination the shop will be closed.

Let me come back to Linkoping. The hostel in Linkoping was so good, we forgot the long day we had and the long day ahead of us the moment we landed on the comfortable bed. That room was more like a studio. Here is the link to the hostel webisite - http://www.lvh.se/index.php/vandrarhem
The pictures below are taken by me.