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Southern sweden

Southern sweden
Bullerby is everywhere

Anyone looking for a nice rhyme for life should get to know Sweden. There is almost everything that makes small, large and motorcycling children happy.

Fred Siemer

07/02/2002

Mao or Maoam? Who or what shaped those born after the war? While sociologists are still puzzling, MOTORRAD reveals the reassuring truth: Lisa and Pippi. Dreamy explorer one, anarchic fantasy the other. Both world-class, both at home in Sweden. But that is really no coincidence; it goes back to a great woman with a sheltered and free childhood: Astrid Lindgren from Vimmerby in Smaland simply wrote down what moved her on her parents’ farm and wrote hymns to normal life. Oh, how great it would have been to have emigrated to Sweden at the age of ten, to Lisa, Lasse and the others. In her village with the three farms, far away from the main road and yet at the center of a whole world. A calm one? It goes without saying that the children from Bullerbu belong in the tank bag for a leisurely holiday trip through Sweden. The cheeky Pippi is more suitable for the everyday fight against authorities. Barkeryd is much taller than Bullerby. Barkeryd has a church and cemetery, a school across the street and a mailbox somewhere in between. There is just as little shop in Barkeryd as there is in Bullerbu, and the school is currently empty. Vacation. So there is heavenly peace on the bench in front of the cemetery wall in the morning, and the view can wander undisturbed over the shallow lake. Where are the geese taking their young today? And the swans? Sometimes these questions cannot be answered immediately. Then the cemetery wall offers the best prospects. But mostly everything runs smoothly in Barkeryd. This is important because the certainties of a regular existence are not a bad breeding ground for genuine courage to explore. Barkeryd offers explorers three options: a beaten path around the lake, which offers the limited chance of tracking moose, or two gravel roads to the east. For the beaten path remains ?? thanks to the long Swedish summer days ?? there is still time afterwards. The BMW dusts off into the forest, at a moderate pace, not only because of the fine gravel, which taught generations of World Cup off-roaders how to drift, but which does not mesh well with Metzeler’s road tires. No, the world belongs to the slow man again, because he takes in the big picture and not just a tiny section of the slope. He sees the clouds wandering over the light alder forest and the lake flashing behind the trees. Discover the blueberry bushes as well as the ripe raspberries. Behind the slightly opened visor cheat the twittering of birds and the rustling of a brook, it smells fresh under birch trees, resinous under pines, and it takes at least 100 kilometers of gravel before a German motorcyclist is no longer frightened in particularly natural corners: “Damn, I’m driving here in the middle of the forest rum. That’s forbidden. ”But it isn’t, jostling housewives who shoo their station wagon home from the supermarket keep reminding them of this. Around half of the Swedish road network is unpaved, and it is this half that makes motorcycling a pleasure. Those who only use the European roads can also vacation on the A2 between Hanover and Berlin. On the other hand, anyone who gondolas from farm to farm with the hiking map in their tank bag is doing a traffic history role backwards because they are never next to them, but always right in the middle: in the forest, in the meadows, fields, farms and villages. And the anticipation rises in front of every hilltop, because a new surprise could be waiting behind it, for example something similar to Bullerbu: a wooden ensemble of a garden-lined house with stables, barns, sheds. Across the street goes the street, over there, in the wind, the Swedish flag wriggles, romping below, mostly blond like Lisa and her friends, the children. The only difference is that their fathers are no longer farmers, but use the farms of their ancestors as holiday homes. Towards evening in Barkeryd. Goose and gander are rounding up their chicks, now it would actually be the beaten path. But the parking lot at the lake is crowded, blow from the local history museum? to the horror of all moose ?? Shreds of folk songs through the forest. All right then. And that’s a good thing, because Sweden only understands those who get to know their residents’ awareness of tradition. This deep respect for the hard life of the mostly rural ancestors, for their skills and strength. Sometimes the strength wasn’t enough, the barren land was stronger; last at the beginning of the 20th century, when thousands of people emigrated to America, especially from Smaland. Some of the descendants of such emigrants from Nassjo and Barkeryd have come to visit from Texas, the festival is held in their honor in the museum, and they are deeply moved to transform their chewing gum English into acceptable Swedish. When the language comes to Astrid Lindgren, Bullerbu becomes Ballerbu. It doesn’t matter. Speckled in the many forests and the few fields, two types of cities await in Smaland: those with increased logistical value and those with reserved, clear charm. Nassjo has great supermarkets and petrol stations. Eksjo, at the crossroads of former trade routes, has centuries-old wooden houses. Many of them grouped together to form closed artisan or trading centers and almost all of them from an era that is now called the Great Power Period in Sweden. So it was not only the coastal cities that benefited from the conquests that took place across Northern Europe 300 to 400 years ago. Vimmerby must have got some of that wealth too. In any case, the old town is more impressive than Astrid Lindgren’s World? the amusement park to the most famous city daughter. There they are showing a film in which the elderly writer asks from extremely lofty heights: “What should prevent an old woman from climbing a high tree?” That gives motorcyclists in particular courage. For a tour to the east bank of Lake Vattern, for example . Wonderful paths meander through the forest parallel to the desolate E4. Depending on the gradient, this tour can end in Grenna, where the famous red and white candy canes were invented, or in Huskvarna, where the blue and yellow stud runners came from. And where nobody knows why the city writes K, but the machine factory writes Q. Still others extend their tour aimlessly into the evening. Which would have been the inevitable occasion to talk more about moose. Every German tourist who is not sitting by the fireplace after 9 p.m. is, all Swedes agree, on an elk safari. This opinion cannot be decisively contradicted here, especially since the Germans are world-famous for all kinds of myths. And the moose is a myth. So peaceful and ugly at the same time. So huge and yet never to be seen. 20 percent of all serious accidents are said to be due to encounters with this uber-Hirsch. But that usually happens during the rutting season and therefore outside of the travel season. The bottom line is that German moose seekers are dependent on Swedish help: When the village policeman ?? he drives a Volvo in the winter and a BMW in the summer? hears the boxer pounding at Barkeryd, he throws himself in the way. “You’re looking for moose?” He doesn’t really wait for the answer, just waves his hand, dives down like Kalle Blomquist, crouches down along his own garden fence, takes cover behind a bramble bush, pushes his binoculars through the top vines. “There,” he says, and in this word all the pride in his beautiful, sometimes fairytale country culminates.

Info – South Sweden

Two prejudices need to be dispelled: Holidays in Sweden are not significantly more expensive than in Germany. And there are no more mosquitos in the south of the country than in local latitudes. Then let’s go, right?

If you look at it soberly, the new bridge connection over the Oresund is only of benefit to a few travelers. Most of them have already had a day of travel on their way north and will be happy to take a break on board a ferry. From Travemunde to Trelleborg, for example, a return trip of at least 200 euros is due for the motorcycle and crew in the high season. Still an interesting and inexpensive alternative: the classic Vogelfluglinie from Puttgarden to Rodby, then on the motorway past Copenhagen and from Helsingor over to Helsingborg, the ferry costs are around 70 euros , in the interior it takes two or three weeks longer for winter to give way. Nevertheless, the season starts at the end of May and lasts until September. Accommodation A traditional holiday in Sweden actually includes a wooden house. Costs from 350 euros a week and should be booked well in advance, otherwise the inexpensive and beautifully located huts are gone. Also at campsites there is ?? especially on the coast and the banks of Vannern and Vattern ?? The beauties of the small Swedish coastal towns have often been praised; in the interior, Eksjo and Jonkoping are particularly worth a visit. Husqvarna’s lovingly crafted factory museum awaits you in Huskvarna, full of bicycles, sewing machines, kitchens, chainsaws and ?? Motorcycles. The »Astrid Lindgren’s World« theme park in Vimmerby is more for children; adult fans of the author should visit her birthplace in the Nas district. Literature: The Friedrich Oetinger publishing house not only publishes a beautiful edition of »Children from Bullerbu«, but also an interesting one Astrid Lindberg’s biography. The easy-to-read Dumont guides Sweden and ?? to get in the mood ?? the HB-Bildatlas South Sweden. Important: It is best to buy road maps in Germany because they are very expensive in Sweden. Nordland-Versand, PO Box 5, 49585 Neuenkirchen, www.nordland-shop.de, specializes in literature on Sweden. Information also provides regional tips from Schweden-Werbung, Lilienstrabe 19, in 20095 Hamburg. Smaland is responsible for Smalands Turism, Vastra Storgatan 18A, 551 11 Jonkoping. There is a lot of information on the Internet at www.schweden-urlaub.de.

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