It is always tricky with timing, and the other day it was too hot for us to go on a hike during the day as I planned. So we drove up to the mire in the afternoon. We started the hike on this two-day tour at six in the evening. The plan was to take the second walk early in the morning on day two.

Store Mosse National Park is located in Småland and is the most vast, largely untouched, raised bog in Sweden, south of Lapland. Most of the Store Mosse consists of Sphagnum moss, but there are also pine forests as well as fens and in certain parts spruce forests.

Already when I put up the tent, I noticed that it was going to be a night with many gnats—expected, of course, in this type of terrain. But it turned out that we couldn't stay outside the tent at all. There was so much you could hear them on the canvas like a light rain. Quite crazy, and then I am from Dalarna and have visited Jämtland regularly during the summers for almost 20 years.

It turned out not to be fewer of them on the morning of day two, I have never taken down, and packed up a tent inclusive all other packings so fast. Exor was not very fond of these little beasts either. So plans are there to be changed—a short walk to the car and then of to another national park, Åsnen.

Åsnen, located in the municipality of Alvesta and Tingsryd, adjacent to the city of Växjö. Seventy-five percent of the surface consists of water. So instead of marsh and bog, we got old beech woods and a lake archipelago.

Åsnen National Park

Old beech woods and a lake archipelago.

Further on our trip, we made a stop at the car cemetery in Ryd, which I think has seen it's best days. I think it has become too much of just rusty sheet metal and a little too little car. But, if you pass here, stretch your legs and take a look.