Great Journey 🇸🇪 Day 505
Today we sleep in the visitors' car park of the old and at the same time new Eketorp Castle. In the evening or afternoon at 4 o'clock, when we arrive, the sun is just setting and the castle is only dimly visible. A pity really.
So we set up camp right outside the castle gates, that way we'll be the first (and as it turns out, the only) visitors tomorrow morning. Setting up camp goes something like this: Stop, pull the handbrake, lock up. Depending on the surroundings, close the curtains. Done.
Eketorp Castle is one of an estimated 18 such round castles on Öland. However, only this one has been rebuilt. In the 80s of the last century. Actually, we are looking at a kind of copycat castle. Archaeologists don't find it funny, but we are thrilled.
This gives us an idea of what it was like in the past. We crawl onto the circular wall, feel briefly transported back to the Iron Age (well, at the latest when we have to go to the toilet or want to continue our journey, we are glad for our Felix!) and are happy as the sun emerging from the sea begins to warm us.
Already the first little history lesson before breakfast. Not bad, we think.
The visitors' car park remains empty, as do the streets on Öland. It seems to be a summer island, we guess. We fill up with water and diesel at a petrol station, drain off all the "Bäh" fluids into the drains provided for this purpose and continue our journey along the island.
The sun is shining, what more could you want?
