There is not a lot going on in Sveg. We decided to check out the sites anyway. Correction: site. They have a 9 meter tall wooden bear.

Here is it's front: and here is the rear:  That was it.

This is what it looked like in the brochure:

And just for comparison, here is the view from our cabin:

The construction-site on the other side of the fence was busy from 6 in the morning to 10 in the evening. Still, we didn't bother to complain as we had planned to spend most of the days NOT in Sveg, but in the surrounding forests. I had before this trip collected some hints and direct descriptions to where we would find cars so we were very hopeful and figured it was best to come prepared with the big toolbox and digital-cameras constantly standing by.

We had entered bear-country. You should be careful.

As we were driving along we parked the car by the side of the road any time we got a hunch on something, then went out to have a look around. At this site someone had cleared the contents of an old barn.

Here I am checking out... I don't remember. Something on the ground obviously.

Jonny found a bucket.

- Nope, nothing here, lets head back.

The next day we decided to check out the most specific tip I had gotten: Go to village A, take a left, then when you get to village B take a right, drive for 800 meters and look in to the forest on your left. No... nothing there. We parked the car to get out and have a closer look. This is what we found.

There had been a split-window bug sitting quietly on the ground here, just as I had been told, but now it was gone. Parts were spread all over the place which led me to believe nobody took it to take care of it, it was just taken away to the scrapper, very sad.

Later on, in Vemdalen we found this thing:

Then we found a wrecking-yard just south of Östersund, where we were certain there would be a few cars. To bad they sold them all to some English guy, we couldn't take a bolt on them.

This is Norrland for you:

Further down the road, DKW:

Kapitän (way to expensive, it looked like crap ). I test-drove a Saab two-stroke at the same guy, didn't buy it though.

With the car still empty (as we had found just about NOTHING!), we left Sveg and headed for less deppressive towns. And we found it in Härnösand, here are a few photos from the camping-site. (Again; Don't go to Sveg)

  Wallpaper:

Then we went home. On the way back to Stockholm we stayed to check out the trains in Gävle.

So to sum it all up: Visit the north of Sweden for it's great scenery, the chance of finding that old split-bug hiding is less then minimal...