Being a parent requires travel destinations to change and adapt to life changes, changes that are not necessarily negative, and sometimes even lead to discoveries we would not think to discover.
One of our travel wishes came
through a family passion, playing with Legos and hence came the desire to visit
Legoland, but not any Legoland, we wanted to visit the first, original, Billund
Legoland in Denmark.
That's when we started planning
our visit, which may not be as easy as you might think at first. The difficulty
is not exactly in visiting Billund's Legoland, as Billund has an airport very
close to Legoland, which is extremely facilitating for those who just want to
visit Legoland.
But that was not our goal.
Generally, when we visit a destination, whenever we have the opportunity, we
try to organize ourselves in order to make the most of our trip so as to know
as much as possible.
In that sense, and as we had
never visited Scandinavia, we wanted to make the most of our two weeks vacation
and explore a little.
Of course, two weeks would be
impossible to get to know Scandinavia at all, so we were faced with the challenge of planning a road trip itinerary (because we were going to rent
a car at the arrival airport for maximum mobility), which
necessarily passed by Billund.
In addition to having to go
through Billund, we had the added challenge of the size of Scandinavia, which
is HUGE !! Especially when compared to Portugal, which is a small country.
Being Billund in Denmark, this would
be a must-see country for us but it would not be possible to visit all of
Scandinavia at all. Even if we spent all our holidays driving, it would still
be impossible. In this sense, and only distance-related issues, we were forced
to set aside Finland, and our circular road trip would be through Denmark,
Norway and Sweden.
Whenever we organize our Road
Trips we aim to do so in such a way that our starting-point coincides with the
end of the trip as it makes car hire a lot less expensive and often you get
better travel prices. also when buying round trip tickets to the same
destinations.
So, for our Scandinavia road
trip, we didn't necessarily have any starting point that we considered the main
one, so our itinerary serves any of the airports near our destinations, namely
Bergen, Copenhagen, Oslo, Copenhagen or even from Billund.
In our particular case, our
choice was to start our road trip through Copenhagen, to get the best prices
for that destination and to get excellent value for a car. However, any of the
above airports are great starting points.
Therefore, we will explain our
two-week itinerary through Scandinavia, which took us for about 2300 km of pure adventure.
Day 1- Landing in Copenhagen
- Rent a car
- Sleep in Copenhagen
Day 2 - Discover Copenhagen
- Sleep in Copenhagen
Day 3 - From Copenhagen to Billund (265 km)
- Odense and Kongernes Jelling Tour
- Home of The Vikings
- Afternoon at Lego House
- Sleep in Billund
Day 4 - Billund
- Lego Land
- Sleep in Billund
Day 5- From Billund ToKristiansand (380 Kms)
• Alborg
• Ferry boat
Day 6 - From Kristiansand toStavanger (260 Kms)
• Sleep in Stavanger
Day 7 - From Stavanger to Bergen(220 Kms)
• Walk around Bergen
• Sleep in Bergen
Day 8 - Bergen
• Walk around Bergen
• Sleep in Bergen
Day 9 - From Bergen to Nesbyen (378 Kms)
• Undredal village and fjord
• Make the way to Flam.
Day 10 - From Nesbyen to Oslo (151 km)
• Go through Norefjell, Noresund
and Honefoss
• Sleeping in Oslo
Day 11 - Oslo
• Discover Oslo
• Sleeping in Oslo
Day 12 - From Oslo to Fredrikstad (91 Kms)
• Stroll through Fredrikstad.
• Sleep in Fredrikstad.
Day 13 - From Fredrikstad to Gothenburg (215 Kms)
• Going around Gothenburg
• Sleep in Gothenburg.
Day 14 - Gothenburg
• Going around Gothenburg
• Sleep in Gothenburg.
Day 15 - From Gothenburg to Copenhagen Airport (310 Kms)
• Passing by Malmo and the Oresund Bridge
• Return home.
Conclusions
It is not at all easy to choose
what to do in Scandinavia and we are bound to say that there is much more to do
in this wonderful part of our planet. Unfortunately, we did not have time to go
hiking as we would like and one of our wishes is to visit further north of
Bergen in Norway, in particular, to go to Tromso, along the coast exploring its
incredible fjords. Also, Finland is on our bucket list, but we will also have to leave it for a future trip but, we have
to say that our trip and our itinerary made for a great family trip.
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