Day 473: Decorated Farmhouses

Back on the WHS trail! Headed north-east, cross-country, checking out some of the Decorated Farmhouses of Halsingland. As you'd expect, these are old farmhouses from the 1800s that were heavily decorated - but on the inside, not the outside! On the outside they're mostly just the typical rusty red colour with white trimmings, but inside they're heavily painted. Some with scenes of rural life, others with wallpaper-styled patterns.

There's only 7 houses on the official list, and are all private dwellings (some even in the same families!), but there are hundreds of other examples in the area so we just drove around and looked and what we could. Information here in Sweden has been uniformly excellent - it's been really easy to plan our visits to most sites.

After we finished up here we drove north-east almost to the coast, where we camped at a town called Hudiksvall.Read more