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[–] espentan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A long, long time ago, my dad accepted a combi-camp as partial payment for some work he did for a friend. It was our family's first (and only) venture into camping on wheels. Alright, my dad thought, we've got this thing, best use it for something..

Come family, we're going camping on Öland!

All was well, as far as I can recall, until the second day on Öland, when a torrential downpour flooded the camping area and left our combi-camp stranded in half a meter or so of water. Recovering it was a pain and our trip was pretty much ruined.

We eventually made it back home. My dad, at this point pretty fed up, vowed to never go camping in such a fashion again and rolled the combi-camp into a shed. There it remained until his death a few years ago.

Even as an 8-9 year old kid I thought Öland was a neat place. I remember renting a bike and going exploring, looking for aquatic fossils.

Would definitely visit again, but probably not with a combi-camp.

[–] wioum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been lucky, most of my summers when visiting Öland the weather is fine.

Edit: except one summer when the raining was so heavy that we left early, even if we had rented a place for a week.