We spent our last night in Germany in a beautiful, secluded spot at the edge of a quiet forest of old oaks near the Danish border.
The northern Breakfast we enjoyed later was quite different from our accustomed Bavarian diet. You can see them both on YouTube.
Bavarian food (don’t get a culture shock): https://youtu.be/7_sTfkP3Ksw
versus fresh coastline specialities: https://youtu.be/bFc8Pa_zunU
See how we arrived in Sweden: https://youtu.be/yGSdeLAHCEY
Getting mobile internet in Sweden
They said it is so easy.
Unfortunately, the law changed two years ago.
So, whatever I researched before the trip turned out to be out of date.
Bummer!!! I needed a Swedish prepaid SIM card. Once they were available in most stores, but due to new and more strict regulations, most places stopped selling them. We were sent from one shop to another just to hear: “Sorry, we don’t carry them anymore.”
So, we strayed through town, admittedly a very pretty town, trying to find our way in pursuit of that precious litte piece of electronics. No card, no internet. No internet, no blog, no video clips …
We finally found a store of one of the cell phone companies. And lucky us, we arrived 15 minutes before closing.
Yes, I got a SIM card with enough capacity.
The hook is: you can activate it only via internet.
Out of luck?
The only coffee shop providing internet access closed right in front of our very noses.
My phone refused to read the QR code of the card. Additionally, it would not connect to the German internet via roaming.
My partner’s phone connected nicely to the German internet but the browser would not open the website of the provider for registering the card. Without registration, the card is useless.
How to solve the problem?
I created a hot spot with one phone.
That enabled me to access the internet with the other phone and install a new app that read the QR code and connected to the provider’s website – hurray!
Struggeling through the Swedish instructions with the aid of Google translate, I was finally able to activate the card – and – it WORKS!!!
Thanks to that, you can read our first blog articles and view our video clips from Sweden …
