Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Long-distance bus services leave from behind the train station. For Ybuss departures, take
vall (Skr240, 2¾ to 3¼ hours, three to six daily) and Umeå (Skr390, 6½ to 7½ hours, three
en daily).
TRAIN
There are numerous daily services to Stockholm (Skr247, 1½ to 2¼ hours) via Uppsala
(Skr97, 45 minutes to 1¼ hours), Sundsvall (Skr112, 2¼ hours, roughly hourly), one or
two trains to Kiruna (Skr763, 14¼ hours, two daily), via Luleå (Skr691, 11¼ hours, daily),
and three to Östersund (Skr232, 3½ hours).
Hudiksvall
0650 / Pop 15,015
Hudiksvall is one plucky little town. Not only has it survived 10 major fires that left it in
piles of ashes but also it has weathered a Russian rampage in 1721 (check out the
cannonball-pockmarked
Jacobs Kyrka
( 10am-4pm)
just southwest of the centre). Its
cute harbour, surrounded by red wooden fishermen's storehouses (Möljen), has a sedate
appeal, as does the grander
Fiskarstan
, further along Hamngatan. 'Fishermen's Town'
consists of partly preserved, elegantly wood-panelled merchants' yards and winter dwell-
ings of local fishermen, dating back to the early 19th century.
A block from the waterfront, the highlights of
Hälsinglands Museum
(
www.halsinglandsmuseum.se
; Storgatan 31; noon-4pm Mon & Sat, 10am-4pm Tue-Fri)
include
eerily illuminated medieval church art, the Malsta rune stone from around AD 1000, en-
graved with the Helsinge runic script, and an early cubism exhibition by Swedish artists
John Sten and Dick Beer.
Your best bet for lodgings in central Hudik is the somewhat weathered
First Hotell
town's timber barons used to carouse in the 19th century (and which looks like it hasn't
changed its decor since). More carousing can done at the on-site O'Leary's bar. Four kilo-
metres east of Hudik, lakeside
Malnbadens Camping & STF Hudiksvall
( 0650-132
60;
www.malnbadenscamping.com
;
Linsänkevägen 15; sites from Skr160, s/d/q Skr345/410/795;
