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)
has tree-shaded camping spots, rustic hostel cottages, canoes for rent and a decent
lakeside restaurant; it's best to have your own wheels.
noon-8pm Sat & Sun; )
specialises in stir-fry and noodle dishes of a Chinese/Thai persua-
sion, while the menu at
Sigges Bistro & Bar
( 0650-333 33; Hamngatan 6; mains from
Skr115-269; 5pm-late)
runs the gamut from herring platters with all the trimmings to
homemade cheeseburgers and Caesar salads. On weekends, the bar morphs into a small
nightclub.
The
tourist office
(
0650-191 00;
www.hudiksvall.se/turism
; Storgatan 33 ;
10am-4pm
Mon-Fri)
is next door to the museum.
Getting There & Away
The
bus station
is next to the main train station, by the harbour.
Ybuss
( 060-17 19 60;
www.ybuss.se
)
travels to Gävle (Skr140, 1½ hours to two hours, two to three daily), Stock-
holm via Uppsala (Skr275, 3¾ to five hours, two to three daily) and Umeå (Skr320, 5¼
hours, daily).
Trains
run to Sundsvall (Skr195, 50 minutes, seven daily), Gävle (Skr195, 1¼ hours,
hourly) and Stockholm (Skr373, 2¾ hours, seven to 10 daily).
Sundsvall
060 / Pop 50,7112
When Sundsvall burned to the ground in 1888 after a spark from the Selånger steamboat
set the town brewery alight, civic leaders made a decision to have the old wooden houses
rebuilt in stone, separated by wide avenues. This immediately set Sundsvall apart from the
other towns along the Bothnian Coast, making them look like poor provincial cousins.
This move also forced poorer residents (including the workers who rebuilt Sundsvall) to
the city's outskirts, while wealth and power collected in the centre.
Sundsvall's main appeal today lies less in any one specific sight than in the Bothnian
Coast's most cosmopolitan city as a whole, complete with highly strollable boulevards and
a clutch of great restaurants.
