I rode the long route using the Dover-Calais ferry then through Belgium, Holland and Germany to get the Puttgarden-Rodbyhavn ferry and over the malmo bridge into Sweden. From England to Sweden using this route took me 3 days. Left home got the lunchtime ferry, camped the first night in Holland and the second night in Germany before getting the ferry and riding over the bridge on the third day.

If you look at the other option using the Harwich-Esbjerg ferry you leave home and get the ferry around 1800 (I think) and arrive in Esbjerg around 1300 the next day. If you then drove to Sweden over the bridge you would arrive there about 24 hours earlier. I priced that ferry last week and with a cabin both ways it was over £400! It only saves you 2 days on the whole trip and by using the channel crossing you save £360!!

As getting the ferry to Bergen is no longer an option, which saved a lot of time, either option is open to you. Do you need the 2 days or the £300?

You can ride all the way up through Denmark and get a ferry to Oslo or the short hop to Goteburg but riding the E6 up the west coast of Sweden is no hardship.

I hope you get to make the trip as Scandinavia is a wonderful place to be. Your efforts will be rewarded ten fold. Clean air, clean people and views available in CinemaScope!!