Day four was mostly a travelling day, driving from Lund to Kalmar, which is on the East coast and about 4/5 hours away. We hired our lovely, little VW Golf and set off, again Daddy Peace having to get used to the funny way round cars here and the nonsense of driving on the right - which by the way only changed from the left around 1965ish - isn't that loco!
After being amazed at the complete lack of traffic on EVERY road (why o why can't the M25 be like these roads, going to London, or anywhere South, would be heaven!!) And somehow, even thourgh we were on a 'travelling' day we still somewho managed to have lunch OUTSIDE again in the FREEEEEEZING cold!! (this was most definitively a Mummy Peace idea!) Lawrence even tried to put on his thermals OVER his clothes it was that cold!!
But once back in the waaaaaarm car, Kalmar finally loomed in the not so far distance. Used my Swedish again to ask a poor random man where Hotell Svanen was ( i really really don't think he had any clue poor thing!) Arrived, unpacked and went in search of food, and O MY was it COLD that night!!! It was FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZING!!!!! especially after all the nice weather we'd had in Lund, we were asking ourselves why we left! Found Chinese tonight - yum! and Lawrence tried duck for the first time, such a fun interactive dinner, what with the pancakes, the cucumber and all!
Scuttled home, all wrpapped up for the cold. End of Day 4
Day 5
Splendid fun on a Paradisgatan stroll on the island of Oland. Interestingly Oland was an island so full of Windmills in the 1700 that it actually had more windmills than Holland! There only survive 400 now, and we saw an impressive...76 on our two days there!
Seriously got lost today on the walking front, and ended up walking through what appeared to be someones garden, but they have the 'free walkers right' here which means that everyone has the right to all the land - really a wonderful idea and only possible here in Sweden where everything is so safe and not in need of fences or barbed wire!! But we finally found the 'sleeping' vaderkvarn (windmill) and thus where we were on the 'interesting map they gave us that consisted of a MOST random hand drawn route and certain 'signposted' landmarks. It really was unique! But the weather was beautiful so eerything seemed perfect!
again lunch outside (sensing a theme yet?!) Had a mini tour round the south of the island, and back over the fabulous hump bridge that connects the island to the main land.
And of day 5
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