Hi!Already quite some time ago (beginning of september), my parents came over to visit us, for a day or 10. They arrived on a friday, we rented a car, on saturday (nicely sized opel), and drove up with all four of us to lake Vattern (see picture). It's one of the biggest lakes in Sweden, and has some beautiful surroundings where you can enjoy hiking. Just what we did! We stayed in a 'stuga' on a camping in Vadstena, which is on the east-coast. Vadstena itself is a nice little town, not incredibly much to do, but they do have nice little streets, a big church and a handful of historical buildings. Perfect for a saturday afternoon. In the evening the weather started to change: huge clouds, heavy rain, strong winds. I was very happy we were not those people having their bike-holiday and trying to put up their tent as soon as possible in this heavy storm... Still raining on sunday, but still went to a closeby nature reserve for a ~10km hike. Really nice surroundings, forest, rock, steep slopes, water. Unfortunately not only water from the lake: it was really raining cats and dogs when we were nearing the end of our hike. Good thing we already noticed there was a small bar where we could warm up with some hot chocolate with whipped cream, while enjoying a sticky 'kladdkaka' or 'blabarspaj'. After we already needed to hurry so Lianne and I could catch the train, resulting in my parents bringing us almost halfway to stockholm by car already... Anyway, that was the weekend for us. My parents drove a lot more around the lake, up to north and west of it, to return the next weekend back in Stockholm, where we did a short sightseeing of Stockholm and also went with the 'Waxholmsbolaget' to one of the islands in the Archipelago, Grinda. About 1,5 hr by boat, and a nicely sized island for a 1-day walk. It was a beautiful day, and very nice walk, with great views over some of the other islands . All in all, we had fun, and enjoyed the nature and surroundings! Enjoy the pictures.
Till next time,
Jeroen
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Hello kids
As you see, I still occasionally check your log for news from the far north. Nice to see my brother and sister-in-law, and you two of course, doing well there.
I hope the swedish food became your parents well, I remember from long time ago having eaten surströmming, which was an unforgettable experience.
As you may have heard, I did not go back to Qatar after my leave in october, but instead I am now in Muscat, Oman. A much better place, haven't regretted my departure from Qatar for a minute.
The last 4 months in Qatar I did not know what to write anymore, everyday more or less the same and then a lot of "thinghs that were not fit to print".
But since a few days I am working on a new weblog again: www.peterinoman.web-log.nl
and I have taken the liberty to make a link to your site.
That's it for the time being dears, good luck and warm regards
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