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Jul. 19th, 2012 11:11 pmRickard, Maja and I have been on a small holiday trip.
We started on Tuesday and went to Borås, which is about 60 kilometres east of Gothenburg and which has a really large zoo, where we spent around four hours walking around looking at animals. It's really much more fun that one would think as an adult. It's also quite close to a large shopping centre so I bought 5 metres (total) of two cheerful cotton prints (photos tomorrow hopefully) before we left for Huskvarna (yes, that's where the Husqvarna/Viking sewing machines came from) where we stayed two nights at a nice hostel.
On Wednesday I started with a brisk walk to the Huskvarna factory museum where I could look around briefly before we had to leave to meet up with my sister and her family in the nearby town Gränna, which is a really pretty very oldfashioned town with cobblestone streets and wooden houses (and lots of tourists). We watched the making of candy sticks and had lunch before we went down to the ferry to go to Visingsö, a narrow island in the second largest lake in Sweden, called Vättern. If you go to my other blog you can see some photos of us doing the prescribed tourist things before returning to the mainland with the ferry. My brother-in-law had called the hostel were we stayed and managed to get a room for them too, so we all went there and had dinner and the kids played abit more before going to bed. Maja is really good and patient with smaller children so they had fun despite the fact that she's eight and Sara is four. Lastly that night we went down to the lake.
Today I dragged the whole family and my sister's family to the factory museum, but that will have to wait until tomorrow to be blogged.
We started on Tuesday and went to Borås, which is about 60 kilometres east of Gothenburg and which has a really large zoo, where we spent around four hours walking around looking at animals. It's really much more fun that one would think as an adult. It's also quite close to a large shopping centre so I bought 5 metres (total) of two cheerful cotton prints (photos tomorrow hopefully) before we left for Huskvarna (yes, that's where the Husqvarna/Viking sewing machines came from) where we stayed two nights at a nice hostel.
On Wednesday I started with a brisk walk to the Huskvarna factory museum where I could look around briefly before we had to leave to meet up with my sister and her family in the nearby town Gränna, which is a really pretty very oldfashioned town with cobblestone streets and wooden houses (and lots of tourists). We watched the making of candy sticks and had lunch before we went down to the ferry to go to Visingsö, a narrow island in the second largest lake in Sweden, called Vättern. If you go to my other blog you can see some photos of us doing the prescribed tourist things before returning to the mainland with the ferry. My brother-in-law had called the hostel were we stayed and managed to get a room for them too, so we all went there and had dinner and the kids played abit more before going to bed. Maja is really good and patient with smaller children so they had fun despite the fact that she's eight and Sara is four. Lastly that night we went down to the lake.
Today I dragged the whole family and my sister's family to the factory museum, but that will have to wait until tomorrow to be blogged.