Tuesday 12 October 2010

Sweden 2010

Here we go then, a quick tour of the tiny part of Sweden that I managed to see during the past seven days. First stop my brothers place in Vasteras. Apologies to any Swedish readers for the lack of inflections, afraid I don't have those on my keyboard.




Then a one hour journey courtesy of Swedish railways to 3 full days in Stockholm with a double booking mistake at our hotel which led to a fabulous, free upgrade including a fully paid for taxi across the city to our new accomodation!! Wow!!










The wondeful Stockholm island of Djurgarden. Check it out, fantastic. Stunning views, truly breathtaking.








Do I need to say more where this next picture is concerned??? I seem to remember spending a lot of time in here, maybe a little money too!


and something equally as beautiful, Svenskt Tenn. Truly stunning contemporary design. I couldn't even afford a paper bag in here though.


I really hope these next pictures make you gasp, deep in the woods, miles from anywhere. A little red riding hood..ish.


The home of my brothers father in law and his lovely wife. Words fail me.





I believe that this is the outdoor loo, never used, far too pretty.



Then back to Vasteras and my brothers house for a few days, with a view to die for.

12 comments:

  1. Looks absolutely blissful.
    travels scramble my brain too.

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  2. Fantastic, it looks so swedish. Love the Svenskt tenn, that is so swedish, so scandanavian. Glad you had such a great time in the land we thought we would end up.

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  3. Absolutely beautiful! That is one lucky brother that you have there.
    x

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  4. Oh, I can hardly wait. June is when we will go and visit my son. You are making it hard to wait except I want to go when the weather gets better. Rick is so bad about taking photos but he does say it is absolutely beautiful and I see from your photos it is. :-) I am happy you had a great time. What are the must sees?

    Have a great day!

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  5. Karen,
    It looks like you had a marvelous time!
    Wonderful to see Sweden through your lens and passion.

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  6. By the way , you forgot your dirty socks!
    Andrew

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  7. Karen, I absolutely love Sweden. I have friends there and visit so often as I can!

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  8. Hi Karen !
    Very nice photos of my country! And your brothers house are really beautiful !!!
    I hope you feel well ?
    Gunnel

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