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This afternoon we hosted a Gratis Fika with home made cakes at the library with an exhibition. We had a good turnout! The cakes were perfect.

On Saturday afternoon we listened to some folk music! And took some photographs of the musicians.

Last week we went out for the Bolmensdagen, day of the lake Bolmen nearby. We started with a trip to the Fauna bridge, an area which used to be a hydroelectric plant, you can see the old power station in the third photograph. The area has been transformed with rocks to make an area ideal for fish to breed! They are trying in particular to re-introduce a breed of fish which has nearly died out in Sweden.

Next was to have some fika and learn about the history behind the tradition in the exhibition they set up on this site. You can see us here having a delicious fika with cakes and biscuits home made by two lovely ladies.

Next we went off to Tiraholm and it’s Fisk Butik. Here is Kadri enjoying some excellent smoked fish! Salmon with a variety of herbs and peppercorns.

Last we visited the plate museum, a collection which grew after a lady suggested to a man that he decorate his room with a few plates above the window… He refused her suggestion but she insisted. And he liked the effect so much that now he has this beautiful collection, apparently only 10% of which he bought himself. His son told us this story.

Inspiring. We made lots of art this day.

On Friday we drove to Tiraholm, which we previously visited on Bolmansdagen, to buy a salmon. He weighed 2kg – enough for the gang. On the way home from Tiraholm we saw a moose! It was very exciting, 7 people in the minivan yelling ‘STOP THE CARRRR! I SAW A MOOOOOOSE!’. After three round trips on this one road every one had eventually seen the moose.

We bought some beers and made a delicious potato salad and some home made bread to go with the fish. Using the camp fire by the lake we built up a good cooking fire and (after a swim) it was soon time to cook the salmon! We stuffed him with dill, lemon and red onion and drizzled some olive oil. Very simple. It was an excellent dinner! We stayed very late by the lake and on the walk home saw shooting stars!

The last photograph in this gallery is of some home made charcoal made by Lotte, she used sticks from near an Iron Age burial site nearby and made charcoal using a tin and some sand within the camp fire. It was pretty impressive!

A select few of us made the journey to Ullared to discover the wonders of Gekås! We wandered the aisles marvelling at the cheap things (such variety!) and the hoards of happy shoppers. We had feared there might be a scrum, but everyone was taking it easy and actually moving very slowly. We bought some nice things and chatted with the checkout staff.

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