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MONDAY 6-6-2022

Av EvaLena Hallgren - 6 juni 2022 22:00

Yesterday morning we left my favorite place and my favorite friends and it was sad, but Mom is ready to continue our adventure and where she goes I go.

We didn't drive very far before Mom stopped for fika at some people's house she knew from before. We sure did get fika, (fika is a thing everyone in Sweden do, and they do it a lot, it's coffee and cake or Mom's favorite cinnamon buns)but we stayed so long we got dinner too, and it was great. I did get a plate on my own for being so good.

And then Alice showed up with her Mom and a guy with pretty good ears

     

After our bellies were full of very tasty meat rolls, we kept on driving in the forest going North. I felt we were driving forever but Mom said it wasn't that long, it just felt that way because it's only forests to look at.

But then all of a sudden? Santa's reindeer had escaped?

Mom said they live here and so does Santa but they have a vacation in the summer month..............hmmm not sure it's the truth.


     


This area where we are is known for a lot of bears hibernating and there's a children's song about Olle picking blueberries in the forest and met a bear and he gave the bear his berriesi....hence this statue are in many places


 


Mom's finally getting sleepy, so we looked for a nice place to park for the night.

The parking lot to this place looked promising at first, but we soon discovered it seems to be a spot the youth comes at night to make figure eights with their cars in the gravel

 



We didn't want to disturb their driving so we kept on to a town called Mörkret (Darkness) and found a great spot for the night. This is how the sky looked at 10.30 when we turned in.


 

TUESDAY 6/7

It's now lunchtime on Tuesday, Mom fell asleep before she finished my story and today she has been cleaning Lucy and doing laundry, so I have been hanging out on my own all morning. It's ok we are at a very nice campsite in a small town called Lit and there are a lot of dogs here and very relaxed on rules about being tied up.


The sun is going down at 11.35pm and up at 2.18 am which is pretty cool if you ask me.



Yesterday morning we got up very early because Mom had planned a 5mile hike to a waterfall.

 


Mom had been to this place about 45 years ago and told me it's a rugged path through the woods......Hmmm her memory has been pretty bad lately. There were several little resting stops and wooden boardwalks built, she still insists they weren't there last time.


   


Mom said you have to admire the carpenter who took his/her time to create this pattern on a wider spot on the boardwalk made for lookout. 


 

The waterfall Njupeskar has been declared to be the tallest permanent waterfall in Sweden with a reported cumulative height of 93m of which 70m is free fall.

The reason we went so early is that Mom remembered how the morning sun hit the falls just right.

It's only in a very small period of time out of the year, that the falls could catch the morning light. The rest of the time, it would pretty much be in shadow. 

   

 


It was a great hike and here I was forced to be on a lead which meant I have to stop often to wait for Mom.

I wanted to know why I couldn't run free as I've been doing in other forests? Because there are a lot of wild animals here and it's a national park............

     


here's an old forge set up on our path, I guess there will be demonstrations during high tourist season


Unfortunately, the path to the falls was closed due to a kestrel nest on top of the falls and they are protected so we couldn't go to the foot of the fall. It's of course the right thing, but we couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

We didn't stay long and on our walk back we met several birdwatchers with their binoculars and long-lens cameras


  

Why is that thing on the tree staring at me ?................


 


here's a walking stick?

 

on the way here we stopped several times and Mom filled the fridge with food.

At one place we stopped, I saw this giant construction? what is it? 

supposed to look like a bear that can't hold his head up on his own.

 

 the same town had a very cute house and an American car living here


   


Swedes are really good at building shelters at their rest stops. No wonder since it's raining so much...........this place even had PC charging and wifi.

 


This moped cracked Mom up because it made her remember when she was a puppy and many boys got their first job using these as delivery vehicles. How come no girls drove them I asked?............. "Good question," she said

 


It's now lunchtime and Lucy is scrubbed clean inside so the rest of the day will be relaxation time, do nothing just look at the gorgeous sun, and listen to hundreds of chirping birds.

I'm good with that.


wet kisses to ya all





 

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