Best Western Akerby Hotell & Konferens Orebro

... of these fish recipes from her before I forget). Yesterday we drove around Siljansjö, which is a large lake and then checked out the town of Mora and went to a Dalicarlian wooden horse factory. Most of the rest of the time we've been hiking around the area and enjoying scrumptious pastries. So soon my journey will be coming to a close as I return to NY. I hope you all enjoyed my travel blog!

... did a spot of shopping at H&M and Lindex. We also discovered the busiest shop in town, the Systembolaget. Yes this is where the Swedes get their full strength beer and not even that, 10% beer and 7% Cider! The place was packed, so much for trying to minimise alcohol consumption. There are no off-licences to go to get any full strength alcohol past 5pm or 6pm when the shops close, so basically this is the only place besides bars and restaurants to get your alcohol. Interesting ...

... grounds are stunning with its own little beach and wooded forest and the waters of lake vanern weren't too cold, we might even consider a dip later...

Our gorgeous serenity was then only ruined by 2 bus loads of high school students. Damn... ah well kind of nice to have some more people around.

We had a game of mini golf in the afternoon, it seems big over here as there is a course at every ...

... in the Tanum region are a Unesco world heritage site. There are over 3000 petroglyphs across 100 panels located across 5 distinct areas along a 25 km stretch and Vitlycke is the centre of the area and the Vitlyckehall is the largest flat rock of nordic bronze age petroglyphs in Scandinavia. The drawings depicts boats, elk, humans, birds, weapons and scenes of everyday life. Carved from about 1500- 500 BC, and about 3000 years ago this area was actually by the sea shore ...

The opening of the Ung 7 exhibition at Örebro University Art Hall is on Monday Aug 31 at 15:00, see Vernissage Designutställning UNG7 Read about the Plasticks concept on http://www.jennylundgren.se/portfolio/p lasticks/

Stockholm to Õrebro
Today we woke up to rain and of course my poor body HATES the rain, but I managed to get up and get going. We had hoped to go visit Skansen the outdoor museum in Stockholm but realized that was out, with the rotten weather, and I only thought it was rotten in Denmark! Well more time to spend with family. When leaving the hotel, we approached the tiny 3 person elevator which would of broken every building code the US has ever ...

Woke up this morning in Orebro home of my family. We ate breakfast at McDonalds (really Swedish) well at least the menu was! I never saw sandwiches on an American McDonalds menu. Was a nice change though from the buffets we have been having every morning. We took a ride to where my family home used to be only to be met with a tattoo parlor. I was going to go in and get a tat, but Bruce quickly put a sop to that. After picking a few apples off from my Farfor's ...

... to award these prizes was started in Karlskoga. The first prize was awarded in 1901. President Teddy Roosevelt was the first American given the Nobel Peace Prize. The first four prizes are awarded in Stockholm with the King of Sweden present. The Nobel Peace Prize is given in Oslo, Norway. In 1901 Norway and Sweden were one country.

Now the museum. It is housed in the manor house the Alfred Nobel lived in ...

... works at Oslo University teaching English and Music. Margaretha works as a software specialist. They have been most hospitable.

Anthony took me to the bus station for my journey today to Karlskoga where I would be with the Spenser’s, Engholm’s and John Wennström. The Swedish bus I wanted was full, but I did get a Norwegian one half an hour later. Anthony and I then got some coffee and had a healthy ...

We leave Stokholm to go to Örebro, a quiet city in the middle of Sweden with a nice medieval castle and an enormous and very green camping vhere we stay for 2 nights....Örebro is also the home town of Millencolin, and it's a good reason to come here...!!!