Cases out at 5.30! It's a cruel and unusual punishment for Country Farm travellers but it's the only possible flight for us from Stockholm to Oslo - and it leaves us time to fit in a garden before lunch. We've got a new guide Albert and bus driver Gunnar and a whole new country which already looks different - green fields, more conifers and distant mountains.
It's a 3-generation farm with our hosts Michael and Astrid who are not confident of their English so have brought in Liv to speak for them. They could have used the lovely grandchildren Olmichael and Marte who are on 2 months summer holidays. /photo 1.
David was captivated by the stabbur, a root cellar and summer dormitory now a museum for old tools and implements. I loved the setting of immaculate garden around the farm buildings with a path leading down through a barley field to the lake sheet the children have boats. /Photo 3
There were peonies and blue poppies, meconopsis grandis, a beautiful vegetable garden and a wildflower meadow. (I understand about them now - how they have to be let go to seed so they can grow again next year. ) There was tea and cake in the summer kitchen and everything was idyllic in the warm sun: then we heard last winter it was MINUS 30 degrees C for 3 weeks.
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