Jonkoping is on a lake and used to be the centre of the match industry: there's even a museum of matches but fortunately we arrived too late and left too early to see it. David had fun looking at all the forests we drove through - larch, willow for fuel, birch, pine and mixed forest.
It's a land of forest and lakes - so many lakes that canals join them and you can cross Sweden by water. We caught a boat on the Gota Canal for a lunchtime cruise which was very pleasant, sailing along in the sunshine and eating lunch while going through locks. We really are having terrific weather!
After two hours we were at the other end of the lake and Fab met us with the bus. Just time for a snooze before stopping for afternoon tea at a castle. There's a nasty legend attached to it about a Lord killing his two brothers which they make a big deal of for tourists but I thought it was horrid and hopped back on the bus with my knitting.
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