So I ask my boyfriend what his brother is doing that specific weekend. He lives in Tyresö. I could drop in for coffe or in my case, tea if he is at home.
Then I was on the internet looking through my blogs and saw that pysselgrottan had a sale. There is not much from my pottering caterory, but I had to check that out anyway. Don't you think I found the sweetest piggy bank! In shape of a cow :) There was 14 left and I thought about it, took it to a colleague and asked it that is something we could need at work. She thought it would be nice, so I ordered a bunch plus a bunch of impuls orders :)
I know the owner so I checke the box "will pick it up at the store" ans aksed her if it was okay if I dropped by on saturday. It was okay! :) So I added Östhammar to my plans. The fact is that they are not right next each other. Östhammar is to the north, and Tyresö is to the south. So I didn't know what time I would have for shopping. The "I can then take some time to look at stores in Stockholm" was removed from my plans :)
This heart is outside pysselgrottans shop. She is moving her shop, and still building on it, so I have no pictures of the shop.
To the trip. I began at Mariehamn at 8 am. Or I got up at 6.30am to get ready and be at port 7.30. It wasn't just me that wanted to go to Sweeden! If I put it like that. I had had my breakfast at home and my plan was to sleep the two hour trip. Accept for a half an hour that I would spend in the taxfree, just befor going to the car. The greatest idea! It wa like: Eyes closed - we are in Sweeden! :)On the way to Östhammar I had to take a picture of the same sign as last time :) A warning sign of a pig! What? Are there running pigs loose or what? I don't understand :)
It rained the whole time I was drinving. Don't worry, I stopped the car while taking pictures :) Here I tried to take a picture of the water on the windscreen. It didn't work :)
This church I like. So I had to take an other picture of it :)After this I also drove by the clocktower I took a picture of last time :) But I didn't stop for a picture this time.
When I came to Östhammar me and Vero had decided that I would meet her at her house. This was the first time I was there. And the second time I met her :) So I had a rosé-vine to her as a gift :) At first she showed me her new shop, it was not ready, but most of the stuff was already there. After that we had a cup of tea. I had a licorice tasted one. I have tasted one before, that I didn't like, but this was good! And yes, it was a tea of my choise :) I thought I wanted to give licorice tea an other chance :)
We talked and the time kept on going, so all of a sudden I watched the time and realized it was time to go. But first I gave a bracelet for her to fix, one to shorten, and two to make :) I have confidence in her! So I know that they are going to turn out great :) I look forward to get them in my mail! Probably somtime next week :)
After leaving Östhammar behind me I drove with lots of help from my GPS to Tyresö. I saw this lovley building, it could be a church. This time I did not stop to take a picture. I looked at the road, took the camera, pointed it to the window, and clicked the button.
Therefore the pictures I got was not that good ;) But still I like them, it is something that I like about them.
Both in Finland and in Sweeden we have speed-cameras. I don't know, and don't care that much, wich other countries have them. But in Finland and Sweeden they are different from each other. I think that a speedcamera should not be easy to spot. You are supposed to drive as the speedlimit no matter what. (I'm not saying I am an angel, doing that all the time....) I don't think speedcameras have to be warned about. Still they are. Anyway. The cameras in Sweeden, the camera on the picture, is NOT easy to detect! I should take a picture of the cameras in Finland also. This is interesting, wonder what cameras in other countries look like...
Here is an other camera. Easy to see?
Here is a great example of what happenes when you take a picture without looking what you take a picture of.
It was a nice looking building. On the other picture, I took two on the same time, just to have one good picture, I get rewarded with a side ;) Haha!To this point I was almost alone on the road. I stopped fooling around when there got more trafic. And whan I got to the freeway I didn't even think the thought of taking pictures from the car! I'm not stupid :)
After a long drive I finally got to Stockholm. In Stockholm there was sometime so much trafic that the trafic stood still. That is when I took the chance to take pictures :) I would never try to take pictures from my car in Stockholm otherwise! It is a big city (for me, maybe not for people from countries with BIG cities) and I used all my concentration to follow the GPS and where the road took me. For instance, one time the GPS told me to keep left, so I moved to the left roadway, driving there for a while until I found out that the roadway I came from ALSO keeps left, hm...
I think Stockholm is a beautiful city. As it was a cloudy day it doesn't show. Plus, pictures taken from the car maybe not show Stockholm from the right side :)
Here I tried to take a picture at Globen, seen in the left corner :D What a total miss of me ;) But I like the clouds on this picture!
When I got to Tyresö I was hungry, needed to go tho the bathroom and wanted to find some clothing. So I took it in order of importence. First I searched for a toilet, then some were to eat, and then to the stoore :) While being in the store M:s brother called and told me not to eat! They were about to make some food so I could eat with them. What was I to say? I ate 15 minutes ago. To bad.... I had spoke with him the moment I got to Tyresö, just to let him know I found my way there and not got lost.I walken in one store, the boutique I was thinking of, that was too fancy, the next shop, not wnough fancy, next, same result....back to the boutique.....Nothing! Finally I found a pair of boots! Brown and so nice! I tried them on, and when I got home I tried them on an other time. The quality is not that good...it looks like I have been wearing them for years....but they only costed 100 SEK, that is about 10 €, so not that expencive. They were on sale, otherwise I would go back!
Anyway, after a disaster of shopping I went over to M:s brother K and his girlfriend L. I spent about 2 hours there, after that I had to leave to catch the ferry home. But I had the time to take 121 pictures of their golden T! T is the one in the picture above :) Also I got some tea, a orange tasted tea, I think it was. It was good either way :) And to that I got L:s wonderful pizza-bun! K didn't fancy them, so he told me if I liked them I could eat them all :) If I wouldn't have been so full from my dinner earlier I would have! Well, everyone with their own taste....but this was wonderful! I asked her for the recipie :) I have to try and make them myself!
The time really fly when one is having fun. All of a sudden I had to leave them, I had stayed to the last minute. I clickt the port in my GPS, and it let me know I was going to be at the harbour about ½ hour befor the ship would lay out. I told them I message them if I get there in time. Otherwise I have had to get back and sleep over. It was the last ferry over.
When driving trough Stockholm again I could see that the weather had cleared up. And now I got a better shot of Globen :)
For those that doesn't know Sweeden or the location of the places I visited, I give you a map. Start and stop are on the same spot.
Here is the whole mileage. It was 360 km, roughly. I didn't check that the start, stop or the via ponts are at the exact spot where I was.I took me about 4 ½ hours only to drive :) And I want to do this again :) I could go for a roadtrip in Sweeden! I don't know if I'm that interested in the northern Sweeden, but the southern :) Hope I get to do this sometime :) But not this year or before april next year. Then we have other plans :)
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