Tuesday, I started putting our trip after leaving Djurby into the GPS, and realized that I had made a hotel reservation in the wrong city!  Linköping is not the same as Lidköping!  That would have been a problem, especially since it turned out that there were no vacancies in Lidköping, so we would have arrived with no place to stay.

Instead, I was able to make reservations in Trollhätten, also known as “Trollywood” because it is a center of Swedish film making.

Later, I went to help Tim with the rock wall for the green house, but he was nearly done for the morning, so I just kibitzed.

In the afternoon, we went for a tour of the parks in Enköping, known as the “City of Parks.”  They have a beautiful park system that attracts tourists from all over the world.  Our tour was on a tram that took us throughout the park system.  Unfortunately, there was no room for Tim, but Annalena went with us, and Tim had a chance to look at things up close at his own pace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

See these thorns?  They are 3-4″ long, and are said to be the kind of thorns that were used in Jesus’ crown of thorns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We finished with a little shopping, coffee and sweets.  I bought a carved horse which is traditional Swedish folk art  originating in Swedish province of Dalarna.

 

 

We ended the evening with a delicious quiche dinner and several rounds of wine.  We were treated to a serenade of the famous Swedish drinking song, “Helan Går.” We were told that the song refers to Laurel and Hardy–which led into a discussion and general agreement about how great Laurel and Hardy were, especially in Way Out West.  We had no idea that they were so popular with all generations in Sweden!  (I’ll teach my brothers the drinking song at our next get together.)