It was a success.....

......Silver Envelope 15 went down a treat!! We had a brilliant road trip to Sweden!

Thursday morning we were up early and ready to go, a little later than our planned 9.15. I told Kristian we were going to drive to one of our favourite cafes for brunch, to get a good start for the day!  It was then I also told him what the plan was, that we were going to Sweden to stay in a cosy wee hotel and visit a certain place that I had heard about. He was a happy man! And so the road trip began......

After brunch we headed for the bridge to Malmo in Sweden. It is only about a 30 minute drive from us.

We drove up through Sweden towards Kullen which we have been to a few times, however this time I had booked a hotel at the other side of Kullen. It was such a beautiful drive up there. About an hour and a half later we arrived.

I had brought some snacks from home, so we parked the car down by the harbour and enjoyed a cold Coke and a Snickers.

The little village was sooo cosy and the hotel was just our type of place! We fell in love with it all!

We were still a little early for check in so we went out exploring and enjoyed the beautiful nature.

After exploring for an hour and a half, we decided to go and get checked in and see what the hotel looked like from the inside. It was lovely....sooo cosy. The rooms were small but we just loved it. We had a fantastic view from the room!

The Dining Room....

Our bedroom.....

                                    The reception area......

                                           Some extra rooms for catering.....

                          One of the hallways leading to rooms.....

So after our long walk we got checked in and relaxed before getting ready for dinner. We had the most delicious food - when we finally worked out what the menu said. It was all in Swedish! We were sitting using Google translate to see what it was we were ordering!! Finally we gave up and asked the waitress if she had an English menu which she did.

After dinner we headed out again for a walk, this time going in a different direction than what we had done in the afternoon. It was such a beautiful evening. The sky was amazing. The colours were beautiful. It was like watching God paint a masterpiece.

It was then back to the hotel to sit in the lobby and check out some of the books they had lying around.  We had to be good to ourselves, so I got a cola and Kristian a cup of coffee. A perfect way to end the day.

Then this morning we were up early again. No point burning day light!! We came down to the most delicious breakfast at the hotel. We stuffed our faces again! Then it was time to pack up and go out exploring again. I had heard about a place called Nimis. It was not far from the hotel and I wanted us to check it out. It is a very unique place!

Nimis is a gigantic sculpture made of driftwood. It is 150 meter long and 12 meters high and it is constructed with about 160000 pieces of wood, that´s about 75 tons!!!

So we set out to find Nimis and what an adventure that was.

We discovered that the path to Nimis went through the forest and it wasn´t really a path...it was more like climbing down steep hills and gorges!!! Ok maybe I am exaggerating a little but if I am, it is only a little. It was such HARD WORK!! MY LEGS, MY HEART, MY LUNGS - I thought I was going to die!

It started out easy enough.....a wee path,  a few lovely trees.....

  Then it got worse. The paths disappeared and it was just steep!!!

Finally after an hour and half of going downhill, we made it to the entrance. You had to go into this pile of rubble (see pic below) and climb down to the beach.

This is the sculpture, with Kristian climbing down on the inside of it.....

and me too!

 Finally we were down on the beach....

 rather amazing.......

 After resting for about 15 minutes we had the long climb up again!!!

We made it - just about!!!

By this time I had had enough nature. It was time to hit the big city and go and wander around the shops, so we headed to a city called Helsingborg. We had been there years ago when I was pregnant with Sara so we thought it could be fun to check it out again.

We enjoyed our afternoon in the city and ended it with a cold Coke in the sun. It was the end to a great couple of days away (we feel like we have been away for a week!) Some more  great memories have been created and tucked away in our memory bank!!