Spanspek

Yesterday was Kajsa's big birthday party, with 60 guests under a large marquis. The rain held off enough in the preceding few days that it worked out well. Kajsa worked so hard. It was the rest of us who should have been working for her. Today we set off for a little town called Lesjörfors, where a mountain walk has been created. It passes through the land of the trolls. One sees them and signs of them all the way along the path. It's great fun. For Australians, accustomed to ten years of drought, it is staggering to see the amount of water in Sweden. There are lakes everywhere and, with the recent wet summer, the troll mountain was seeping water all over the plane. I doubt that we shall see the like of it in south-east Australia ever again.