Returning from Bali, via Changi airport in Singapore, only gave us a rough 72 hour window, before we had to be back again for our long longed for trip to Sweden to visit family and friends. I actually hadn't been back for almost two years! We are now routine flyers from Asia to Northern Europe and have understood the priceless value of boarding late evening and flying over night. At least it's great for Jonas, who basically gets on the plane, eats and falls asleep. And he stays asleep. For about 10 hours. Good stuff.
We landed early morning and quartered ourselves in the back cabin of Jonas' parents' place. It was sunny and all, but morning temperature was no more than 10 degrees C and I almost froze to death. No wonder I was in complete shock during my visit in 2010, when it dropped from around 0 to -16 over night in my home town Ulricehamn. And -16 degress C is not even close to cold..
Father in law, Hans, showing off the latest additions in the green house. And yes, there are green houses in Sweden ;)
Jonas chewing away on a home grown cucumber, standing underneath the grapes. And yes again, you can grow both cucumber and grapes in Sweden ;)
Even tomatoes grow on our northern longitudes!
Husband checking out the up-the-hill-deck-grill-and-smoke, to make sure everything is there.
I of course had to make sure about the motorcycle, since I've missed that old thing enormously; getting a pic with me and it turned out to be trickier than I though though..
..but I managed in the end!
I do however need my husband to drive it (since it's a custom bike at 1100cc and weighs a lot)..
..which we of course wanted to do straight away!
We then started the dreaded un-and-re-packing.
We only went down the street during that first ride, but as soon as we found all our gear in our tucked away boxes, Hans also came for a ride.
And OMG is there a lot of gear: protective drag jeans, socks (considering I haven't worn real socks in over a year, this does feel weird), back plate, leather scarf..
..leather jacket (how I love that jacket!)..
..and finally helmet and gloves.
One of the evening we also had to check out one of the new family attributes: the boat!
Happy mother- and sister-in-law with slightly suspicious nephew ;)
I love boats!
We set our aim for one of the smaller islands about 20 mins from the docks.
Jonas acted like our fearless 'hopp-iland-Kalle' i. e. the first one ashore to tie up the boat.
Then it was just to bring all the ingredients for a smashing picnic!
And it is nice with 'Allemansratten' e. i. you can almost go anywhere in nature in Sweden and you are allowed to camp, BBQ or go for a swim, unless you are more or less in someone's backyard.
Hence, you can take your boat out to the archipelago, bring food etc and have a completely secluded day with your family almost wherever.
Heading back we took a detour around Gottskar Harbor, beautiful as ever in the sun set.
Boats were coming and going as usual on the almost mirror like water..
..and we slowly but surely reached our final destination for that time..
..and managed to get safely ashore again aided by this exemplary gentleman!
All in all, we had a great couple of days in Onsala; thank you Jeanette, Hans, Annika and Hugo for making them so special!
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