Friday, September 30, 2011

Summer House in Sweden

Lars installed the fence to keep big animals out of the potato patch

Looking toward the summer house from the harbor.
The big Swedish flag is flying to honor Ulla's birthday.



At the summer house

The harbor at lonestig

Lennart's garden. The farmer who owns the pasture adjacent to the
summer house lets Lennart use a small plot for his garden. Lennart
takes a bottle of champagne to the farmer every Christmas to thank him.
 
Glumsten at the entrance to Glommen harbor.Through its prominent position this boulder has always been an important sea mark on the Southwest coast of Sweden, which is otherwise quite uniform. The Glumsten stone is mentioned in the old sagas (in connection with the military expedition of King Harald Hårdråde in 1061 and King Hakon´s expeditions to Halland in 1256).

One detachment of King Hakon´s army went ashore near the Glumsten boulder August 24th 1256 and the following day they ravaged the nearby country. After that they went by boat down to the river Ätran and burned the borough that is now the city of Falkenberg.

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