Tinker's photos

afternoon outing to Tivarsgården

25 Feb 2018 84
The remains of the cake buffet. Clever system - you load up your plate with however much you want of each cake, take it to the counter, they weigh it and you pay by the gram. This way you can try as many cakes as you like, in the quantities you want. Norderön

afternoon outing to Tivarsgården

25 Feb 2018 96
icicles on the restaurant roof - on Norderön

afternoon outing to Tivarsgården

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I love the old wooden buildings. The brown colour is the most common house paint in Sweden. It is a by-product of the copper mining

afternoon outing to Tivarsgården

25 Feb 2018 69
This dairy has its own restaurant and farm shop and is very popular. Came here last week with Sara but it was late and already closed. Norderön

snowmobile

25 Feb 2018 80
the first one I have seen close up. It's on the frozen Storsjön (Great Lake)

jetty on the lake

25 Feb 2018 78
in the summer they have kayaks. This is Storsjön (Great Lake), which is Sweden's fifth biggest lake.

skiing on the lake

25 Feb 2018 71
Västgårdsholmen is the island they are skiing to, over the frozen Storsjön (Great Lake)

skiing on the lake

25 Feb 2018 75
A family cross country skiing across Storsjön (Great Lake), which is Sweden's fifth biggest lake.

Åre mountains

25 Feb 2018 73
this is where the well heeled crowd from Stockholm go to ski

old houses on Norderön

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they all look like gingerbread houses

how you park your car

25 Feb 2018 75
this stops your windscreen wipers freezing onto your windscreen

driving across Norderön

Norderö Kyrka - this time with blue skies

25 Feb 2018 73
This church was built in 1171, and is located on Norderön

old houses on Norderön

old houses on Norderön

old houses on Norderön

dangerous gods

25 Feb 2018 99
The travel author Bill Bryson said he enjoys not speaking another language as it makes everything magical! You can decide yourself what you want stuff to mean. In this area of Norse gods and sea monsters, I prefer to interpret this sign as meaning "dangerous gods"

driving across the Storsjön (Great Lake)

25 Feb 2018 74
ice road over the frozen Storsjön (Great Lake)

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