Vänern och Vättern

This was our last big trip together in Sweden. Together with Eva, Emilie, Kara, Mel and I travelled to the two biggest lakes in the country. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the driving was very pleasant. We stopped several times along the long lake and eventually made it to our cabin on the south tip of lake Vänern. The cabin was one of those picturesque little wooden houses painted red with the white trim. After exploring the area a bit we took a drive around and had a picnic near the quarry in the picture above right. To the left of it is a view right out from our cottage. The photo below is one of my favorites that I took in Lidskoeping.

These photos below are from the drive up to the lakes and the first stop we took. The little fishing village we stopped at had some gorgeous vistas and sitting out on the pier was really relaxing.

This might have been the first and only proper castle that we saw on all our excursions in Sweden. Many of the castles we saw may have been labelled so but compared to the ones you might see in Germany you could hardly call many of them castles. This white one below was recently repainted so it looked very nice.