EXPLORING A LITTLE BIT OF SWEDEN

The small town of Osby was just a 20 minute walk from my lodgings. It only took me about ¾ hour to check all the shops out. A couple of supermarkets, a few clothing shops. A local travel business that organises United States travel has brought a little of the wild west to Osby.

Fort Swanson

A lot of houses have flower boxes outside and large window sills inside so there are plenty of flowers and plants.

Flower boxes

I think one of the houses adjoining this park would be a fabulous place to live with young children. What a huge backyard.

Park in Osby

I saw a lot of housing estates that had a similar style. Rows of connected houses with a shed at the front.

Sandra, Mats wife, drove up from Södra Sandby and Gunnel, Sandra and I went to Ikea at Ämmhult. This was the town where the first Ikea store was built in 1958. This store was very similar to the one in Tempe Sydney. The same size 35,000 sm. It had a couple of things the Sydney store didnt have – plants and electrical goods.

I loved the white televisions sets. I bought a couple of little things. What I liked most was a tad too large for my suitcase. The way they make beds in Scandinavia fascinates me. There is a thick pad on top of the mattresss that is covered with a sheeet. Then individual duvet covers are folded on top of that. The pillows are more like square cushions than our pillows.

The following day Sandra and I went shopping to Hässleholm. This town was larger than Osby and had a few more shops. I love the carving of this tree trunk by our car park.

We wandered around and forgot that our parking was for two hours. Got to the car more than four and a half hours later to find we had not received a ticket. Was interesting the number of stores I have been in to see Jason placemats from New Zealand.

More interesting was the fact that you had to pay to go to the toilet. About 87 NZ cents too! Too bad if you had a major problem.