Sweden

I have a Dutch friend who lives in Sweden and earlier this year I agreed to come over to Sweden for a week to teach her some of my scrapbooking techniques. While we were making plans, in July her husband suddenly passed away when he was walking the dog and our plans had to be adjusted a little bit. I flew from Amsterdam to Stockholm on October 13 and took a local flight to Nora, where I got a rental car to drive up to Hällefors. I stayed at her place for a week and we talked, laughed, cried and had fun together. And we did some scrapbooking as well. I hoped to cheer her up a bit with my visit, because she was feeling down in this period, Because she always had to depend on her husband to take her out to go shopping or sightseeing (she isn't able to move around easily), my visit did her some good. We took the car to go to the shopping mall in Nora and did some sightseeing around Hällefors and visited another Dutch friend, that lives nearby.

Josephine's friend, Cecilia is also Dutch and she invited us to come over for dinner one night during my stay. We had Swedish skinkgräting and it tasted so good that she got me the recipe. When I got home again, I made this Swedish dish and my family loved it as well!!