Take a Walk..

..With Us!

Emma and I decided that a good little walk around Kristianstad's Biosphere Reserve would be a good way to spend a Monday. A nice 6km walk through some nice surroundings, in the hot sun on a stunning day. Then picking up some berries from the market before heading home on a short 20min train ride. A relaxing type of day to start the second week of vacation..

We started our walk at the river, not exactly the proper starting point, but Emma and I rebels.. rebels without a cause! So we started here.. 

 

 

When we got across the bridge we saw this interesting building..

..that we decided we would come back to the end of the walk as they have a cafe in there as well as some interesting facts and stuff. 

Now we have the start of the walk..

 

As we walked on through the nice semi shaded area, we spotted a few little things along the way.. I kept thinking these things were alien flowers and would spit things at us at any moment.. we survived, coz you know, they didn't. I think it was too warm for the little aliens so they slept! 

There was also a lonely little raspberry.. that wasn't ready to eat. Sad! However, there was a few more a little further down the track.. Emma picked a few for me. Noms! There is just something so simple and lovely about eating berries freshly picked and in the.. *dundunduuuun* wild.

Then there was this big boy..

We continued on our merry little way until we came across this tower!

It looked a little wobbly/bouncy as Emma went up and took this snap..

After a little more walking on uneven grounds.. we came across the site where a castle once parked its big self. Nothing more than a large mound now.. perhaps the Swedes would call it a mountain?! haha 

We continued on and were greeted with some lovely flat paved road.. with potholes of course. However, on the sides of this road we had some lovely fieldy views and a lone moo... who seemed to be keeping fit by doing laps!

And of course there were horses.. 

Before long, we were met with a bridge! There were warnings on this bridge, it led to an area with *dundunduuuun* aggressive cows!

We braved the cows and headed along the dirt road.. the sun was out in full force.. beating down on us.. Emma was starting to look a little red.. I was, for once, clever and had sunscreened well.

As we neared the end of the dirt road we saw a welcoming sight.. wooden slats to walk along in the coolness of a shaded area.. 

oh, how wrong we were! The slats were uneven in spacing and it took some fun manoeuvring to make sure one didn't step wrong and roll an ankle.. or something. We made it to the end, all intact with no real injuries apart from a little sunburn on Emma's shoulders. During the course of the walk, the parentals had called and asked if we could go and tend to the dogs when we were done so they could go off gasbagging. It was an easy ask, and who doesn't love spending time with pups! So instead of heading into the building we skipped at the start, we headed to the markets, grabbed some berries.. then an ice cream coz we were quite hungry but didn't want to stop for lunch when we could have leftovers at the parentals. Berries and ice cream in hand, we headed to the station.. jumped on the train.. told the parentals we would be at the dogs within the hour... or so we thought!

We hit a little bad luck on the trains.. it was all smooth sailing until we passed Vinslov.. where our train appeared to lose power. Just a little hiccup we thought.. but it turned out to be more than a hiccup. The cable had come down ahead of us and started a fire. So there we sat, in +30 degree heat on a non air-conditioned train waiting to find out what was going to happen.. time ticked on by.. we had to call Emma's brother to then go and deal with the dogs.. and eventually he came to pick us up once we were able to move the train back to the previous station.. over 3 hours after our journey started, we were at our final destination. It was madness but all you could really do was laugh. Stuck on a hot train with no liquids and berries.. but SO very glad we were clever enough to down some ice cream beforehand.

Definitely an interesting way to start the second week! Gotta keep you on your toes! I still chuckle at the people who got on in Vinslöv just to get stuck! Now that's some bad luck!