Helene Sjöholm på Falkenbergs visfestival

Efter en stunds stiltje (hur det nu stavas) bloggar jag lite från Falkenbergs visfestival. På programmet står Helene Sjöholm och förbandet är Ullaredsförmågan Anna Liljedahl...

Riktig svensk sommar!!!!!!!

Örserum

During the vacation we spent a few days in Örserum at my father and Karin's summer house. Very nice and relaxing! It was also fun that my uncle Mats and his wife Ann-Marie joined for a couple of days. Me and Lars haven't met them for several years.
The air was very clean and fresh ;) much better than in Beijing.

Picking berries - raspberries and cherries. Mums! :)

The grill prince and the grill king are fixing dinner. A debate whether my father or Lars is the king is constantly ongoing and as far as I am aware no agreement has been reached yet ;)

Relaxing with cold beer in the afternoon.

Bröderna brothers down to the right in the picture :)

A small trip to the Vättern lake.

Åsa, Anna och Fredrik på Vattsgård

Finbesök på Vattsgård - Fredrik, Anna och Åsa ;) Maggan var såklart också där.

Hurtbullarna ute på en långpromenad. Skönt att komma ut och röra lite på fläsket och dessutom få andas lite frisk luft :) Inte illa!

Grillning på kvällen. Magnus, Stina och Johan var också med.

Pannkakstårta! gjord av mästerkocken själv.. ;) Riktigt smarrig blev den. Hihi, lite stolt är jag nog allt ;)

Åhh ljuva 80-tal! :)

Guidad visning av Vattsgårds grisar av experten Magnus. Dom små är ju bara såå söta.

Göteborg

Dinner at Åsa's place in Göteborg with Kalle and Åsa.
Åsa was really struggling with the inflatable bed ;)

Lunch at a famous restaurant in the harbour - I cannot remember the name right now though. The fish was quite good I must say.
On the tram to the lunch restaurant we had company with two interesting guys ;)
After lunch we met up with Mattias for a beer in the city.

Dinner at Chrille, Marie and Viktor's place. BBQ!

A lot of people in the kitchen at the same time - Marie, Maria, Erik, Kalle, Viktor, Mattias, Karin, Åsa, Chrille and Lasse.

The boys are playing :) Chrille's excavator was really poplular during the night.

Having sushi together with Åsa in Göteborg. I could enjoy some mamma sushi! Really really good! I have definitely missed to eat sushi during these months.

We also had some fika in a cosy café in the some of the older parts of Göteborg.

SPA with the girls

Relaxing at a SPA in Torekov together with Åsa and Anna. Really really nice :)

Having lunch and ice cream in the small Torekov harbour. I got a BIG fish for lunch.

Dinner in the restaurant was included in the SPA package. Good food, but a little bit too much...hard to eat 'lagom' when it is buffet ;)

Having a nice time in our little house :)

Henrik and Charlotte's wedding

Henrik and Charlotte's wedding (Henrik is Lars' cousin) just outside Båstad in Skåne. The ceremony in the church was very nice.

Me and Lars outside the church

Henrik and Charlotte outside the place where the dinner was held, all the guests on the wedding and the Wattsgård family.

Dancing dancing dancing!

Vattsgård

Barnen på Vattsgård med respektive är välkomna hem :) Gulligt!

Mera grillning på den stora hemmabyggda grillen

Magnus, morfar Erik, Maggan, syster Maria och Olov - alla var hemma på Vattsgård samtidigt.

Middag hos Lasses faster Cilla och hennes man Lenne i deras sommarstuga utanför Falkenberg.

Cilla, Magnus, Maggan, Lenne, Stina och Johan.

Obligatoriskt sommarbad :) En av oss var lite för mesig... och tog på sig rollen som fotograf istället.

Fler gäster på Vattsgård. Lasses kollega Tea, hennes man Mårten och deras lille son Tage kom på besök en dag. Kalle var också på besök samtidigt.

Ser kallt ut! Någon var ju tvungen att ta på sig ansvaret att vara fotograf även denna gång... ;)

Lund

Dinner at Carlssons trädgård together with some friends in Lund. Nice to meet you guys again - doesn't happen too often nowadays.
Johan, Vanja, Kalle, Ola, Bea, Marie, Magnus and Filip.

In Lund we also met Niklas, Stina and there little Albin. It seems like Albin already now is quite interested in his father's beer ;)

Härlig sommar!

Har varit hos faster Inger och fikat!
Solen skiner och det är superhärligt med semester...

Stockholm

Finally I got to meet little Sonja at Siri and Henrik's place. She is really cute and looks very much like her mother. Lars brought her a Chinese book about different kinds of vehicles - I'm not sure whether she found it interesting or not ;)

Dinner at Carro and Jimmy's place. They had made some nice homemade pie :)

Fika together with Marie in Vällingby.

There was also time to have a quick lunch together with Jenny, before I was leaving for Lund.

Liina and Micke in Beijing - focus on eating :)

Favorite hotpot again - Haidilao

The new thing in Beijing seems to be adding a piece of cucumber in the beer - hmm... a bit strange!

Lasse and Micke at Haidilao

The sevice at Haidilao is really good - you can get a free manicure or your shoes polished. Liina just had to try out the manicure.

And here is the result - Nice :)

Having lunch at Middle 8. I decided that Lasse, Micke and Liina had to try the rice wine ;) - mainly since it is served from this nice "carafe". However they didn't like it that much and we left most of it in the container.

Eating steak at Union Bar & Grille after a long day of shopping. We spent almost the whole day at Yashow and were in need of some good food after that :)

Looking good! :)

Bye bye Ida

Now the time has come also for Ida to go back to Sweden :( We had a farewell dinner at a Japanese restaurant in Wudaokou. Marten and Matthew are also leaving Beijing.

A lot of people met up to say farewell.

Jacob and Gamze are also going back home :( Too many people leaving Beijing right now.