Linköping

After lunch we headed on to another trail I had found (I just looked on my trail app for easy under 5k trails next to the road and picked one about the right distance away for a stop that had nice photos) and that quick stop turned into a long one as Raymond said. We were driving up to the hike and I was like where are we going to be walking?? Cause everything was so flat and farmlands and then we saw a small group of trees and we were like I guess in there…Well we walked around/through a calcareous fen, which I had never heard of! It’s wet all year and the water is rich in lime and other minerals, but not much nutrients so the plant life is very different than the surrounding as it has had to adapt to that. The sign at the beginning also said there were a lot of fungus and mosses so I knew we were going to be a while! It also has some special snails and beetles, though we didn’t see any of them. Oh and there are a few types of orchids that only grow here! Again we didn’t see them, but pretty cool! The fen is surrounded by woodlands that help keep it as it should be. So we wandered all over and found all the fungi! Some of it was really tiny and strange…some was so well camouflaged it took a min to find even with Raymond pointing it out!

We also heard some woodpeckers and could feel the vibrations on the trees, but couldn’t see them as there were too many leaves in the way. So much fun! Such a fun stop!!

Then it was on to get water and groceries and my goodness it was a mess! People just fly through the parking almost hiting people it was crazy! You would look and no one would be there so start to cross and all of a sudden a car is almost upon you! I did not like that…By the time we were done in that town I was like get us out of here!!! When we were looking for a place to move overseas we did consider Stockholm also as we both really liked it there, but today I was like I am so glad we ended up in Berlin! I like the nice, orderly driving there.

Oh! I totally forgot! Yesterday we were driving and went by a rest stop that had a restaurant and there was no sign with a name or anything, but the word on Swedish that Google translate to „Human Food“ which made me laugh so much! Like what else would they serve? Seems suspicious they have to say it is for humans…

All in all today was a great day! We are heading south so the sun is in our face all day while driving, but the stops were great and made it feel more like a vacation day than a travel day! We have also gotten far enough south that the leaves are just starting to change colors here and there.Read more