Dalecarlian adventure
Yesterday we took a trip in Dalarna. We left home shortly after half past eleven and after almost 2 hours on route we were in Rättvik at half past one, we were going there because of the market. We weren't home until half past eight in the evening. Then we had also been stopped by the police once! And today (Sunday) started with a parking fine saying that the car was "parked on a reserved unlet parkingplace", which is totally wrong! Our landlord, I suppose, has made the mistake to tell the company that handles the fines, that all places are unlet even though we have ours on period of notice, which is until December :(
Borlänge-Leksand
After taking the wrong road a few times we ended up on the right track on the small and fun roads that also are known as Rexbosvängen (sväng=turn). It really tickled in my belly going uphill and then downhill - I couldn't even see how the road would continue because it was so steep uphill. I thought that we were about to take off from the crest any second!!
Leksand-Tällberg
On the way there we took the tourist road between Leksand and Rättvik, and the surroundings were really beautiful! I wouldn't say that the road itself was very good, partly it was very bumpy. But Janne thought it was very fun to drive because of the nice bends, which his car really is made for (it's a bit special, not a common Volvo exactly). Between Leksand and Rättvik I noticed a dead fox by the road. It had such a lovely fur - bright red and a darker part on the tip of the tail. We also stopped in Tällberg. What a place! :) Beautiful wooden houses in genuine Dalecarlian style, hotels and SPAs here and there, art galleries and shops of all kinds and the streets didn't have their common names like -gatan and -vägen (both words mean road) but instead they were called -gattu. For example: instead of Storgatan it's Storgattu, according to old dialect, I would assume.
In Tällberg we also saw a car just like Janne's, that's why we stopped so that he could leave the car club's calling card on the windshield of the car, but he were out of them. Just then the driver and his wife (I assume) appeared from the gallery next to the parking - gosh what they looked at our car! We left without Janne presenting himself to them though. Before we stopped there we saw another car of the same model, or should I say, I saw it. Janne didn't have the chance to see it concentrating on the road. It was full of yellow bumper stickers, just like the rally version, and it was blue. I wonder if you'd buy that kind of car just because the roads in your neighbourhood are so fun to drive on...
Finally there
Finally in Rättvik, we wondered how we would find the market place. We didn't have to think about it long though, the whole town was the market place! You could find everything there! Everything that you usually can find in markets, like clothes, candy, sausages and cheeses and also some vegetables (from Öland by the way :)), equipment for the home, tools, big as small ones, and a variety of nicknacks. The things that were unusual were the scooters, the tractors, the animals (cows and goats for example) and there were pony rides of course, the small wooden houses on sale, and the little excavator - only 99.900 SEK tax excluded! Isn't that cheap! ;)
When the market were about to close and the people were about to pack their things at six o'clock we hadn't seen all of it, even though we had spent over 4 hours there! One street we just saw one side of, another street we didn't even have time to walk down. When we chose directions of where to go, we chose one street over the other because we thought it wasn't so long, so that we could go back and follow the main track. That's what we thought. When we got to the end of the street and saw the next crossing we realized that it was no idea to choose where to go - it was just to keep on walking! Main track by the way, I don't even think there was such a thing - because everything was so big! The last thing we did was to check out the big market hall that we actually had to ask the way to, to be able to find it behind the merry-go-rounds. (We had heard about it on the speakers.) We got there 12 minutes before they were about to shut down, but I managed to make some shopping after all :)
What I bought:
Parking ticket
A pair of red gloves (because I really needed them at the time!)
A white fleece cardigan
A pair of cosy inner soles made of lamb wool
A pair of warm socks
3 purple balls and 1 grey ball of yarn, reminding of mohair
Besides that I had a doughnut dipped in sugar :) and a hamburger with ketchup, mustard and onion.
Janne bought a little aluminium box (the ones you can use as a wallet) and a set whereof you could make your own floating candles. And from the household funds we bought a special piece for the kitchen tap in order to be able to change the flow of water, some vegetables from Öland, and three loaves of bread that seemed delicious.
The way home
I was very happy that we didn't take the narrow roads home (it was foggy, dark and a lot of wild animals in the woods) but the big road. So, hadn't we stopped to shop some food in Falun I think we could have been home in one and a half hour instead of two. It takes longer when you don't know the store and where the raisins are located for example. After that we were stopped by the police. I hadn't even noticed it but all day long we had been driving without the number plate in the front! Janne was fully aware of it, but he didn't think that there would be any cops on those small roads. No, but in Borlänge there were. If you see a car behind you that twinkles with red and blue from the roof and that signals with the full beam and it's dark outside, so that you can't see what kind of car it is, then it's hard to know how to react. Especially if you're driving on a highway with only one lane in your direction and you can't do very much than to keep on driving. First I thought it was an ambulance, but when we stopped in an overtaking area with two lanes it turned out that it was a police car, and a police man who wanted to see Janne's licence and check out if he were drunk. He also wanted to inform him that he was driving without the number plate in the front and told him that there's a 400 SEK fine for doing so. But Janne must have seemed very honest and responsible when he replied that he had forgotten to put it back after a shooting of some pics of a bunch of cars when he had removed the number plate in order to not have to do it in Photoshop later on. (This was also the truth.) Anyway, the alcotesting went fine (no reason that it shouldn't) and the policeman were kind enough to not give Janne any fine, though he told him to put that plate on as soon as possible.
It's nice to know that the police do their job and investigate the ones who drive illegally in some way - I mean, it could have been some drunk perpetual speeder that had removed the plate because of the surveillance cameras... Nor drunk drivers nor perpetual speeders are not to take lighthearted on! We discovered that on our trip - we saw both one and two reckless overtakings where things could have gone really bad if the other road users hadn't been mindful.
Finally at home it was time to make something to eat. Leftovers from the pizzas from Friday as first course, and then soup on the purchased vegetables and tasty sandwiches from the market loaves! And how good it felt to be back home again!
Borlänge-Leksand
After taking the wrong road a few times we ended up on the right track on the small and fun roads that also are known as Rexbosvängen (sväng=turn). It really tickled in my belly going uphill and then downhill - I couldn't even see how the road would continue because it was so steep uphill. I thought that we were about to take off from the crest any second!!
Leksand-Tällberg
On the way there we took the tourist road between Leksand and Rättvik, and the surroundings were really beautiful! I wouldn't say that the road itself was very good, partly it was very bumpy. But Janne thought it was very fun to drive because of the nice bends, which his car really is made for (it's a bit special, not a common Volvo exactly). Between Leksand and Rättvik I noticed a dead fox by the road. It had such a lovely fur - bright red and a darker part on the tip of the tail. We also stopped in Tällberg. What a place! :) Beautiful wooden houses in genuine Dalecarlian style, hotels and SPAs here and there, art galleries and shops of all kinds and the streets didn't have their common names like -gatan and -vägen (both words mean road) but instead they were called -gattu. For example: instead of Storgatan it's Storgattu, according to old dialect, I would assume.
In Tällberg we also saw a car just like Janne's, that's why we stopped so that he could leave the car club's calling card on the windshield of the car, but he were out of them. Just then the driver and his wife (I assume) appeared from the gallery next to the parking - gosh what they looked at our car! We left without Janne presenting himself to them though. Before we stopped there we saw another car of the same model, or should I say, I saw it. Janne didn't have the chance to see it concentrating on the road. It was full of yellow bumper stickers, just like the rally version, and it was blue. I wonder if you'd buy that kind of car just because the roads in your neighbourhood are so fun to drive on...
Finally there
Finally in Rättvik, we wondered how we would find the market place. We didn't have to think about it long though, the whole town was the market place! You could find everything there! Everything that you usually can find in markets, like clothes, candy, sausages and cheeses and also some vegetables (from Öland by the way :)), equipment for the home, tools, big as small ones, and a variety of nicknacks. The things that were unusual were the scooters, the tractors, the animals (cows and goats for example) and there were pony rides of course, the small wooden houses on sale, and the little excavator - only 99.900 SEK tax excluded! Isn't that cheap! ;)
When the market were about to close and the people were about to pack their things at six o'clock we hadn't seen all of it, even though we had spent over 4 hours there! One street we just saw one side of, another street we didn't even have time to walk down. When we chose directions of where to go, we chose one street over the other because we thought it wasn't so long, so that we could go back and follow the main track. That's what we thought. When we got to the end of the street and saw the next crossing we realized that it was no idea to choose where to go - it was just to keep on walking! Main track by the way, I don't even think there was such a thing - because everything was so big! The last thing we did was to check out the big market hall that we actually had to ask the way to, to be able to find it behind the merry-go-rounds. (We had heard about it on the speakers.) We got there 12 minutes before they were about to shut down, but I managed to make some shopping after all :)
What I bought:
Parking ticket
A pair of red gloves (because I really needed them at the time!)
A white fleece cardigan
A pair of cosy inner soles made of lamb wool
A pair of warm socks
3 purple balls and 1 grey ball of yarn, reminding of mohair
Besides that I had a doughnut dipped in sugar :) and a hamburger with ketchup, mustard and onion.
Janne bought a little aluminium box (the ones you can use as a wallet) and a set whereof you could make your own floating candles. And from the household funds we bought a special piece for the kitchen tap in order to be able to change the flow of water, some vegetables from Öland, and three loaves of bread that seemed delicious.
The way home
I was very happy that we didn't take the narrow roads home (it was foggy, dark and a lot of wild animals in the woods) but the big road. So, hadn't we stopped to shop some food in Falun I think we could have been home in one and a half hour instead of two. It takes longer when you don't know the store and where the raisins are located for example. After that we were stopped by the police. I hadn't even noticed it but all day long we had been driving without the number plate in the front! Janne was fully aware of it, but he didn't think that there would be any cops on those small roads. No, but in Borlänge there were. If you see a car behind you that twinkles with red and blue from the roof and that signals with the full beam and it's dark outside, so that you can't see what kind of car it is, then it's hard to know how to react. Especially if you're driving on a highway with only one lane in your direction and you can't do very much than to keep on driving. First I thought it was an ambulance, but when we stopped in an overtaking area with two lanes it turned out that it was a police car, and a police man who wanted to see Janne's licence and check out if he were drunk. He also wanted to inform him that he was driving without the number plate in the front and told him that there's a 400 SEK fine for doing so. But Janne must have seemed very honest and responsible when he replied that he had forgotten to put it back after a shooting of some pics of a bunch of cars when he had removed the number plate in order to not have to do it in Photoshop later on. (This was also the truth.) Anyway, the alcotesting went fine (no reason that it shouldn't) and the policeman were kind enough to not give Janne any fine, though he told him to put that plate on as soon as possible.
It's nice to know that the police do their job and investigate the ones who drive illegally in some way - I mean, it could have been some drunk perpetual speeder that had removed the plate because of the surveillance cameras... Nor drunk drivers nor perpetual speeders are not to take lighthearted on! We discovered that on our trip - we saw both one and two reckless overtakings where things could have gone really bad if the other road users hadn't been mindful.
Finally at home it was time to make something to eat. Leftovers from the pizzas from Friday as first course, and then soup on the purchased vegetables and tasty sandwiches from the market loaves! And how good it felt to be back home again!
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