Sweden, 2002

From left to right: Eva, John the Chalk, Enid, John, Katarina, Chris, Jac and Roger

Chris and Roger enjoying "meeting the natives"

Helen with an ice-cream on Drottningholm Island - even before starting walking! (Drottningholm Palace can be seen in the background)

Walking down towards the lake on Drottningholm Island

Chris and Roger cooling off and enjoying a picnic on Drottningholm Island

The open road on Drottningholm Island

An attractive Church on Drottningholm Island

Drottningholm Palace

Chris at one of the many medieval market stalls near our hotel to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the founding of Stockholm

Lynda enjoys Jan's strawberry, Arak and Champagne aperitif (Swedish punsch)

Eva, Enid, Tom and Chris after a wonderful meal of marinated salmon cooked by Jan

John spinning a yarn to Chris and Birgitta

Birgitta and Chris questioning John's state of mind

"Of course I'm mad"

"Oh Tom, these Swedes are so tactile"
(Tom and John waiting at the station for a train back to Stockholm)

"Wow ex WPC Bawden, where did you learn to leap ticket barriers like that?"

The Group arriving back at the Hotel.  Note John the-light-weight Chalk's make-over and carrier bag of wet clothes following his fall into the lake at Eva's.  (Or as Helen puts it, "Roy Cropper got pissed and went a cropper in the lake.")

Chris at Stansted airport, "This is worse than taking kids away"

Lake Stensjön in Tyresta National Park.

Another view of Lake Stensjön in Tyresta National Park

Walking through Tyresta National Park

A view from the boat on the way to Saltsjöbaden on the archipelago

Cottages on the archipelago

Heather outside the hotel

Celebrations for the 750th anniversary of the founding of Stockholm coincided with our visit

For more photographs click on the relevant link below.

BBQ 1997  
BBQ 2000  
Caricatures  
Cotswolds 1998 
Festival of Winter Walks 2000
Miscellaneous 
North Downs Way 2002 - 03
Provence 2001
Spain 1997
Sweden 2002  
Welland Valley 2002
Wessex Ridgeway 2000