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Tuesday 10th June 2014

Herr Thylin served up a fine breakfast for us to start the day and as an early 70th birthday gift ( September this year ) he has kindly arranged for us to take a boat  from Saltholmen at the mouth of the Gota River through  the superb Gothenburg Archipelago. The trip takes us past the island of Donso to Styrso where we have a great lunch at Pensionat Styro Skaret which is a lovely location looking out over the water.

Stefan, David, Gail

We take our time over lunch and after a stroll around a small part if the island we are off on another ferry to the island of Vrango where Stefan’s family have had a summer house for many years. It’s not surprising that he finds it easy to wind down in this idyllic spot and a short walk to a rocky lookout offers a panoramic vista of Vrango and the surrounding area.

We arrive back early evening to enjoy more strawberries which we had bought along the way and then reminisced on our miss-spent youth in the 1960’s.

Stefan and I stay up too late and he presents me with the latest book he has written, titled Guldbollen ( the Golden Ball ) which gives profiles on all the players who have won Swedish Football Player of the Year. As is his wont he writes a comment on the inside cover which is dripping in irony. It in fact reads ” to David-  from Gunnar Gren( a former Swedish legend) to Zlatan ( Ibrahimovic) a little bit Swedish Football history”

Marianne, Stefan’s partner of many years who sadly hasn’t been able to travel down from Stockholm, has kindly left for Gail a CD of a Swedish girl band, First Aid Kit who have been gaining an international reputation.

Cheers

The Obese Ferret