Sunday, August 26, 2012

Breakfast in France, lunch in Monaco, dinner in Italy

After a train ride to Savona in Italy, and a lot of walking around trying to find the Hertz office in Savona (most of us getting quite tired and grumpy) we finally got our hire car for the next four days and left the coast and started driving north up through the hills.

After an hour we decided to start looking for a B&B and only a couple of minutes later this place turned up around the corner. Since the owner had to get the rooms ready for us and it was getting late (meaning we were hungry) we took a walk up to the little village to find a place to eat.





The little pizza place we found was much nicer than it looks in the pic and the food was great.

And the wine...

We ended the night ordering this to the room...


Bye bye France

After one night in France we jumped on the bus to Monaco.

Pretty stunning view from the bus window.

Still admiring the view standing in a hot bus...

Monaco! Adam has always wanted to see Monaco so here we go! Zara very nicely watched everyones bags while the rest of us went for a walk along the marina and up the hill to the casion.



Monaco is quite impressive and spending a few hours there is nice, but I felt happy to leave after walking around in the heat looking at expensive boats and houses and eating an average lunch.

Holidays!

Last year Adam and I went to New York with Zara and Micke while Adams parents looked after Jakob and Isak. This summer we decided to go to Italy together. Our first stop was France though, we flew to Nice and had a great afternoon, night and morning there.

First lunch and first of many glasses of wine!


Not really what we had planned, but we just couldn't resist a swim in the ocean.

We were lucky to pick a really nice, not so touristy, place for dinner.

Nice by night!

Cuddling on the couch

Jakob and Isak love their grandparents!

Riding club party!

Luleå Riding Club moved to a new location and new bulidings nearly 20 years ago but the memories from the old place are many. This summer a few girls organised a big party for everyone that was active at the riding club during the years before the big move. The old stables had been hired so everything was perfect for a success. Those of us who were there I think all had an amazing time. A night to remember for a long time.

Nice photos

Just a couple of nice photos of our beautiful boys!

Klubbviken

Grandma and Poppa were here for the fourth time but we have never taken the boat out to Klubbviken before. I love being out in the archipelago and always wonder why we don't go more often.

The kids loved it too and even though the air was quite fresh and not really warm enough for swimming they had a great time!


Poppa and Isak watching the boats.

Big family BBQ

As always when we have dinner at my brothers place the weather was nice and sunny when we all went there for a bbq in July.

Isak posing!


Kids play heaven!

Mum and Jane



Big kids playing soccer!


All the big kids where running around like crazy most of the night and it was hard to catch them on a photo. Isak on the other hand was calm and happy as always which gave me plenty of opportunities to take photos of the cutie.

Hägnan

On one of the few days Adam had off this summer we went to Hägnan for a play and lunch. The kids spent most of the time jumping in the hay as always.

New pyjamas!

Jakob in his new PJ from Australia! I love cotton on clothes!

One day Jakob and Tindra bulit a cubby house upstairs and that night Jakob wanted to sleep in it.

Grandma and poppa coming!

 
The day when Grandma and Poppa was arriving Jakob and Isak helped cleaning the house.

Finally here!! after waiting and counting days and cleaning grandma and poppa finally arrived all the way from Australia! with lots of presents as alawys! Not just for the kids, both Adam and I also got very spoilt!