A house by the sea..

Our vacation is almost over and I’m actually overcome with a touch of melancholy. We had an amazing this by lake Tolken and even though I can’t say we had a tropical climate, the weather was superb for Swedish relations.

Vladimir and Irma were in the water every day. For Irma it was paradise anyway. Out of the house into the garden to the water. She certainly doesn’t have that freedom in Vienna.

Here she took her first steps into the lake and loved it from the first second!

Also boating was a new experience for the little one. My brother Lukas went out every night to go fishing at the lake. He only caught tiny fish though, who found their way back into the water really fast.

Even Edgar wanted to try to be a fisher. Lukas collected earthworms for him and then they could start - old school fishing. But his patience only lasted for a little while.

It is almost a duty to spin a round with the boat. My brother was the helmsman and Vladimir, Irma and I were able to just enjoy the ride. Irma in the beginning thought, that it was way too exciting and then she suddenly fell asleep.

Maybe the waves were calming after all.

I am not really a mermaid and enjoyed the lake from the beach.

Especially the sunsets are amazingly beautiful here. The light is different than in Vienna, hard to describe, but somehow clearer.

For my taste sunset pictures are kind of boring, here I took pictures like a crazy person. The sun goes down really late. At 11pm it’s still dawn.

Here a picture of the moon, how it reflects itself int the lake. So the mood is really something special. I can suggest to everyone to go to Sweden in summer. Not only at lake Tolken you can find beautiful places. But really important - it has to be summer, because winter is very dull here.

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