What I meant to say before the fat finger of fate sent the email too early was that the online auction that Olof follows allows for a viewing of the available items for two days before the live auction begins. This is just one of the lots I considered placing a bid on after we visited the auction house.

Here’s another.

Olof and his friend/landlord discuss the finer points of farming.

The following are views around Olof’s house. From the front towards the barn. There are often cows in the field to the right.

From the front toward the left.

The front.

The fruit orchard from the front to the right.

The back.

From the back. In the distance on the right is an industrial park, but you don’t even really know it is there because first you see the other farmhouse. There are usually horses in the field out there.

We went to a WWII museum near the coast. It was part of the coastal defense system, with guns facing Denmark.

Siting for a net across the channel. Unfortunately the system was built in collaboration with Germany to keep the Allies out.

Cook stove for soup and pancakes.

Dad would not have done well here: five minute time limit!

The Swedes did take in 40,000 Finnish children during the war.

I was calling this the flying stretcher, but really it shows a configuration by which a stretcher is carried between two bicycles.

And a barracks that could be dismantled and moved if the soldiers were to stay in one place longer than it was feasible or comfortable to use tents. The darker spots half way up the left of the window are the bolts.

Ceiling above the bunks, also with bolts visible.

Then to Palle and Helena’s house for dinner with first a visit to the horses. The horse has been to the World Championships in dressage.

And since in Sweden it is illegal to have only one horse (he must have companionship), this is his pony stablemate .

And of course the dog, Pennie.