Summer Journey to Sweden 2008

During our last year's journey to Sweden, none of the common preconceptions (mosquitos, rain, cold) have been confirmed. So, we went North again, to the country of ride-on lawnmowers and disposable BBQ's (just to create some new prejudices).

With only one week in-between, two interesting events took place (we already reported before): the World Dog Show in Stockholm, a big event with 20.661 entered dogs, and the Skokloster Summer Show, the yearly top event in the Scandinavian sighthound world, with about 970 sighthounds each day. To our knowledge, there is no bigger sighthound show in Europe.

To additionally do something for the education of our Galgos, we did not only visit sighthound shows, but also provided them several cultural highlights, like e.g. petroglyphs, stone tombs, stone ships from the era of the Vikings and several castles. Only few may know that there are numerous castles and manor-houses around the Lake Mälaren, waiting to be discovered. All without crowded parking places, high parking taxes and swarms of people. Often, we were the only ones, taking a walk in the generously proportioned palace gardens...