Last Saturday was the most beautiful winter day I had in Sweden since I came here, almost 2 years ago. There was snow, which wasn’t very common last winter, and sun, which just isn’t very common.
I went on a hike with two work colleagues in Tyresta National Park.
We started in Tyresta By, from where we chose a path toward lake Bylsjön. We stopped near the lake for a cup of hot coffee from the thermos and a couple of sandwiches with caviar and boiled eggs. The trail is very easy to walk on, being made to also allow people with child carriages.
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After spending about 3 hours in Tyresta, we drove to Sandemar in a reservation which has bird observation points. When we got there, we met a guy who probably came to watch birds, judging by the telephoto lens hanging from his neck. He told us that there is a swan trapped in the ice a couple of hundred meters from the shore.
Swan on ice
We stayed there for about 30 min and saw the swan moving for a couple of meters, so apparently it wasn’t actually trapped. My Swedish colleague told me that these things happen quite often in the winter; the birds fall asleep and find themselves trapped in the forming ice.
We also met three skaters who came on ice all the way from Saltsjöbaden, a very brave thing to do, considering the distance of about 40km and the fact that the ice wasn’t very solid.
From Sandemar we took off to Dalarö, a small and cozy harbor town, where we had some duck company, interested in the leftovers from a tunnbrodsrulle, which is some sort of a Swedish kebab with sausage, that marked the end of the day.
