Mårbacka

In addition to Forest Finns, we are at our other long-awaited destination, Mårbacka. This is where Sweden's first Nobel Prize laureate in literature lived and she was also the first female Nobel Prize laureate in literature. And above all, a fantastic writer. A remarkable woman, Selma Lagerlöf.
Mårbacka is now a museum entirely by her own directive.
Extras: She has written the fantastic book about Nils Holgersson who flew on a tame goose that accompanied a flock of wild geese all the way up to the northernmost Sweden. 
S. L. was born with a disability and as a child had difficulty walking. While on a vacation trip with her parents south in Sweden, she saw a peacock and became fond of it and got up and walked up to it. She believed that it was the bird that made her healthy. It became her lucky bird. From adulthood when she bought back her childhood home Mårbacka, she has always kept peacocks there. And so it is still today.

From Mårbacka we went to the next hotel, which is an inn with history behind the name, Apertin. It is not a Swedish word. Legend says that monks came from Aberdeen in Scotland and formed a monastery here. It is long gone. Aberdeen became in Swedish Apertin, it sounded more Swedish.The Swedish name lives on with the manor house that was built on the monastery grounds in the 17th century. In one of the outbuildings of the mansion there is the inn where we stay for a night.
It is not only the inn that has an exciting history. The road is exciting, too exciting. From the car park you walk on a suspension bridge over a ravine. The suspension bridge rocked a lot. It was not something I appreciated.
Imagine what fun and interesting things you learn. Things you have to do even though you are afraid.