Fi drove Max today. It was her first lesson in driving on the right. She did very well though she was concerned that other cars would come around the roundabouts from the wrong direction. She drove to Nyköping because she had hired a car and we were going to pick it up.
Essentially, the hire car is in order to fit the lot of us into one vehicle. And luggage, of course. We were thinking that it would take two trips in Max to get the kids from Vagnhärad to home, given all of Lauren’s luggage. The hire car, being three times the size of Max, will make things much easier.
Shortly before we were due to leave the house, the Fibre Guy turned up to dig the trench for the cable, connecting us to the world. Finally. He came equipped with a shovel, rake and spade. I thought he’d have a little machine but, no, he was digging away for a few hours before packing up and leaving. He’s coming back to finish in the morning.
Not that we saw him finish. We were driving through the beautiful scenery between us and Nyköping. For added excitement, Fi decided she needed to experience a short stretch of Swedish motorway so she headed up a slipway onto the E4.
Fortunately, we weren’t in Germany and the next exit was quite close. We were soon headed back and pulling into the car park of the wrong building. Though, to be fair to the navigator, Darren had said number eight. Not number six. Where he actually was. With the car.
I am assuming it was Darren. That’s who I spoke to on the phone about Fi’s details. If it was Darren, according to Mirinda and Fi, he has a tendency towards high-pitched giggling. I didn’t see (or hear) him as I was walking the dogs through a strange industrial landscape next to the car place.
Emma was very confused by the sights, sounds and smells.
Our trip home (I was with Fi, lending navigational aid) was uneventfully via the motorway.
While the car hire and the driving were both very successful, I was not so lucky in the kitchen. My blender died. Just as I was starting to make soup again. It was devastating. I had to use my stick which is not as good.
But, all in all, it was a good day (the temperature started off at -2°) and I discovered this marvellous old building just next door to the car hire place.
I think it looks like something out of the American Midwest.
