For the past 2 weeks we’ve had my sister Ida staying with us as she’s been doing an internship for school at a nearby stable and yesterday morning it was time for her to head back home. After dropping Ida off at the airport we figured we’d go for a drive and have a look around, and as the airport is halfway to Uppsala we decided we’d make a roadtrip out of it.
So, off we went. First stop: A nearby grocery store to stock up on supplies (lunch and snacks) for the drive. For those of you who have followed this page over the last couple of years, you know we are avid ‘carstauranters’. In other words, we are fans of carstaurantism; which refers to the convenience of either eating takeaway in a car or preparing your own food in the backseat of a car. And no, it’s not trashy ‘to carstaurant’ if you do it in style! ;) One of my fondest carstaurant memories was during our roadtrip through the UK with Grandma Michelle when we parked outside a local chippy just north of Blackpool and chowed away on our purchased goods. I believe this was also the time when the word ‘carstaurant’ was coined.
Anyway; enough ranting and raving about the carstaurant! …but seriously, try it!
I realized when we were on our way to Uppsala that I have family in the outskirts of Uppsala, out in Farmville really, so we decided to go check it out. My Grandma’s sister and her husband used to own a farm and acres and acres of surrounding land.
When I was a kid we used to go there every now and again when we were down in Stockholm in the summers. I remember (or so I thought) the huge mansion house vividly, the adjacent huge garage for the tractors and combines. It’s funny how everything seems so much bigger when you are younger and smaller and how that HUGE mansion house in fact wasn’t HUGE, just big. That never ending, massive garage was also just big and not huge. Either way; it was really nice to revisit the farm and it definitely brought back memories!
After that blast from the past we headed in to Uppsala city centre for a stroll and after walking through the quaint cobblestone streets in the old town we ended up at Uppsala Domkyrka, a massive and very old church. Inside they were playing live music and we decided to check it out. Really nice church and Ethan had a blast running up and down the aisles!
All in all a great family day out and Uppsala is definitely worth another visit!
The carstaurant is open for business. Please wait to be seated!
The HUGE mansion house (at least it was when I was 7 years old)
Uppsala Domkyrka - the guys in front did a Saturday live music gig. When we walked in they played 'The Man Comes Around' by Johnny Cash. Pretty cool.
A pulpit
Just add Holy Water
Creepy angel kids of death
"The upside down tree" with candles
A real viking runestone!
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