Sweden in the autumn Part II
The spurt of excited chatter by email among the friends about going to Sweden started to slow down, then it quit altogether.
Understandably, we want to nail down some specific fun things to do and fun places to visit.
Suggestions included stopover in Tokyo/London, plus take in other major happening cities in Europe. Activities included lots of girl-chat, shopping, eating, clubbing with a night of bellydance.
Mentally, I ticked off excessive girl-chat. I don't have that much to chat with this particular group. These people haven't stepped into a club in their home countries for decades. We should now club in foreign cities? And we would be in the wrong continent for bellydance dinner shows.
The host is ominously quiet about these suggestions, only offering that we spend 10 days at her home where she has lovingly nurtured a beautiful garden, and drive 500 kms to see Oslo. I am told it is the boringest slow drive imaginable because the speed limit is 80kph.
The most touted tourist activity for Sweden in the fall - mushroom picking - never came up! I suspect the planners never even knew that's the only thing to do in that country that time of the year!
Anyway, the email exchange has stopped for 3 weeks now. I can presume that the trip will not happen after all.
I don't think I will have missed anything much.
2 comments:
its so tough planning a trip. esp with a group of people. sometimes its best to go on one in the spur of the moment!
edpj - it is tough planning with a group. but in this case, i am not being particularly cooperative because of some of the people involved.
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