Lapland

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D+11 continued. Having checked in at the Queen Victoria's Hotel and Health Resort we started to understand what it was. We'd booked it randomly a few days earlier, with a vague idea that they had a nice garden with old apple trees, and that the place had some history. Since Eva's into gardens we thought it was worth a try. It turned to be a gem, built in the 1850s as a royal residence. In the 1920's Queen Victoria agreed to turn the estate into a health resort for women. It has since then been run by a royal foundation for which the King Carl XVI Gustav appoints the board. Most is unchanged, but today also male guests are welcome.



The garden is vast, beautiful and contains rare mulberry and apple trees. You'd think that with a framing like that it would expensive but it really wasn't. The room was charming, the food was great and the staff were friendly, sincere and helpful. We were lucky to spend the night when a local band played followed by a quiz. We're not really royalists, or against for that matter, but we found this to be a really idyllic place.




Our room had a tiled stove, and normally we'd lit it right away, but it was still hot so we instead opened all windows, ignored the mosquitos (not really a problem anyway, at least not compared to Lapland) and thoroughly enjoyed the last evening and breakfast of the trip.