Friday My Town - In the Café

I thought I'd show you some more photos from inside the café in the Museum Park, which I took while sitting there waiting for the rain to stop the other day. They keep an old-fashioned homelike style indoors as well as outdoors. As for the menu, they chiefly serve home-baked cakes and waffles, with coffee or tea. (But I think you might also be able to get a sandwich on demand.) The café is only open on summer afternoons and sometimes on special occasions.

 A collage to remind you what the Outdoors looks like.

 

 What the café may lack in physical sitting comfort (be prepared for straight-backed wooden chairs and benches), it makes up for in authentic old-world and hand-made atmosphere. 

I had my cup of tea (and a shortbread cookie) at this table by the window, from where I could look out over the lawn and old church - and the weather situation...

On the opposite side of the room an equally charming table and window, overlooking a small kitchen garden at the back. Pelargoniums on the window sill is still a "Swedish summer classic"... They come in a variety of colours and shades from white to red, but these tall pale pink ones would be the kind that we call Mårbacka pelargoniums, named so because it is associated with the country estate Mårbacka which was the home of the famous Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940, and the first female author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909).

"Home, sweet home"

Wall tapestries with various proverbs and sayings were popular back in the olden days - and often connected to home and family happiness.

"Happy is the house in which love spreads its light."

(In Swedish it rhymes!)

"In every home, even if poor,
a happy mind can bring happiness indoors." 

(Hooray - with a bit of a twist I was able to make that one almost rhyme in English, too!)

 

 

Friday My Town: Summer Drinks

(My drink is Tea, whatever the Season!)

Summer Sunday

For Straight Out of the Camera Sunday… Please join me for a Swedish fika = our common word for a coffee or tea break, usually also including something (sweet) to eat.  Fika can be used as a verb as well as a noun, by the way. And we do use it frequently! At least this time I had sort of ‘earned’ it by quite a long walk to get to café in the open air museum park… Tea for me, please…! And, in this case, a piece of pastry that I suppose in the English-speaking world you’d call a macaroon. (If you ever get to Sweden, do not ask for makaron(er) with your fika though – or you might end up with a plate of macaroni pasta!)