Today is Ascension Day, and in Sweden it is a national holiday. J, like most Swede's has the day off. Businesses, if open at all, have Sunday, or holiday hours of operation. - (But of course, that didn't occur to us till we were part way through the morning.)

Our first course of action was to buy some fresh fresh fish. So - after sleeping in a little: off we went. We walked through a lovely city ("Stad") park. It runs along the canal and there was a windmill!  There was also a circus setting up, which was fun.

The fish market, though fun to see, was closed.  But we will be back.  I doubt you can get fish that is much fresher than what is available here.

While there, we started conversing with the man who was basically, a garbage man who sweeps items out of the canal.  It amused me to see that he had a bicycle in the canal.  But then he told me that they get around 60-70 per week.  People get drunk and think it is great sport to steal a bicycle and throw it into the water.  The one that you see pictured was, if I understood him correctly, only in the water ~ one week.

From there we walked to a nice little coffee (koffe) house where they roast their own beans. We enjoyed a nice buffet of juice, coffee, ham ( I love the ham in Europe - it is drier and more flavorful. Somewhat like prosciutto), ~liverwurst , cortison pickles and raw vegetables, sausage, cheese, yogurt, muesli, hard boiled eggs (the yolks were almost orange), jams, breads and pain au chocolate (croissants with chocolate inside). It was a lot to eat, but we did what we could.

By then, the rain had almost passed, and so off we went. Our plan was to go to the train station because we had heard that a Starbucks had recently opened. -- Not that we were looking for a beverage, but, up until that point we had not seen any decafe coffee and we wanted some (as it turned out, it is indeed in the grocery store. We needed to look for the term: "koffeinfritt").

Starbucks - though it has the same smell (!) and in many ways is similiar, is, of course, different here. Which is as it should be.

Then off to the grocery store…and home (so J. can nap.  After all, it is his day off...)