Day 15 - Golf & Fish

At 2.32 in the morning we wake up to the sound of someone’s mobile ringing in our room. Being in half zombie mode at that time in the morning it does take some serious searching in our room to find where the phone is hiding. Despite considering myself a semi expert on mobile phones it takes me more than 10 minutes to figure out how to turn the thing of and whoever it who’s calling they are certainly persistent. 10 missed calls later and the phone being extremely close to being drowned in a glass of water the silence is finally back in the room and going to from half zombie to full blown zombie does not take long.

A couple of hours later and it’s time to get up. Sun is shining, birds are singing and the golf course is eagerly awaiting a VIP visitor from Australia. Me, Lennart and Lisa head off to the Troxhammar Golf course only a 5 minute drive from where we’re staying. The 18 hole course is too busy so we opt for the 12 hole course. A challenging course with water and sand all over the place and lots of trees where the ball no doubt will be lost.

After the first couple of holes all 3 of us seriously consider retiring to the bar and get drunk for the day. If there’s water we will find it and if there’s thick grass and scrub we’ll find it too. But slowly but surely things start to improve and we’re all managing to use just one ball per hole with Lennart as the shining beacon scoring a couple of pars. And icy cold shower doesn’t damp our now high spirits and after some 3 hours and a bit we have finished with hopes that the next time we play it can only get better.

Back at Lennart's and Lisa’s house again we’re pleased to see Salme is back again, full of energy as usual, and not wasting this opportunity me, Lennart and Salme decide to go for some fishing in Lennart’s boat.

We spend the afternoon trolling the lake of Mälaren and all of us get fish. 5 Pikes of different sizes get their day with the camera and released back to the lake to live and swim another day.

With rain clouds starting to build we decide to make it a day and head back to shore.

The 3 of us plus the Gustafsson family including boyfriends and girlfriends have dinner at a nice local restaurant and on the way home we stock up on much sought after Swedish sweets and lollies of which the Australian and Swedish Dentist Associations approve of 100% since it will to doubt raise their revenues for years to come.