Äpplemarknaden

Visited the apple festival last weekend, in Kivik. Kivik is about 2 hrs drive hr from Karlskrona, in the southern most point of Sweden.

Kivik is a town known for its production of apples and apple products. People visit the festival, mainly to see the big mural.. which is entirely madeup of apples!

Think its Einstein? And this is the closeup of the mural, its 100% fresh apples!

Apple exhibitions / fairs

After the fair, we decided to look for the Ales Stenar , a pretty famous sight in the south of Sweden too...

It was a looooong walk... din expect to trek sooo far....

Finally see it in the distance...

TaDA!

Ale's Stones (Ales stenar in Swedish). Its made up of 59 stones, arranged in the shape of a Viking ship, believed to be a cremation grave long long time ago.

Cows can roam freely..

We also dropped by the IKEA at Älmhult. Its the first IKEA to be opened in Sweden (and probably in the world too lar).

The nearest IKEA to Karlskrona is 1hr away, and IKEA at Älmhult is >1.5hrs. Be thankful that there are 2 IKEAs in small Singapore!

Anyway, the IKEA here and back in Sg is exactly the same, in terms of layout, furniture blah.. look, the cafeteria looks familiar?

The IKEA cafe menu now is very ratatouille - ratatuoille pasta/ ratatouille with chicken... is it the same in Sg too?

Ratatouille is actually a french dish of tossed vegetables.. it was not that great..

But the movie was cute and funny! :)