Johan och Sandras blogg!

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http://strandsjo.blogspot.com/

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We finally reached Australia after 10 months of travelling troughout Asia. I´ts been a fantastic trip were we have seen beatiful places, met wonderful people and learned many new things.

I´ts also time to say goodbye to byggareblogg and say hello to our new blog: Strandsjös. A new life, a new blog!

Follow our everyday life in Perth, Australia, at this new adress:

http://strandsjo.blogspot.com/

Mycket nöje!
Johan och Sandra

Gili Air, a paradise island...

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We stayed in Sunrise, by the beach in an etage bungalow.

Sunset by the other side of the island.

Chilling out in the afternoon...

Lunch at the beach, this time we will have pineapple and coconut.

These two sunbeds have our names all written over them!

We like...

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The diving around Gilli is great!! Big turtles, mantas, sharks and squid among lots of fishes and corals in crystal clear water and white sandy beaches.

No motordriven vechicels on the island means horsecarts have to do the job of moving the scuba tanks around.

Paradise!!!

Serve Bintang cold, ice cold!!

Our last day we spent at the bigger island, Gili Trawangan.

Turtle nursery, here baby turtles are brought up to be realeased in the ocean later.

Back to Kuta for a nice sunset and a romantic dinner.

Leaving Bali for Lombok, taking bus and slow boat to get to Senggigi

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Many nice beaches on this vulcanic island.

We had dinner in the sunset at the tables on the beach you see on the picture.

The gardener at our homestay picked local fruit from the trees and gave us for breakfast in the mornings.

Imse vimse spindel...Spiders big as apples, not so plesant...

After the wedding we left Kuta beach and headed north of Bali to Ubud

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Our pool, over looking the rice fields at Green field, Ubud.

Hindu offering to keep the evil spirits away.

Baby bananas outside our bungalow.

A local treat: Suckling pig, so tender the meat falls of the bones! Meeting up for lunch; Nick, Mounique, Glent, Karin, Louise, Fredrik and the Strandsjos.

Babi guling, thumbs up!!!

Green green green at the rice teracess!

A full day excursion with the Tigerts and Jensens.

Except beautiful rice fields and terraces we were soaked in hot volcanic, sulfur water in hot springs,

...Saw beautiful waterfalls (where we also took a dip:)

Had local food at overlooking the rice fields

And got to see our driver Gustu's favourite waterfall close to his home town (he told us young couples in love goes here on Saturdays ;)

One of the highlights of the trip was when we stopped at a coffee plantation and Mr Tigert bought a cup of expensive coffee (that's made after being pooed out of a strange looking animal!)

And of course we went to a nice spa in Ubud where we got herbal treatment, massage and bath, lovely!

After almost a week in Ubud we left Bali and went to Lombok, we stay here by the beach for two days and tomorrow we take the boat to Gili Air, a smaller island where diving and snorkeling suppose to be great in the clear water. We will update you with photos from Lombok and Gili when we get to Perth. Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Karin and Sean Cunningham's wedding in Bali!

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The wedding took place at Villa Shalimar, a beautiful and perfect place!

Here comes the bride! Led by her father Torsten and her little flower girl Isabella.

Soon you're husband and wife!

The Cunninghams!

Swedish and New Zealand mix of relatives came to celebrate the wedding.

We were happy too :) !

Meeting great friends after a long time!

It was great to meet Seans sister Hayley, her husband Stu and their daughter Arla again!

Best man; Nick and made of honour; Ingrid.

Seans little sister Amy red a beautiful poem at the cermony.

3 beautriful girls all the way from Malmo! Susanne, Jennie and Sandra. Take a look at the stubby holders for the beer!

BALI!

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Sanur beach

Right now we're at Sanur beach for 3 days. We head back to Legian and Kuta beach tomorrow for bachelor party and hens night :)

Bali Hyatt hotel has the best strip of sand here, so we're lurking our way in to their part of the beach :)

Mmm, there are many small and cosy places to have lunch here!

Balinese fishing boats, Pinnocchio inspired?

Kuta/Legian beach

Looong and wide beach

Surfers paradise! Perfect and huge waves for surfers, a longboard is perfect for beginners, and alot of fun!!!

Rice fields in the middle of Kuta town

We met up with Sandra and Fredrik that also came to Bali for the Cunningham wedding. A couple of miniutes with taxi and you're at Jimbalan beach that's famous for it's outdoor seafood restaurants on the beach and it's beautilful sunsets.

Last night in KL and time for sushi. Just grab what you like from the moving band and enjoy.

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White house hotel in Penang. Our home away from home. The owners take care of us as We're family!

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Look into the camera and smile everyone!

The show must go on untill we're deaf!!

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The cover of "the power of love" gave us unpleasant bowel movements :)

Reunited with our favorite waiter at Red Garden :-)

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When you order you get your drinks 5 sec later. And it's cheap too. One huge jug of fresh juice for 4 kr. We're vitamine boosted!

Penang national park!

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The national park got some nice beaches, were we relaxed all by our selves (except for some curious monkeys)

And a quite high conopy walk through the jungle

The well trained man to the far right it's actually Johan ;)

Penang! Our favourite food-island! The best Chicken tikka ever!!!

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We hit the jackpot! Ending up in paradise again: Perhentian island at the east coast of Malaysia

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Feels like honeymoon again, and we only got one week...

This place reminds us of the beach at Cayo Largo, Cuba where we celebrated our honeymoon :)

Coral bay, where we stayed at Senja Resort. The sand is so white you need shades :)

It's special when the water's so clear and the sand so white that you don't know what's beach and what's sea...You just place yourselves somewhere in the middle and lay there for a while thinking: "Is this place for real?" By the way, the water temperature is 32 degrees.

We walked over the cliffs to get to "Romantic beach"

Long Beach, where curious fishes swims around you.

Having lunch with Dee and Owa after one of our diving trips.

Overlooking Coral bay from the Jetty.

Finally! Cube solved!!!

Great weather means great sunsets too. Can you get other than romantic at a place like this?

The (not so) "wild life" at the island...

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We saw countless numbers of Monitor Lizards at the island, some small (about 1 m) and some big as crocodiles! They were everywhere, we even had one living under our bungalow...

Cuddly cats were also everywhere on the island...

The big hungry lizard under our bungalow was looking for food. The locals sometimes feed them with chicken so they won't eat their cats...

This cat was not so observant about what was lurking around in the bushes, having a siesta like us humans...

Our "house lizard", at this point full, fat and lazy...We're scared to think about what's in its stomach...

Snorkeling and diving around Perhentian island! The marine life is as paradisic as the island itself!

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Great trip, nice people, especially the girls in the background, Lisa and Anna from Austria, hi girls :)

Black tip sharks at Shark point!

Green shelled turtle at Turtle point!

Lunch at the fishermans village

Back in the water!

Sandra's like another fish in the water.

Shark food??!

Hi there little stingray!

We saw alot of nice corals too :)

Even the snorkeling right out from the beach was fantastic! Here we saw more sharks and a lot of colourful fishes.

We also did two dives while staying at Perhentian, at "Temple of the sea" and "T3". The diving was as good as the snorkeling and we saw Bamboo sharks, Hawkbill turtles, Puffer fish, stingrays, triggerfish, nudi branch and alot of other underwater critters.

Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur!

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We're back in town!

Did you know that Kuala Lumpur has it's own rain forest in the middle of the city?! The air is so much cleaner here than in Bejing!

Malaysians doing their shopping to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

Sky train

Impressive Islamic building

When it rains, it rains! But only for a short while though. Today we've had both rain and sunshine and about 30 degrees.

There's something about this towers... we're just drawn to them!

Sandra's favourite flower in Asia, they are everywhere and they smell a little bit like Jasmine.

The Indian quarters

We say good night from Kuala Lumpur. Tomorrow we're on a 9 hour bus ride to the Pehrentian islands on the east side. They only have generators for electricity some hours of the day, so no blogging over there. We'll just relax at the beach, doing som snorkelling and maybe diving. We'll be back in K.L the 23rd of Sept, then we're off to Bali!

Finally in China, Bejing!

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The forbidden city, 2nd time we're here. We also went to Tiananmen square and visited "pickled Mao", as orange and waxlike as last time we saw him :)

The parks here are really beautiful, this one was close to our hotel.

Finally some good food!!! After living on dry stuff at the train we tried many Chinese specialities, here's vegan food, the soya meat was great!

Sizzler for Johan and bamboo shots with chili for Sandra.

Chicken Kung pao, broccoli and mushrooms, mmm!

I bow for the Chinese cousine!

We also tried some of the street food, Sandras favourite is grilled corn.

We had to try the Speciality: Peking duck! Not too bad...

But ok, I admit that some Western treats were taken in too!

Sandra, there's no need to be embarrassed ( all blushing too!), it's just a Chinese party dude wanting to take a picture with you. Sag hej till publiken!

The metro is a great way to transport yourself in Bejing, when it's not rush hour!

Wanfujing street! This is one of the biggest shopping/tourist streets over here.

"Har fanns en gang ett hotell, med rosa galgar och tranga avloppsror... Var ar det nu? Svara mig du...Jag bara uundrar, var ar det nu?!

Meeting up with Backman! An Oxie fellow that took the step and moved from Malmo to Bejing. Cheers to that!

The Lama temple, one of the most famous buddhist temples in Bejing:

TIANJIN!

This fast train took us 20km in 30 minutes at a speed of 350 km/hour. The trains are exactly on time over here. Obviously this is not SJ...

Tianjin by night, a buzzling city with 10 milj citizens!

Some Chinese culture

This may look strange...But it's just Johan eating candy from another womans chest!!! Just kidding! Johan was a gentleman and helped a bride to be to get rid of her necklace of candy at her hen's night, in this Cuban dance club. Here we had one of the funniest nights in China! We danced Salsa all night long and watched the Latin girls dance Samba...

Transmongolian railway: Moscow, Russia - Ulan Bator, Mongolia - China, Bejing 7865 km!

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Train number 4, Jaroslawski train station, 21.40 Moscow time.

Waggon number seven was our home for a week:

Our cabin: some local delecacies, Knackebrod and oatmeal porridge.

Our home for seven days, several books, magazines and in this case, trying to solve Rubics cube.

This toilet we shared with 32 other passengers, freezing cold and everything that went in the bowl went out on the tracks... No shower or hot water of course. Obviously we were not riding first class.

The Samovar where we had hot water for our noodles, tea, porridge and soups.

Our cabin attendent, that we tried to bribe with Snickers and Swedish candy, we think he liked us, (even though he would't take the snack) because we got our "kupe" all to ourselves duing the whole train ride!

There was a stop at stations every third hour or so, time to stretch our legs and buy some local food and drinks.

Stop at NOVOSIBIRSK, got some drinks and invited our fellow travellers to a party in our Cabin.

Cheers Crazy Joe! Aussies sure know how to party!

The Swedish boys from Stockholm brought cozy partylights and crazy drinking games!

"Helan gar" eller var det "Livin on a prayer i Kanon, hur som, vackert flerstammigt var det, fick vi reda pa av vara kupe' grannar dagen efter!

Where is a Pizza place? the day after a party like that you want something else than knackebrod...

13 degrees in our Cabin, passing through Siberia (forgot to close the window last night) Brrr....

Me and Joe cleaning our windows, a must since watching the landscape is what we do all day!
Dagens citat: " Ett skitigt fonster pa Transibiriska jarnvagen ar som att titta pa en svartvit tjocktv fran 70-talet".

Time to push up the window so we don't freeze to death...The only problem is that my muscles are gone after one week of doing nothing. Had to ask our cabin attendent for help...And give him another Snickers ;)

Our little Russian Mascot that visited us at least five times a day, speaking baby-Russian and wanting to play.

Den ryska tundran

Baikal lake, one of the worlds biggest and deepest lakes.

We had one meal in the Russian restaurant during the whole train ride, this is why...

One of many stops in Russia

Thumbs up for this railway-experience!

Having a nice time in the sun with Esther and Jordi from Barcelona.

The border between Russia and Mongolia.

Mongolia!

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Ger Huts, Ulan bator

WE call them cows, Mongolians call this meat!

Steaming hot during the day, freezing cold at night! The Gobi desert

The reastaurant waggon changes in every country, the Mongolian had the most beautiful interior. Sandra ordered vegetarian, a big NO NO in Mongolia she got 1 1/2 potato and one egg instead of a huge mutton (old sheep) steak! Mmmeatlovers paradise!!!

Carl and Anna (in the back: "Spanaren") getting tired of noodels and looking for some sandwiches, all they got were some dry crackers...

Boggie change... a 4 hours wait just because Russian raliwaysystem is different from the rest of the world. We were stuck in the air while the change was made. Might we add that toilets are closed at every stop and station, but the beer sales are not...Add Johans ladyblatter to this and you have an unpleasant scenario...

Entering China, last part of the Transibiran railway before we arrive in Bejing!

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The Chinese Reasaurant wasn't so great...But soon we are in Bejing and get to eat real food!

From Moscow with love!

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St Basil, by night and day!

Craving for "KEFIR" anyone??! Amazing building!

The Red square!

Some Russian Delicacies!!!

Russians can get their "Pivo" and sausages in small kiosks everywhere

I'm in Babuskha heaven!

We heard that fall is coming to Sweden, what about a nice russian fur-hat to warm your scalp?

Sunset view from our hotel room in Moscow

Ni hao from Beijing!!

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We had a fantastic train ride from Moscow to Beijing and right now we're enjoying ourselves with good chinese food and shopping! Pictures will be posted when we arrive in KL, Malaysia since our blog is blocked here in China (Why???).

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Hugs from Johan Sandra

From Russia with love!

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"Meat" my new BBQ- master-friend from Kazakstan!

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Moscow here we come!

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Good bye party at the worlds biggest "Kräftskiva"! We will miss all of you, our great friends!

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See you in Bali or somewhere else in Asia, or Australia next time!

Mintu!

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Snaps!

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Say: Kräftskiva!

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Good food, great friends, good weather, good music and a great place to have a party!

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Långbord!

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Baby Bean is growing so fast!

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Hungry little Alma!

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You need to be prepared with this kind of outfit to blend in!

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Slurp, slurp! Crazy crawfish lovers!

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Mmm, paj o kräftor! Let's get the party started!

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The crawfish claws are great!

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Danish friends adapting Swedish traditions :-)

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Dancing in the dark

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Friendly photo!

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Birthday drink at Hilton

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Happy birthday little sister!

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Test av hållbarheten inför morgondagens kräftslag! :-)

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Our last dinner at the summerhouse and the end of 1 of the best Swedish summers in "mannaminne"

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See you next time in Australia, Forsvalls!

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Congratulations on your birthday sis!

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We were wrong, the Swedish summer is obviously not over yet!

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Nice shot Linnea!

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Jag har tursamt kommit över ett antal av denna skivan. Någon som vill köpa? Först till kvarn...

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Det är tidigt 2000-tal, Strandsjös har precis avslutat ännu en guldkantad svamprunda...

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Härligt, härligt! Vilken fröjd för ögat. Den handflätade näverkorgen är fylld till bristningsgränsen med flugsvamp, riskor, tickor, fjällskivling, kantareller och champinjoner ;-)

Invited to a Good bye party at the relatives (and the Swedish summer) in their summer house

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On top of the fall!

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Walking 10k at the northern of Brösarps hills, beautiful view!

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Det blir egenplockade Kantareller i pajen till kräftorna på fredag!

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My big little brother!

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Ute på djupt vatten...Tigerts balsamvinägersås, -Made from scratch!

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Sandras kopia fick helt klart godkänt. Får vi smaka originalet i Oktober?

Family dinner in Olseröd

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Mooore haaallooon!!!

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Strandsjös on raspberry hunt, again!

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BBQ, Bed and Breakfast at Johan n Annicas summer house in Linderöd. Having a great time, as always!

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Having mother-in-law over for a couple of days visiting us in the summer house

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Smygpremiär på kräftor, var ju tvugna att provsmaka inför d 20e :-)

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Blev jagad av en jvla hundracka på löprundan idag...

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Snälla hundägare, ha era hundar i snor nästa gång...eller ska man tyda skylten som en varningsskylt för snarkande hundar?!

Addicted to hallon! :)

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Hallon e inte bara nyttigt det håller kroppen i trim och man får en fin vattnig jungfrulig hallonbyst :)

Honey, have you seen my legs down there somewhere? Looks like I lost them on the way up!

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Handy-wife painting our little cottage so it will be in good shape until we visit Sweden next time!

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Mom n honey on a rasberry hunt!

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Mmm! There's gonna be a rasberry party in the summer house!

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Back in the summer house, enjoying the last 2 weeks of our Swedish vacation :-)

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Taking a walk in the rain is a cheap pleasure ;-)

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Shake it like a polaroid picture! 10km on a bumpy forest path by the beach feels great!

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Two tumbs up for this (3rd) honeymoon weekend!

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Nice towers ;-)

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We spent the afternoon having a picnic by the beach in Denmark

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Say Cheese! Some of the best cheeses in the world are Danish, great smell too ;-)

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Timotej för dej!

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We had a great day in HELSINGÖR!

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This is all you get from us for now, notice the bubbly rosé, we had the same bottle at our wedding

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We're spending our last Euro Bonus points to pamper ourselves with a nice stay at Scandic Horisont

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It's great to be married!!! :)

Scoop over, this sunbed is big enough for both of us babe!

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Sunshine, romance and a nice place overlooking the ocean, what more do you need?

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We're start celebrating our 3rd anniversary with sushi in Helsingborg :-)

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Treated to lunch by Britt and Leif, so nice to see you again!

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Party in the summer house!!! One of our reasons going to Sweden; great friends at a favourite place!

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- ANDRA SIDAN ÄR NI KLARA?!

- Jajamensan fattas bara! Låt den traditionella årliga stugfesten börja!

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Elling going vegetarian?! This little charmer enjoyes beer and water melon!

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Excited Martin is looking forward to "faked boule"!!!

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Air gun! Nice shot, Ola!

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Poor Sandra did the preparations no one else wanted to do...The rest of us had alot of laughs ;-)

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Banging Giant nails in to this rock hard cob was no pic nic either, Charlotte in action!

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Knocking down cans with giant frisbees is harder than it looks like

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The notorious game "spitting jelly-frogs" were taken serious by all competitors!

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Glad you came, Line, Dean, Tias and Bitten! Have a safe flight back downunder, Dean!

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Distraction from the other competitors were allowed in this part of the game...

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...Johan and Johan had a hard time to concentrate :-)

The winners of the game!

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Livin on a prayer!

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Good night!

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Eating leftovers the day after

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