It’s definitely all about the moment, to catch so called “Kodak photo moments”. I love those kind of photos. Do you have any to share with us? Please do!

©Lifecruiser Love Cat Photos

Other farm cats photo posts by Lifecruiser:

Travel Photo: Holiday Fat Cat
Farm Photo: Morning Cat
Cat in Box, Gotland
The Farms Wild Cats
Visiting Farm Friends In Norway
 

The thought was to rest and have coffee break after just a couple of hours driving. And how did that go?? Not so well because we couldn’t find any place open at night to buy that coffee… We had to stop and sleep in the morning instead, so yesterday night we were exhausted and only slept at our booked countryside B&B, getting fresh ecological eggs from their hens for breakfast in the morning.

Today when you read this, we’re on the next trip leg: from Rödby, Denmark through Germany to next stop in Westernieland, the Netherlands, which is approx. 500 km.

Those two first days are our longest in the car, mainly transport distances, no regular sightseeing other from very short moments. We have been here before. After this, the sightseeing starts…

Don’t forget to keep an eye on Lifecruiser Europe roadtrip 2012 Flickr Photos too, we will continue to upload our photos as soon as we got the time to do it – and working, fast enough wifi.

©Lifecruiser Love European Roadtrips

Earlier post about Lifecruiser Europe Trip 2012:
Europe 7500 km roadtrip start!
Europe Trip Preparations: Video Camera GoPro Hero 2
Europe Trip Preparations: Double Trip Packing
Europe Trip Preparations: Camera Gears
Europe Trip Preparations: New Notebook PC
Another meetup for the Europe road trip
Europe Trip Preparations: Champagne Coolbox Snacks
New car for the Europe trip
Europe Trip 2012 Summery
Europe Trip Accommodations
Mapped Europe Roadtrip Route 2012 by Lifecruiser
Routes and stays booked for our Europe trip 2012
Planning our Europe trip 2012
 

Even my iPhone photo uploads has not been without trouble – that’s how life is on an island I suppose… This one is from yesterday afternoon, as you can see we have really nice Swedish summer weather, even though it’s a bit chilly in the air yet. The real summer weather will arrive in July.

©Lifecruiser Love Farm Holidays
 

Julita existed already in the Viking era and was an medieval monastery that later became a state domain and manor owned by Swedish nobility. You can see that by it’s interiors and surrounded parks, with the architectural different green house and kitchen garden.

It was also the first Swedish Museum of Agriculture that started with gene banks in the seventies, in close collaboration with the Nordic Gene Bank NGB – and still is – for a lot of different plants, fruits and flowers. Their agricultural exhibits may interest garden enthusiasts, as well as their different markets and festivals.

Tours of the Julita Manor house is hold in the weekends in May/September and every day in June, July and August. There are also other different exhibitions, family activities and farm animals which will please the young ones.

There are simply beautiful decorated B&B rooms in the manor wings from the 17th century for around 12-1400 SEK/night and double room. There is also a newer hostel alternative in another building for around 600 SEK/night for a two-beds room.

If you want something different: ask if the more unusual Octagon House – an old distillery from around the 1800s down by the lake – is available.

For the Gourmet’s like myself, there is the Julita Skans Cafe and a well recommended restaurant, also mentioned in the White Guide: Julita Wärdshus, julitawardshus.se down at the lake shore, run by the silver awarded (Bocuse d’Or 2011 in Lyon) chef Tommy Myllymäki and Magnus Saleborn.

If you’re planning an unusual wedding, there is even a Skansen church where you have the unique opportunity to get married with your beloved one. In fact: if we weren’t already married, we would have jumped on this opportunity for sure!

There is other things to do in the area too, many beautiful walking paths or why not go horse back riding? There are around 400 kilometers riding tracks, have a look at www.ridleden.se.

Julita Gård is even offering a guest stable if you’re on the riding tracks, see the wonderful old stable building in the photo below.

If you’re planning to be there in May: don’t miss when the cows are put out to pasture at Julita, the pure joy of the cows are entertainment not only for children, but also for adults. Date and time use to be available at nordiskamuseet.se/julita at the start of May, the date for 2012 is the 6th of May.

Despite the dull weather when we were there in the beginning of March, we succeeded to get a few decent travel photos showing the interesting architecture. We’ll definitely go there again in the summer season when the place have flourished up.

Our reason for being curious of this special Mansion is that my grandparents once upon a time had a farm worker employed, that had been working as some kind of maintenance manager at Julita Gård, before he came to work for them.

Have a look at Lifecruiser Julita Gård photo slideshow here.

In the Google map below you can see were it is located and exactly how rural the area is.

Official info at: Nordiska Museets webpage about Julita.

How to get there: by car on road 214 or take the train to Katrineholm and then the bus to Julita: plan your trip to Julita by Swedish trip robot Resrobot.se.

©Lifecruiser Love Open Air Museums
 

However, some of them might not want to become friends with you – or was it the farm cats he/she was escaping from?

Whatever it was, the frog was in a hurry and had big trouble getting through the hole in under our door step. It was a little bit too fat you see… hi…hi…

Lifecruiser ♥ Fat farm animals
 

Whatever the reason are, he really knows how to relax and be the perfect holiday cat!

Lifecruiser ♥ Farm Cats
 

It’s when trying to rinse the fishes caught in the fishing net, that this foam is appearing. And it never stops foaming. It’s like it were detergent in a dishwasher machine. Horrible!

Lifecruiser ♥ Baltic Sea
 

LCHF stands for Low Carbohydrate High Fat. Our preferred diet – or call it life style – which we started in the beginning of 2010 and will keep for the rest of our lives.

It is that good, made such difference for our health and well being!

Lifecruiser ♥ Cookbooks
 

The fishing nets are very colorful in themselves, but also the painted garage door. Seems like he has tested some painting on it….

Lifecruiser ♥ Holiday Fishing

It was a very special color of the sunset that evening, don’t you think? I can’t even tell what color it is…

Lifecruiser ♥ Evening Holiday Sunlight