- SuitcasePacking -: TIME IS FROZEN AT FLICKORNA LUNDGREN

As last entry fortold, every summer, we try to go to our aunt in Skåne and live the countryside dream for a couple of days. This year, work was eating all our time and even with rescheduals and countless tries to get some extra free days, we still only manage to stay for 2 nights this summer.

During these days we did have time to go kayaking, ziplining and tobogan-ing, as well as celebrating our aunt's grandson's 2nd birthday - but we didn't have time to visit the best café in all of Sweden:

Flickorna Lundgren på Skäret.

So this entry brings you back to a sunny, wonderful afternoon last year in july, when we drove the minivan to Skäret, a tiny tiny village in southern Sweden, and enjoyed an nostalgic Astrid Lindgren-like afternoon with a piece of Princesstårta and freshly brewed coffee.

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Why this one is the best, in our opinion?

First, it takes you back almost a century in time. A wave of the life Astrid Lindgren wrote about in her beloved Swedish children books hits you with all of its fresh summer smells, all nostalgia from a time so long ago it is almost a fairytale in itself and you regress into the child you once were when you read these books or saw the movies, a kid who could spend hours laying in the grass and drink strawberry lemonade.

At Flickorna Lundgren, time is frozen. Pastries and soda in the luscious green grass is as much of an event as it was in our childhood. We went in to the early 20th century cottage and ordered Princesstårta, a Swedish speciality and a personal favorite, and chocolate cake and cream tart and coffee and then sat as we waited for the coffee to arrive, brought to the table.