Show & Tell: Dream Days & Favourite Places

Erica is still in charge of Show & Tell and her choices for week 2 and 3 of March is - as you can see in one of the right-hand columns - my dream day and my favourite place. I will do both in one go - I'm that efficient! :) By the way, as Petra writes, the Swedish term for "favourite place" is much better; smultronställe, which literally means "place of wild strawberries", but since that doesn't make sense in English I will have to make do with "favourite place" or "favourite haunt". Maybe "picket fences place" would be a good translation? The Swedish word has a sense of pittoresque to it but that goes missing in the English language otherwise.

There are so many "dream days". For example there are days that I dream about, that I hope will happen one day, mainly my wedding day (and I'm not a bridezilla who has dreamt about the actual wedding and everything around it; I just want to be forever joined with the person I love) and the day my first child will be born (I hope to have more than one so I hope it will be more than one such day; of course, actually giving birth may not be something you dream about but you what I mean). There are also "dream days" that I have already experienced, or experienced variants of, for example a wonderful day with friends at a spa or a especially happy day with Peter, even if we didn't do anything in particular except for enjoying each other's company. Then there are also the more material, such as hoping to win the lottery one day or the very big view, such as experiencing a day when all war and suffering in the world has ended.

For my show part of the post I thought I'd show you some pictures from our week in the Canary islands. The photos span more than one day but they illustrate contents that make up one type of dream day.

Our hotel with several pools to choose from (though not all of them heated) and close proximity to the ocean.

A daily game of tennis - I hadn't played since school and then I only played once a year on sports day, but it was a lot of fun and Peter said I had talent!

We're not surfers but it's fun to watch them and the para sails were so colourful against the light blue ocean.

Fuerteventura's landscape is made up of mountains, including over 25 dead volcanoes, sand (including black sand and a small desert with sand from the Sahara) and little vegetation. This is the green side of the island.


The little town of Betancuria with its peaceful square...


...and a little restaurant in a 15th century house. The little "court yard" led to different rooms - kitchen, dining room, bedroom and bathroom - which were (except the bedroom) both the home of the innkeepers and the actual restaurant.


The small desert in the north of the island - the only desert I have been to (well, unless I have driven through desert in the US but that didn't feel like real desert).


Getting soaked by a wave can be quite fun as long as you know it's coming!


Lastly I also want to show a picture of what I see as my favourite place (smultronställe) at the moment, Peter's family's country house, where we have spent many dream days, most recently when Peter and I had two days there on our own just after Christmas.

A spring photo from last year.