We’re taking a four-day weekend and spending it camping/hiking in Tiveden. This is going to be a really leisurely weekend so all we did today was pack, drive here, set up camp and then just lounge around all evening. Cook dinner on the Trangia stove, sit in the evening sun and read, listen to the birds sing.

There’s a good chance that the national park will be chock full of people tomorrow – it’s a long weekend in May after all – but at least this place isn’t crowded. We’re camping at the Tivedstorp STF hostel. They have a camping ground, and then they have “the other camping ground” which is at the very far end of everything and if I sit facing the right way then it really feels like we’re on our own out here. But with the benefit of a road, and an outhouse, and running water within a few hundred metres’ walk.

It’s just me and Eric and Adrian. Adrian loves camping and hiking. Ingrid sort of does, but not with us. Not any more. So she gets to stay at home on her own for an entire weekend for the first time.