Volvo!

Today was pick up the new Volvo XC60 day.  After breakfast at the hotel, we were again picked up by a Volvo driver and this time driven to the Volvo Factory Delivery Center in nearby Torslanda, home to the main Volvo factory.
After a very brief paperwork exchange (brief because we had already paid for the car in the USA), our new Volvo was "revealed" to us ala HGTV:
After being given a "tour" of the new car, we were treated to a Swedish meatball lunch and a tour of the Volvo factory:
After which, we're off on the independent portion of our Swedish trip, first spending Friday night in the picturesque Swedish west coast town of Fjallbacka, home of Camilla Lackberg, crime novelist, and former home of Ingrid Bergman:
Friday night dinner has to be fish & chips (and seafood casserole) at a harbor side table at Cafe Bryggan:
Our stop tonight is the Stora Hotellet, location of many events in Lackberg's latest novel:
The view from the balcony of our room:
And at sunset:
Now I need to read my owner's manual!

Comments

  1. UnknownSeptember 7, 2013 at 1:16 PM

    Pretty cool that the Volvo dealer served you wine with lunch! The hotels look really cool, very beautiful places you are seeing.

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  2. Bill BauerSeptember 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM

    Actually, that is Coca Cola or water. Sorry to disappoint you. In Sweden, there is no drinking and driving ... period, in any amount. So picking up and driving away in a new car after lunch with wine would be a bad choice. However, once done driving for the day ... that is another situation.

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