Saadet and Frederico arrived on Friday. It was a nice and sunny day with white clouds. I drove to Landvetter Airport to meet them at 11:00. THY arrived on time, we drove back to Ellös enjoying the green Swedish countryside. After checking in we had lunch at the hotel's restaurant. They both liked the food, especially Frederico being a Portuguese very much enjoyed the fish. After lunch, first; we visited Olive, strangely there were no one in the shipyard working on a Friday afternoon. I guess Swedish people are enjoying the long weekends during summer, taking the revenge of short daylight winter days which is quiet understandable. Saadet and Frederico both admired the beautiful appearance of Olive and its excellent craftsmanship.
After this short visit to the shipyard, first we went to Hallberg Rassy Parts shop and Saadet looked around and we made some quick decisions of what we are going to buy from the shop for Olive. Then we drove to a shopping complex nearby Uddevalla, and visited Ikea to buy some necessary items for the boat. Its a long and tedious process similar to furnishing a new house. We ended the day with a short walk in town and had a dinner at a local restaurant. Then we slept like a log until 9:00 next morning.
Saturday the 29th of June started with pouring rain. We decided to go to Gothenburg, I need to buy waterproof boots for Skagerak Sea and Biscay Bay crossing. After breakfast and doing some packing in the room we started off to Gothenburg. It was a wet and boring shopping day, but I found the boots in the Helly Hanson shop thanks to Saadet's wisdom. We run fast to escape pouring rain into a restaurant, by the time we finished our lunch rain had stopped and we could see the sun again. During lunch a good old friend of mine, Tor called and invited us for lunch on Sunday. They live not far away from Ellös, we'll be looking forward to be with them tomorrow.
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