Nothing says summer like Swedish strawberries.
Swedish strawberries are the most delicious thing there ever is and during the brief four week period in June and July that they are ripe you can eat them on the daily and still not get fed up.
What is even more amazing is the fact that you can head out to massive strawberry fields and pick your own berries whilst eating as many strawberries as you possibly can, fresh off the fields.
My parents did this a lot with us when we were little and school was out for summer, so whilst being home with my nieces for their school break it seemed like the thing to do.
Once out on the farm my nieces soon lost interest in the strawberry picking and went to check out the new lambs instead. And agreed, they were really cute lambs. It may be that strawberry picking was one of those childhood outings that adults found really lovely but as a kid you found them really rather boring. But nevertheless, those we remember as very picturesque. Now that I'm semi grown up, I'm loving it as much as my parents probably did and therefore felt the need to build false childhood memories for my nieces as well.
An hour of picking resulted in 2.5 kilograms of beautiful, bright red, sweet strawberries in our baskets and probably abut as much eaten in the same period of time.
If I had to survive on Swedish strawberries only for the rest of my life - I think I could be OK with that.
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| Smallest niece before finding the lambs. |
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| Biggest niece at full speed strawberry picking. |
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| The harvest! |
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