Dalhalla, Tällberg, Sörbärke

We had just a wonderful trip to Dalarna. The weather was the best and that was something we couldn't be sure of after the heavily raining that had been going on the last week in Dalarna.

We arrived to Tällbergsgården at 1PM and we got this wonderful suite overlooking Lake Siljan and with a huge terrace which was our own. We also had a jaccuzzi in the room as well as rainshower. It was decorated absolutely fabolous and to our taste. The only thing was that it was so hot when we came back from Dalhalla at 1AM that we had to have the terracedoor opened for a while to cool it down.

Rhapsody in Rock was great. I thought this year that Robert Wells had a slightly worse group of artists because there weren't these huge wellknown ones but boy was I wrong.
The comic was so funny and really to the point. The orchestra was outstanding and the sound perfect. You could really hear the music and the different instruments as well as the singer. I have, after been to several festivals and concerts this summer, found that the sound is very hard to get right when you're out in the free but in Dalhalla it was perfect.
La Geylia Frazier is a wonderful artist and what voice she has. I don't understand why she isn't a worldartist that is how good she is. Nina Söderqvist was another positive artist. Her numberg from Spamalot was funny and with lots of theatre and good singing. I even thought Jacob Samuel from the Poodles sang well.
And then of course we had Glenn Hughes - he was in a class of his own and did some great numbers. All in all one of RiR best shows.

Next day we slept in for a while and then had breakfast (I even took a jaccuzzibath) before heading for Ludvika and then Sörbärke.

In Ludvika Hasse went down memory lane of course and we found a wonderful restaurant by the Lake Väsman called the Restaurant Piren. After a good lunch we continued to our friends country house by the lake in Sörbärke. It's actually the parents of one of the guitarists Eric Rivers.
They really had a dreamhouse there. A beautiful view over the lake, a big red house in two stores and so big that we had the downfloor complete with kitchen, bathroom and everything.
Upstairs it was also a complete flat.
A wonderful afternoon, a little nap followed by a visit to the very old shoeshop in the village. Then to the Folkpark - Pärlan - which brought back lots of memories for Hasse.
Pär and Brita had also been there when they were younger since they come from Fagersta which isn't that far away.
Later we had BBQ which the men handled with excellence. After a couple of glasses of wine and beer and after dinner we played crocket. Me and Pär in team and Hasse and Brita in the other. Pär and me won like we did on the firsta parentdinner (but then it was musicquiz). The next round we played with our spouses and Hasse and I lost but only with the last gates left.
Then their friends, Max and Lena, came over and we sat down in the garden with lots of cressets a fire and candles. Despite the mosqitos we had a great evening chatting away while sipping on some wine. At 1.15AM we called it a day and went to bed.
Next day we had breakfast together before we entered the trip home.

A wonderful minivacation was over. A big thanks to Pär and Brita who welcomed us with such generosity.