Nimis

Nimis
Originally uploaded by Stéphane Chivet

This is a really interesting place in southern Sweden where my girlfriend and I visited on our Europe trip. She has some distant relatives there who we were visiting, and we went to explore on our last day before heading off to Berlin.

Be sure to click on the photo above to see the full-size version, along with the description the photographer has added to it.

It was getting late in the afternoon but still plenty of light in the long Scandinavian summer days, and I was just taking a few more photos (this isn't one of mine of course, this is from flickr) and while rockhopping managed to slip and sprain my ankle. Managed to hobble back to the top of the hill where we got a lift from some German tourists. Next day we had to head into the big city, Helsingborg to the hospital. We didn't get to Berlin. We did however hire a car and end up exploring the famous Swedish glassworks which we would have missed otherwise. One day we will go to Berlin since I owe her that!

After a few more weeks of getting around on crutches, with my other half towing my backpack on a trolley, I was recovered. I think the fact that she put up with me for that trip might have had something to do with me deciding we should get married a few years later.