It’s just hard to imagine an American town deserted on an American holiday. Heck, if anything, stores open earlier! But here in Växjö, all is quiet. We had breakfast late and then took a leisurely drive into the ‘Kingdom of Crystal’ which is the local brand name for the area around Växjö where you find all manner of glass works, factories, showrooms and stores. And lo and behold, some of them were open!

Really good, really artful, really clever glass items are really cheap here. Shipping on the other hand, not so much. We can’t wait until the items we bought show up at home.

The whole region is glass-crazy. Check out this item in the middle of a round-about:

We visited three stores and then had a nice lunch is a small restaurant where the proprietor hand-made our salad and sandwich. It was delicious. Overall, it was a relaxing day.

Tomorrow we leave Sweden for the last time and head back to Denmark. We accumulated currencies during the first part of the trip, now we are trying to use them up.