We're blaming Uncle John for this detour... I hadn't really thought about Ikea whilst planning this trip until he asked if we were going to visit the first Ikea... and then we realised that you actually could. Well lucky we did as it was a really interesting museum telling us a lot about social history in Sweden as well as the story of Ingvar Kamprad and how he started Ikea.

We obviously had to have meatballs for lunch before letting the children loose in the Creative Workshop and Textile Playground where they created some wonderful interior designs and Daniel and I even whipped up a sleeping bag for a teddy bear on a handy sewing machine using the free textile samples. Great fun - thanks Uncle John for the idea!