We decided to do a bit of sightseeing this morning, then spend the afternoon swimming. The promised trade-off kept the kids going and happy this morning. We started with Gamla Uppsala (once we disregarded ms tomtom's request to park up in someone's front yard - a worryingly frequent occurrence!) which is the Old Uppsala, or original town site. Most famous are the burial mounds from the Viking age. There are 3 large mounds, and 250 other burial sites. 2 of the 3 m...

After checking out from the hut, we headed over to the swimhall this morning as they have a heated indoor pool. The kids haven't been swimming in a while so we thought it would be nice. Unfortunately their definition of heated is not quite the same as mine - a bit chilly! Made me nostalgic for the good old virgin active pool. There was a big group of primary school children so we went in the diving pool which was, of course, a bit too deep to hold onto felix pro...