@brittarnhild
We are in Lillehammer now, after leaving our home in Trondheim this morning. Lillehammer holds some very good memories for us, our second son, Øystein was born here in 1984. 10 years later we came here to watch the winter Olympics.
It is less then 6 hours to drive here from Trondheim, so we had made plans for a couple of very nice stops along the road. We made the stops and had just about an hour left to our hotel when I got a message on my phone from my best friend. "We are in Ringebu now, visiting the most adorable rectory garden you can imagine. I wish you were here."
I hardly finished reading the message before I cried out to Terje. "Terje, stop the car, we passed Ringebu three minutes ago, now you need to turn the car and drive back, we are going to visit a garden!"
Lucky me, I have a husband who jumps when I say jump, so a few minutes later we found ourselves in the rectory garden, where our friends greeted us :-)
Pure serendipity.
No more.
No less.
The garden.
More than 150 different historical roses.
Perennials.
Herbs.
Fruit trees.
View.
Sun.
Bees.
And in the rectory, and also inside all the other different houses on the old farm, were exhibitions with art by a wide range of Norwegian artists.
We have had a very warm summer so far here in Norway, and most of then roses were already gone.
I still enjoyed it all, and when we left Terje said, "You know Britt Arnhild, we can always come back here another year, when all the roses are in full bloom.
