At some stage during the last few months we decided to move to the country side. We cannot recall the exact time we decided or even all the reasons for making this decision but we had the idea of buying a house in Sweden for a long time. Finally this has happened and we will soon be responsible to maintain a whole house. Below are some pictures of the house.
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| View of house from across the river Tämnarån. |
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| Main entrance to house |
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| Smithy build in the 1700's |
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| Inside of Smithy with some origanal tools |
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| Young apple and plum trees in garden |
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| A taste of the inside - Kitchen |
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| A jordkällare - used to keep food and at constant low temperature throughout the year (quite old) |
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| Jordkällare inside -huge and high enough to stand upright |
The house has a ground based heat exchange system which I think is quite nice. I think we will appreciate this since we will be moving in December which is not the warmest time in Sweden.
The street name is Fors - which means "rapids". These you can find 50m upstream on the river Tämnarån where the bridge from the main road connects to our access road.
We are located 4km south from the center of the town called
Tierp. Tierp is 60km North of Uppsala and we can commute in under 40 minutes with the train (
Tierp advert here).
We will post more on our adventure at Fors and living in the countryside.
R&C
p.s. I passed the requirements to be allowed to drive in Sweden and at least we will now be able to get to our house - as soon as we obtain some vehicle.
