Madrid in June

 Back to Madrid - so sweet, so sunny and hot. Brian took me to his favorite place for his favorite dish - it took some work with a helpful translator, but we got the Huevos Rotos and they were  amazing and it was a very happy way to celebrate a 3 year anniversary. 

Regent's Park in June

To the Norwegian Wood - Nordmarka

We headed out to the Norwegian Wood.

It is so nice. You can just take the city metro northward and suddenly you are in the woods.

The starting point for a nice hike is Frognerseteren. 

The area has a manor house that has a cafe and little ski cabins that have grassy roofs.

Well, this is a Norwegian Wood selfie.

This was a very nice, hot hike

with so many wildflowers

and very bright sun and tall, thin trees that smelled beautiful

Did I mention the wildflowers?

We hiked high above the trees

and we finally came upon the amazing Holmenkollen ski jump

And the beautiful Holmenkollen Chapel - a Lutheran Church

Holmenkollen Chapel

After hiking we headed back to the manor for lunch.

The yelp review that sold us: "Not very often do you get to sit in a building dating from 1891 while eating moose patties and a jelly donut." No, that is certainly not very often that this happens - so...

So, as you do... we had the patties and some salmon and some shrimp.

We also drank this.

And we ate the famous sweet apple cake.

"Mountain Dairy Farm of the Frogner Manor:

Then it was time to leave

but we were very happy.