gabriele kubo

HANA-AMI & Gabriele Kubo were planning a tour this summer to Sweden. We visited Castle Gunnebo and its gardens, we  visited Wij Gardens in Ockelbo, where the Crown Princess Victoria did marry in June, we had a grass art lesson in the forests around Gothenburg, experienced Sphagnum moss forests with their amazing beauty and their pure waters and air, slept in tree houses and moss eremitages, bound garlands and visited an Scandinavian interior trade fair.

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TOUR PLAN 2010

7.8. arrival at Gothenburg airport

        stay at Hotel Stenjoehill Herrgard, Moelndal

8.8. Grass Art lesson by Ms. Berglund at the Forest House

        Sphagnum watching in the forest

         stay at Hotel Stenjoehill Herrgard, Moelndal

9.8. visit Castle Gunnebo, drive to the ocean side Tjoern

        visit Akvarellmuseet in Skarhamn

          stay at Hotel Noesundgarden, Noesund

10.8. drive to Oedeshoeg, visit Sphagnum forests

          stay at Urnatur Eremitage

11.8. one day at Urnatur, free time , swimming, nature     

         watching, visiting Ulrika‘s design cafe, visiting a

          weaving artist‘s studio, visiting a private garden,

          stay at Urnatur Eremitage

12.8. drive to Stockholm

          free time, visiting Gudrun Sjoeden fashion shop

           stay at a Stockholm hotel

13.8. drive  to Ockelbo Wij Garden

          visit the exhibition of flower designer Gunnar Kaj

          enjoy a garland lesson of Gunnar Kaj

          drive back to Stockholm, stay at a Stockholm hotel

14.8.  visit FORMEX, Scandinavian Interior trade fair

            or enjoy a free day, visiting for ex. Skansen

            stay at a hotel in Stockholm

15.8.   the tour finished



Regular members came from Japan with a Japanese tour guide, but this tour was also open to international guests who travelled up to Sweden by themselves. We were a group of 20 and were travelling the most convenient way with a tour conductor, me as a guide and a bus driver at our service day and night. Our tour got organised by a main Japanese travel agency, Kinki Nippon Tourists, which provided utmost service and safety.


It was wonderful to walk over Sphagnum moss carpets, diving into clearest lakes, strolling through medieval gardens, contemplating life while sitting at an open fire, experience the silence of a night in the forest without electricity, study new garden designs and try out traditional artistique floristry, feel the breeze at the ocean side and get a glimpse of Scandinavian design!


Take a look on my blog:

www.naturalinjapan.blogspot.com

to see actual pictures



This tour will be repeated in a similar way next summer, I would be glad to see you in Sweden 2011!!














       

SWEDISH GARDEN & MOSS TOUR in AUGUST 2010