Dalarna, at last!

So, I've always wanted to go to Dalarna - the province of Swedish horses, folk costumes and vallkulla - the herding women of Dalarna. And today, we finally got here. First, we left Örebro after taking one last picture of a duck -

Bruce took a "artistic" photo of us waiting for the train - 

Traveled through wooded rolling hills and past many lakes - 

                                      

The design of the fabric of the seats on the train were covered with women's names - two of which as names of characters from the Scandinavian themed fantasy novel I wrote. Meet Astrid and Lovisa! 

Now, we are in Falun in Dalarna. Falun had a huge copper mine for hundreds of years - hence the red paint that all the houses are painted. Here are some old miner's cottages. 

Visited some trolls - 

Went to the church - 

checked in at the hotel 

and Bruce took up dancing!