This past Sunday (Sept 28) we drove across Skåne to Kivik to go to the apple market (sorry the link is in Swedish, couldn't find one in English. Just click on the picture and you can poke around the website.)
One of the things this market/festival is famous for is the giant picture created with apples. Every year there is a different design.
It is pretty impressive. It is enourmous. It is beautiful.
And the details!
The statistics for this year's picture:
For those of you who can't read swedish...The picture's size: 104 sq meters
Number of apples: about 35,000
Weight: about 3 tons
Number of nails: about 70,000 (The nails are used to hold the apples in place - the apples are placed in between the nails.)
Number of apple varieties: 9
Here we are in front of the apple picture. But the festival/market was more than just a giant picture made from apples... There were lots of craft booths and food booths. The kids got to try different types of apples and ciders and juices. There was bread and cheese and sausage also available for sale and sampling.
We bought some apples and sausage and fresh pressed apple juice. Oh, and freshly fried apple donuts. I mean really fresh. We watched them make them. And they were Oh So Good! So incredibly good, in fact, that we stood in line a second time and bought some more to take home and have for breakfast the next day!
We also ate lunch there. Kivik is right on the water. We ate lunch at a little fishing cafe. The kids had meatballs. Dave had the fried fish and I had shrimp and crayfish crepes. Yum!
This was our view while we were eating lunch.
It was a beautiful day, and we ate donuts! It just doesn't get much better than that.
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