Sheer Happiness!
This hike we do every spring or summer – and it is always a treat. It takes about three, four hours, walking among old and strange trees planted here from all over the world … and it is close to the sea.
This place is home to numerous orchids (a meadow of them in the header) and Pasque flowers – just as beautiful when they are over!
The last flower blooming could also be the last hideaway for a little bug…
This hike is a perfect outing for schoolchildren – but, today we had to step away from the path for several hundreds of kids. Smiling and cheery ones though.
Blindworm or slowworm – I see them quite often. In fact this is a lizard, but legless. This guy was a beauty, about 30 cm long, slim and well fed.
Driving home on old roads to enjoy the flat and open views of the southern part of Skane. A good day we had. And the light lasts far into the night.
Leya 
How fabulous! Ŵild orchids, amazing contorted trees, carpets of wild flowers…what a wonderful day yo had!
I did! Thank you, Sue.
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I can see why you would want to do this hike regularly 🙂 The woodland paths are enticing and I enjoyed seeing the flowers and the slow worm.
I loved tagging along!
I loved that you did!
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Hiking happiness indeed!
Yes!!!
Definitely a place I’d love to walk. I love the tree (or two different trees?) in that first set.
Ah, that would be great. And there are two trees!
Beautiful!
Thank you, Anne! Spring!
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What a glorious spring hike over such orderly roads and paths 🙂 ! Not quite the Australian experience!!! Here you mostly have to ‘struggle’ thru’ bush! Had no idea that any kind of orchids grew as far north as you . . . and – those straight and open roads in Skane County of course stem fron WWII when they were built as emergency runways for planes – Sweden was famous for having them . . .
Yes – about the roads. And wild orchids are abundan t!!
Beautiful and peaceful walk. I’ve never seen a lizard without legs.
This is the only one I know of too.