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Living like in the 19th century:
The cottage "Äspebäcken" is a really pittoresque and charming cottage in the middle of Smålands dark forests! Quite lonely, some kilometers to the next neighbour, and situated lovely at a bench of the sandroad Vena - Bjärkhult. Yet distance to Astrid Lindgrens World is just 25 km. With a total area of 36 squaremeter (Blueprint) you have a living room with open fireplace, a small kitchen with fireplace as well and a little sleeping cabinet separeted by a drapery (doublebed with 1,95 m length). On the loft above the livingroom there are madrasses for 2 or 3 children (or adults). The children have to climb up on a ladder, there is a lot of adventure in this cottage! You have a traditional garden around with fruittrees and beautiful garden furniture. Authentic living on the countryside! The cottage has neither electricity nor running water - how does one manage daily life? You fetch your water from the creek outside (20m) or from a dwell, then you have a can with a water tap inside the house. You prepare your meals in the kitchen's fireplace (you can even make stone-oven baked pizza). In the living room's floor is a locker down to a small cellar for food and other stuff. But there is also a gas stove and a gas refrigerator at you disposal to make living easier! You clean your dishes on at small table outside of the cottage, the kitchen has an extra door opening to this place. You wash yourself in the creek, dwell or at the lake (600m). Or you use the tapwater from the can at home, but then you shouldn't waste to much water, otherwise you have to fetch new one! The toilet is a drytoilet in a little outhouse behind the cottage. Holidays without "unnecessary" modernity will give you an unforgettable experience. This will be most enjoyed by children! Every day works like washing the dishes, light the cottage, go to the toilet, to get warm inside etc will all be exciting adventures. By "living the simple way" you get closer to the meaning of life. Many normal tasks will trigger your creativity! You live more or less like during the 19th century. Without stress and in the middle of nature. With candle light and a sparkling fire in the fireplace. It's quiet and totallay dark a night, you can see millions of stars and the milky way leads your way for a walk in the night if you dare. Nevertheless, even if civilization may not be visible for quite a while, it is around the corner: ca 13 km to next village with supermarket and doctor, 2 km to next neighbour, and there may even pass some cars during the day on the little road in front of your house. If you climb up the hill opposite the house, you will have a fantastic view over the landscape over to the lake Ver (ca 400m, see bildgalleri). Closest bathing beaches with pier and other facilities are 3-5 km away, lake Ver and lake Nerbjärken. Price per week is 2 500:- SEK per week or 400:- SEK per day for bookings shorter than a week. Wood for the fireplace is included. You can rent bicycles at B&B Basebo (3 km away): 50:- a day, 25:- a day for children up to 12, free for children up to 4. Weekly fares: 250:- /125:- / free. You clean up the house before you leave or order cleaning in advance for 700:-SEK. If you should cancel a booking, you'll get back already paid money reduced by a bookingfee of 500 SEK. You need to have your own towels and bedsheets with you. You can buy a fishing license at a neighbour (3 km away). There you can also rent a boat (80:- SEK per day, 400:- SEK per week). Smoking in the house and pets are not allowed, sorry.
Some lines about the cottage's history: The cottage was built around 1859, the year Carl Olof Nordenberg married and got his first child. At the end of the 19th century a family of 8 (eight!) people were living in the cottage. The woman in the family was spinning wool and lin for people around and the man was working as a tinman. He had also a smithy on the other side of the road. But it burned down somewhere during the 20th century, nowadays you can only se the stoneground. The last inhabitant of the cottage was Ferdinand Nordenberg, he lived there until 1959. Then the cottage was not used until 1977, when the Swedish Television produced the film "Soldier with broken rifle" (after a novel of Wilhelm Moberg). Some years later, 1981, the cottage was renovated. It is owned by the Vena society for cultural preservation (Vena hembygdsföreningen).
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