Beyond the seas, beyond the fields, beyond the mists, there lies Avalon, the land where dreams may rest and kings shall find their peace.

Another Saturday, another drive up to Avalon. This time with a friend of mine in the van along with Merlin. Bit of a tight squeeze to be honest and not sure anyone enjoyed this trip. But we were productive.

As there was little I could do on the Thursday I took ownership, I naturally came back on the Saturday with a van full of tools and an extreme misunderstanding of how much land 15,000 sq meters actually is.

I kept telling myself ‘it will be late by the time the paperwork is done and everything will be dark’ ‘It’s daft to drive up after work to just stand on an empty plot of land just because you bought it’ but I also loaded Merlin into the van with me when I went to Vänersborg to do the final steps to owning Avalon.

Visiting the land after paying the deposit with my family.

After getting hold of the estate agent to find out more, he put me in contact with the owner and we agreed to meet up on the and and he’d show me around and give me a bit more information.

My second trip up to Avalon lead me to a great idea more confusion over what land was actually included in the sale and what was not. At this stage I was thinking the small grove at the top of the stone hill was not included, which was enough of a disappointment I almost didn’t continue.

For years, I’ve had a search on Sweden’s main property search tool, Hemnet, for land in Sweden, less than 5km from water, over 1000 sq meters and under 500,000 KR. Occasionally one or two has caught my fancy, but they’ve always been too far to get to, or not quite what I was looking for.