Karlstad

Find a spot beside Lake Vänern and have a picnic or a barbecue, such as Skutberget.

If you are interested in Swedish literature, you can visit Alsters herrgård (http://www.varmland.org/k...) and Mårbacka (http://www.marbacka.s.se/...), where two well-known Swedish authors Gustaf Fröding and Selma Lagerlöf used to live and where there are museums nowadays.

If you travel by car Rottneros Park is a beautiful park with manor house, gardens and lots of statues an hours drive away. Only open summertime. Rottneros Park web page (http://www.rottnerospark.se/rottneros/index/?sida=startsida)