Escape the city and go to your own deserted island!  Try primitive and simple living! Explore the wilderness and the saved native forest and the lake! Enjoy silent days and nights, fish, pick mushrooms, berries and make your own food on the woodfired stove or on a bonfire. Make your own firewood and do bushcraft. Be alone in wilderness. (even if it is not so far away from the farm) It is set for an adventure!
You rent the whole islet and the big tipi. A rowing boat and life vests are included for the whole stay. The tipi is big and has several simple beds/matrasses, a gas cooker, and woodburning stove for heating and cooking. The tipi contains mostly all you need for an adventure and “surviving” in the wilderness.  The lake is drinking water, so you can drink the water. Just don’t do cleaning and getting drinking water from the same spot. 
The toilet is a fallen tree, with a compost toilet box behind. Just so you know! It is simple, but no problem to use. This is a wilderness-experience!
This is what you need to bring: waterproof shoes, warm clothes, gas, candles, camp light, matches, toilet paper, sleeping bags and food. If you do not have sleeping bags, you can rent one and an “inner sheet” from the farm. You can also rent fishing gear. As an extra thing to do, you can rent a toolbox containing tools for woodworking. If you are going to rent something, I need to know before you arrive. 
Before you leave the tipi, make shore that it is clean and tidy, and most important, all textiles must be hung up! This is semi-outside, so it can be moist sometimes, this is why. It is also very important that you close properly and lock it the same way as it was.
If you stay for more than 1 night, there will be a 20% discount for the following nights! The discount will automatically be added to the booking.


Gripen farm

Brilliant stay, remote location with your own private island. Lots of gear provided which was free to use. Lovely and caring staff around the farm area. Would definitely stay again. 

The cabin is situated in the middle of the pasture at a small sheep farm, surrounded by green meadows and native forest. A big lake, Storavatnet, which is perfect for rowing and canoeing is nearby.
Perfect for friends who want to do some exploring, hiking, fishing, crafting, writing, or just be at the farm.
In the cabin, you will find a small double bed, who you also use as a day bed.  There is a compost toilet and running cold water outside. The cottage has electricity. The cottage is provided with an electric cooking stove and an electric kettle. For heating, there is an electric heater. There is also a charger for electric cars outside the cottage.  This little cottage have cute, old wood fired cooking stove, who you also can use to heat the little house.
There is mostly no WIFI in the cottage, that depend a bit on the weather and the phone, but there is WIFI available outside, or up in the big barn.
It is a nice spot outside the cabin to have a bonfire. The first bag of firewood is on the farm. When you rent a cottage at Gripen, you have free access to a canoe for your whole stay. The big lake close by, about 5 minutes’ walk, is perfect for exploring  or fishing. The lake is a silent lake, so no motors are allowed. ;-) Gripen is a silent spot, it has very little sound pollution, and the same with light, so it gets very dark when it is dark. So here the stars shine bright.
There is sheep pasture around the cottage, so it is important that my guests respect the sheep and do not scare them. You can feed them and cuddle them, but before you do, talk to me, so I can assure that it is safe. No running, jumping, or loud voices near the sheep, it will only scare them away. That is the same for chickens, cats, and dogs. 
When you come to the house, the dogs will bark at first. They are farm dogs and want to tell me when people are entering the farm. It is two very small young dachshunds, and one Hungarian pumi, The Dachs’s are still young, and they are all very happy and enthusiastic. Despite the barking, they are very friendly dogs, and they just get so excited when somebody is coming.  It is also important to keep in mind that this is the countryside, and Gripen is a working farm with pastures and animals, surrounded by nature. I just say this to make you prepared for getting shit on your shoes! For the same reason, it is totally forbidden to walk inside the cabin with shoes. Use slippers or thick socks! I say this with a smile and a blinking eye! You will of course manage everything very well!
If you need extra mattress/bedding, let me know the day before you arrive. The same for some of the more special things, such as wine glasses. Just tell me what you need, and I will provide it for you. If something is missing, or if it is anything you lack or miss, just tell me, and I will do all I can to meet your wishes. :-)
If you stay for more than 1 night there will be a 20% discount for the following nights! The discount will automatically be added to the booking.


The cabin is situated in the middle of the pasture at a small sheep farm, surrounded by green meadows and native forest. A big lake, Storavatnet, which is perfect for rowing and canoeing is nearby.
Perfect for friends who want to do some exploring, hiking, fishing, crafting, writing, or just be at the farm.
In the cabin, you will find a small double bed and an extra mattress. There is a compost toilet and running cold water outside. The cottage has electricity. The cottage is provided with an electric cooking stove and an electric kettle. For heating, there is an electric heater. There is also a charger for electric cars outside the cottage.  
There is mostly no WIFI in the cottage, that depend a bit on the weather and the phone, but there is WIFI available outside, or up in the big barn.
It is a nice spot outside the cabin to have a bonfire. The first bag of firewood is on the farm. When you rent a cottage at Gripen, you have free access to a canoe for your whole stay. The big lake close by, about 5 minutes’ walk, is perfect for exploring  or fishing. The lake is a silent lake, so no motors are allowed. ;-) Gripen is a silent spot, it has very little sound pollution, and the same with light, so it gets very dark when it is dark. So here the stars shine bright.
There is sheep pasture around the cottage, so it is important that my guests respect the sheep and do not scare them. You can feed them and cuddle them, but before you do, talk to me, so I can assure that it is safe. No running, jumping, or loud voices near the sheep, it will only scare them away. That is the same for chickens, cats, and dogs. 
When you come to the house, the dogs will bark at first. They are farm dogs and want to tell me when people are entering the farm. It is two very small young dachshunds, and one Hungarian pumi, The Dachs’s are still young, and they are all very happy and enthusiastic. Despite the barking, they are very friendly dogs, and they just get so excited when somebody is coming.  It is also important to keep in mind that this is the countryside, and Gripen is a working farm with pastures and animals, surrounded by nature. I just say this to make you prepared for getting shit on your shoes! For the same reason, it is totally forbidden to walk inside the cabin with shoes. Use slippers or thick socks! I say this with a smile and a blinking eye! You will of course manage everything very well!
If you need extra mattress/bedding, let me know the day before you arrive. The same for some of the more special things, such as wine glasses. Just tell me what you need, and I will provide it for you. If something is missing, or if it is anything you lack or miss, just tell me, and I will do all I can to meet your wishes. :-)
If you stay for more than 1 night there will be a 20% discount for the following nights! The discount will automatically be added to the booking.


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