Ingvaldstorp: We are on our way to Ingvaldstorp to see where Amanda lived as a child. I photographed this map when we visited Vinon, and Amanda pointed out where her family's house was. I've never seen a map of an area where the houses are actually placed on the map like this. I created a faint gray circle around the houses, just above the word Ingvaldstorp. The middle black square was Amanda's family home which you will see in the next entry.

Here is a bit of information that Amanda is including about how the country is set up to create provinces, cities, towns, and villages: 

"The old way of dividing the country is by provinces. We still have the provinces, even though they don't have any political or economical significance. Närke is the name of my province. Then there are "läns," which are almost the same as the provinces. So, my län is Örebro Län. That means, of course, that the "capital" is Örebro, and our mayor lives in the castle etc. Then there are counties that are centered around the county state churches, which in our case is Lännäs Church, where I got married. (We got married at a state church because there was not enough room in our little Covenant church for all the people that came to the wedding of the century, but we had our ministers, (husband and wife pastors, doing it in Swedish and English respectively) not the priest, officiating. In most cases, the place where the state church is, is also a fairly good size town, but in our case, Odensbacken is our town and the church is out in the country. Hampetorp is probably also a town. But the rest of the places are just little villages, all part of Lännäs county. Ingvald is a man's first name, and torp is the word for cottage. In our specific case, Ingvald was the man who opened the village store."