Australia day 2
Warm and humid night aboard Stella but we all slept pretty well anyway. Warm and overcast this morning. Started the day with a fantastic breakfast with fresh mangoes, yogurt, toast…
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16 December, 2018
Australia day 1
Day 0 The alarm rang at half past 3 in the morning. Our fantastic neighbour Peter dropped us at Landvetter Airport for the first leg to Frankfurt. It was pitch…
15 December, 2018
First snow
The temperature dropped to more normal November levels this week. Drove to the summer house for some peace and quiet after a hectic week at work. A warm and crackling…
25 November, 2018
Remembrance Day
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month is when we remember those who died in the first and second world war, and all wars since. It…
11 November, 2018
November on Orust
First weekend in November. Halloween. Friday is cold and wet and the cloud cover so thick you can feel the weight of it. We escape to the summer house on…
4 November, 2018
Autumn colours in the Appalachians
Another work trip to Greensboro. Meetings, meetings and more meetings. Friday morning I check out of the Embassy Suites and, when the meetings end on Friday afternoon, I head west…
21 October, 2018
Indian Summer
It's mid-October and it's 20°C. Britt-sommar in Swedish. Something to do with the name-day Britt last Sunday. Indian Summer in English. Whatever you call it it was lovely. In Sannegården…
13 October, 2018
Autumn weekend
The leaves are turning. Summer is most definitively over for this year, and what a summer it was; hot, dry and every reason to worry, and every opportunity to enjoy. …
7 October, 2018
Hurricane Knud
A week after hurricane Florence hit North Carolina in the US, hurricane Knud rolled across Denmark and over the west coast of Sweden. For all the media hype it did…
22 September, 2018
The New River Valley
Ended this trip to Greensboro with a trip up to New River Valley in Virginia. The Volvo Trucks NA factory and the Volvo Trucks Customer Centre is located near Dublin.…
9 September, 2018
Passer Domesticus
Warm summer evenings means barbecue and dinner on the terrace. With no dog to clean up crumps and food scraps its up to the sparrows. Without fear they hop about…
26 August, 2018
Hot, dry summer continues
The unusual summer weather carried on regardless into August and the second half of our vacation. The mercury came close to hitting 35°C more than a couple of times. The…
19 August, 2018
