Myckleby Tractor Day 2016

Tractor Day at the Myckleby Parish and Historical Society (hembygdsförening) is probably the main event of the year on the inland side of the island of Orust. The second Saturday…

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Last week of vacation

This years summer vacation is coming to an end. The week has been cold and wet and extremely windy. Last night the clouds disappeared and the Milky Way was clearly visible…

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Last week of vacation
Our cottage under the Milky Way

Looking for elks and elves

If there is one certain thing about Swedish summer it's that it's completely unpredictable. Sunshine and blue skies one moment; wind, rain and heavy dark skies the next. This year's…

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Evening at “nabbarna”

"Nabbarna" is the cliff we go swimming off when on Orust. There has not been a lot of that this summer since it's been either windy, cold or raining, or…

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Evening at “nabbarna”
Preparing to fish from nabbarna.

Summer road trip, day two

We had a room with lots of single beds to ourselves. Breakfast was had in the garden next to the pig farm and the wheat fields. Luckily the wind carried…

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Summer road trip, day two
View over lake Åmänningen from the ferry jetty, Ängelsberg, Västmanland

Summer road trip, day one

Sweden is fantastic. It's also very long. 1572 kilometers long, from Smygehuk in the south to Treriksröset in the north. Most of Sweden's population lives in the southern third of…

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Summer road trip, day one
View over lake Vättern from road in Omberg nature reserve, Östergötland

Our garden…

Gardening has never really been our thing. Things grew here when we moved in, some things have withered and died, other things have thrived. Our dogs have dug the garden…

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Max Patch Mountain

Max Patch is a bald mountain top in the Appalachians close to the border between North Carolina and Tennessee not far from Asheville. After being mesmorised by a picture on social…

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