2023 coming to an end
The leftovers from the Christmas dinner are all eaten and gone. The final days of 2023 have been a mixed bag of frost, sunshine, snow and rain. The sun creeps…
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28 December, 2023
Indian summer on Koster islands
Summer 2023 is drawing to a close. What began with a heatwave turned into the coldest, wettest summer for years. From the day we returned from the continent you can…
3 September, 2023
…and it kept raining
Wasting days doing nothing. Watching the weather change. Listening to the rain. Running outside to catch the sun. Face stuck to the screen scrolling through mindless crap waiting for the…
17 August, 2023
Summer roadtrip – day 7
Day 7 is a transport day. First stop is Regensburg and the Dachshund museum. The world's biggest collection of Dachshund stuff ...ever. We lunch on the Bishofshof am Dom and…
21 July, 2023
Epiphany
It's 2023. We spend the first weekend of the year at the summer house and get a dose of real winter, if only for a couple of days. It's a…
8 January, 2023
3rd Sunday of Advent
Not long now. Doesn't feel like a year has past since the last one. Christmas again in less than a fortnight. Bloody cold weekend. Snow and ice and several degrees…
11 December, 2022
First snow
After an unusually mild start to November winter suddenly struck hard with severe snowstorms and cold weather in many parts of southern Sweden. Stockholm and parts of Skåne where particularly…
21 November, 2022
Week 42…
…the dullest week of the year? When I came to Sweden, a long time ago now, I was introduced to the Swedish concept of counting the weeks. Summer vacation starts…
23 October, 2022
White weekend
Winter isn't over yet. Woke up to a cold, sunny morning at the summer house on Saturday, and 10 centimeters of snow. A stunning day and perfect for a stroll…
20 February, 2022
2022 begins
The lovely, white snow disappeared overnight. 2022 is here and everything is the same as it has always been, and at the same time it's completely different. Orust is as…
9 January, 2022
Last days of 2021
Another year with Covid draws to a close. After a quiet Christmas in town with the family, Anna, Cooper and I headed to the summer house on Orust for some…
30 December, 2021
First snow
Winter blew in over Göteborg in the last week of November. 30 centimeters of snow and sub-zero temperatures for another week at least. Will it stay until Christmas? Probably not.…
4 December, 2021
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