Summer road trip day 4
There is nothing quite like waking up and going out in the fresh, cool mountain air of northern Sweden in summer. The sun dipped down below the horizon for a…
There is nothing quite like waking up and going out in the fresh, cool mountain air of northern Sweden in summer. The sun dipped down below the horizon for a…
Hjortnäs to Kyrktåsjö is 550 km. Kyrktåsjö has a hostel by a lake and we had booked a room for two and a dog. It's another 300 kms to Tärnaby…
Strange summer, strange times. The Corona virus is raging and the world in lockdown, but Sweden going its own way. It's summer vacation time. If we exercise care and social…
This year's midsummer was the warmest for many years. None the less we didn't escape the obligatory rain. It came in the afternoon, as it usually does, when we sat…
Thursday is a public holiday and the start of a long weekend. These are strange times and it's hard to tell a long weekend from any other weekend when you…
Another weekend at the summer house on Orust. You can't escape the pandemic, it hangs over everything like the proverbial "wet blanket". Out here we can let ourselves be immersed…
Easter Saturday ended with pouring rain and howling winds. What is better for a good nights sleep then the sound of rain on a tin roof? Especially after a day…
Woke to a beautiful, sunny morning on the west coast of Sweden in the middle of probably the biggest global crisis in modern times. I am grateful that this is…
The pandemic continues. It's anybody's guess where it will end. They say it is just the beginning, the worst is yet to come. It's on the news every hour, it's…
A Monday like any other? It's all so deceptively ordinary until you go near a grocery store and see people coming out with bales of toilet paper and bags of…
Countries close their borders, people hoard toilet paper, the world is in a tail spin. It's like watching a bad movie on TV on a Friday night and thinking "only…
A day that only comes once every fourth years: the 29th of February, and a winter that never was. Cooper's first. Was hoping he would get to experience some new,…