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  • The 100 bucks of kitchen upgrade

    In my mother in laws vacation home up in the north of Sweden (yes, Dalarna where I have been blogging from these past weeks) nothing and I mean nothing has been done since the 70′. This could be a great thing or it could be plain ugly. In this case I must go for the latter. Now our goal is to redo part of the house and make it warmer…

  • Midsummer day

    So what happens at a Swedish midsummer? Well, we celebrate the summer, we put flowers in our hair. We eat sill (herring) and we dance around a big pole which is decorated with leaves and flowers. Very pretty! And a lot of the swedes get pissed out of their senses. Not so pretty. Beppe enjoys his first summer. Typical for midsummer is strange weather. Still june. Hot and cold. And…

  • Midsummer nights dream!

    Tomorrow it is midsummer here in Sweden. I am up north in Dalarna –  a truly beautiful part of Sweden. I can show more photo’s late of our midsummer celebration but par of it started as a celebration of the summer solstice. This morning I woke up of the sun flooding trough my window. I thought that maybe not all of you know that swedish summertime equals sun aorund the…