A happy place

I’ve been waiting for this for a while! Gothenburg’s Maritime Museum and Aquarium has been closed for a few years for renovations and now it has opened again. This is one of my favourite museums and somewhere I like to go when I need to collect my thoughts. Here you can see various boat models

A monastery in rural France

I am currently in France to visit family and today we were in one of the most beautiful parts of the country: Auvergne. We were there to visit my dear grandfather’s grave and on the way back, we stopped by a well-known monastery in the region: the Notre-Dame-de-l’Hermitage nunnery and sanctuary. Here are some photos:

Majesty

The Mountain Lake

Various animal tracks:

The snowy city is full of life

It has been snowing like crazy in the last couple days and I love it. I might be a bit irritated over the public transportation never running on time if I had to work. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I’m not currently working. I’ve taken the opportunity to go on long walks

Bugs and bones

Today I went with members of my family to pick chanterelles in the forest. We only found a few but what we did find plenty of was animal bones. The area is one heavily frequented by hunters, so this wasn’t much of a surprise. It’s been way too long since I was in nature. Probably

My top 5 favourite things about Prague

Not much happening today. Just taking short walks in the city, buying the last souvenirs to gift family and getting some rest in preparation for the journey home tomorrow. I really loved being here but I’m also looking forward to returning to my own city and my own bed. As a last post on this

Making shaving less wasteful

Most razors sold in stores nowadays are either single use och have single use heads that are usually not recyclable. For a long time, I was searching for a less wasteful alternative and I came across some options. The first and oldest no-waste razor is of course the straight razor or razor knife. But you

A wild strawberry place

In Sweden, we call favourite places smultronställen (wild strawberry places). I think I’ve found a new smultronställe by this little pond in the park. Spent some time writing here this morning. Now, time to go have lunch with a friend.

Too hot to think

Today was a very hot day at 27 C°. When the weather is like this, I find it hard to think so my writing goal for the day was quite humble: write a short plot plan for the rest of the novel. Which I did, sitting by the shore of the Surtesjön in the Vättlefjäll