29 30 december 2009

The days seem to go by one like the other , walk the beach, breakfast, sun and swim by the pool, margaritas by the bar and a nice dinner. We found new place in town called Green Garden where we celebrated the 1 year anniversary of Ann and Tomas wedding. Today we have had a rainstorm for most of the day and we spent the morning sightseeing in town abd the afternoon shopping around the malls. 3 shirts for me and jewelry and grey Converse for Maria. It is supposed to break up tonigt so maybe there will be margaritas at the bar. A good thing to be in an American hotel-you can actually watch TV and understand it!

26 27 december

Not much really happening on the island these days, the weather is continues nice and warm and we spend our days by the poolside enhancing our suntan , watching the flock of pelicans practising their diving/fising technique and in the afternoons we do the occational shopping. last night we even ordered pizza delivery to change some of the routine,

Christmas Eve-Julafton

So again we celebrate christmas on a warm beach instead of the cold north. The morning being rainy we decided to go shopping in Charlotte Amelie and actually found som nice quarters in the old town. Apart from this the island is very worn down and the difference between the rich areas around the port and the rest of the island is huge. As this is an expensive island the mixture with high end hotels and really bad service is apalling. We all bought new watches(except Maria) and we had our, nowadays traditional, frozen Margurita at 3 a´clock. had a very nice meal consisting of Maki-Maki fish in cajun style and a very nice Pinot Griglio.

Second day on St Thomas

Started with rain and wind but turned out to be as nice as before. Started to walk the beach and having an early swim before breakfast. All to get into even better shape. Spent som time by the pool burning new areas of the body. After lunch we headead for the highest point of the island called Drakes point, presumably whwre he sat scanning the waters for pirates or hostile fleets.

Checked the port at Red Hook and found a new grocery store. Ended the outing in a gigantic traffic jam that seamed to cover half the island.

Firts day in the sun

Waking up after a 10 hour sleep was really good. Spent the morning by the poole getting too much sun. Went to the airport to rent a car, the last one avaible!. Got a Toyota RAW4 wich was ok. took a ride into Charlotte Amelie, that turned out to be really congested by traffic. There were 4 big cruiserships in the harbour, among them the new gigant one built in Finland and now the biggest on the seas. Ended the day with a very nice dinner at the sister hotel across.

First day on the hollidays

Started the winterhollidays with a flight to New York landing in a very very cold and snowy city late at night, We spent the first night at an airporthotell getting out of the clothes for 4 hours.

Nice fligt to St Thomas in the morning where we landed at 1 in the afternoon. 30 degrees warm and a bazing sun!!. No room ready so we spent the first hours in the sister hotell eating sallad and drinking bear.

Preparations for the winter hollidays

Dec 19 and we are having Christopher and sara her for a day before we leave for the carribian. traditional shrimpsandwich at the Gothia towers and a stroll around town. Ther are som e people locked into a glass cage on the Aveny collecting money to fight malaria in Africa. They have been locked up for 10 days and have got together close to 3 million swedish.

Bridges in Denmark

Spent a couple of days at an exhibition in Herning Denmark. This makes it neccesary to pass the three bridges connecting Sweden with Jylland. So her som photoes taken throught the windscreen

Maria på restaurang

Boatcruise Lysekil to Göteborg

Finally after trying since the beginning of spring the boat is at the port in Göteborg. It took a 5 hour drive with 3 petrolfilling to get here. The weather could have ben better but we had no rain and the wind kept faily calm. Stopped on Marstrand to have a lunch.

Some wievs from Capri

Spent a week in Sorrento in southern Italy, one of the nicest places we have visited and some really nice people at the hotel
We think we will return next year

This summer we mounted a huge shade on the hous in Lysekil. It took 6 persons to lift it up. Looks very nice being black together with the new colour scheme of the house; seamist and black

Found this man sitting in a big red armchair right in the middle of Go:teborg harbour. He looked very relaxed reading a book and enjoying the sunshine. How he got there and why, I do not know, but it is an interesting picture. Please also notice the new spelling,design of the citys name. Makes it usable on any keybord and to be used as profile for the city

Madonna was in town the day after the wedding and this night the rain poored down and the consert was really bad! We left long before the end of it. We all looked very much Klu Klux Klan in our white raincoats