Pictures 2010

Northern Sweden

My first ever visit to northern Sweden took place this past weekend. Maria was working in Sollefteå for 2 weeks so I took a cheap flight to visit and have a closer look at the northern part of our country. An interesting weekend with something of a japan tour around the coastline. Passing over the Höga Kusten Bron(the High Coast Bridge) one of the longest hanging bridges in the world was nice and it was nice to see the really big rivers. not as dark and not as much forest as I had expected. But compared to the big city it is very deserted and  not much is open.  much is closing down and a lot of young people are moving south. a sad feeling lingers over the whole area

Bad day!

Got home from work and found my car brooken into. smashed side window and the car full of glass.
Nothing really valuable stolen but a real pain in the as with the time this will take to sort.
you would have thought the car was safe in a locked garage under your appartment.

The house in Murviel les Béziers

Finally some more pictures from the house

Buying house in France

Have spent the weekend looking for a house or an appartment in Languedoc in France. Have seen a lot of objects and the thoughts we had when we went here and the thoughts we had after the first day were quite different. The thoughts after the second day was again different from yesterday. We have now made a short list and have now made an offer on 2 townhouses in villages 20 min from the coast. Both in good shape and one is completely ready except for the couloring inside. The intention was to find a starting point but I think we ended up with places were we can actually see us living in the future. 14 golfcourses in the area and wine as far as you can see.

And the winter continues!

Every new day brings a new snowstorm and we have not had this much snow since 1995!!

Today we ventured out into the cold landscape and even though it looks nice it was freezing. Still some nice pictures

Vinter on the westcoast

Being scared that the snow might have added up un the roof we made a visist to take away some of it. A really beautiful winter sunday

Days in Denmark

ave spent some days with a collegue in Denmark and saw som efunny things I need to share.
Are the houses from som deserted part of old russia? no they are part of the new exclusive restauration of the southern harbour in Copenhagen. Do the 2 old Volvos come from a museum in Göteborg-no they were actually parked on the street outside of Carlsberg offices. Do people smoke in Denmark-of course they do.

Nice country, nice people and some good days, sorry for the photoes.

And the snow keeps falling

february the first and the snow keeps falling on and on. They have threatened us with winter all of this month as well. Tested the new camera for an evening shot and a nice wintershot at a McDonalds restaurant

Winter at Sannegårdshamnen

So the winter continues and today we had even more snow, one good thing though, a nice way to test the new IXUS. Some strange grey light over the harbour.

Spa weekend Stenungsbaden Yacht Club

Had an ivitation to spend a spa weekend at the Stenungsbaden Yacht Club and spent the whole afternoon having a massage, and floating around in the pool. the evening included dining and dancing in the restaurant. On the whole a very relaxing experience.

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6 jan 2010 another birthday and another champagne breakfast in sunny place. last day at St Thomas and we have had a really god time in the sun

3 jan 2010

The days go by by the pool and noy much happens, Living close to the airport gives you some nice photo opportunities and we cought one just taking off. Also made a visit to the huge Marriot hotel at the other side of the island. Like entering another world. Nice bar at the top and a great view of the big ship leaving the docks. We also bought the most expensive yogurts 4 dollars each!! The day ended with pizza on the beach.

Happy new 2010

So we spent another new year on a foreign shore, the intended beach dinner was cancelled because of a rainstorm. Spent it indors watching the celebrations in New York and drinking several bottles of sparkling. The weather is now back to the usual sunny version and we are getting discustingly sunburned. We have also found a new fenomenon in the harbours, HUGE yachts that are rented instead of owned, going rate is 500000 Dollars up to 1.000.000 Dollars PER WEEK!!! on top you have to pay for diesel and tips to the crew The biggest and most famous is KISMET which actually has a yachtspotting follower list. Tried the nabouring restaurant last night and found ourselves listening to an old coverband playing blues fro the 60 and 70.