Woke up early on Thursday morning to the sound of rain falling on the lake outside my window :) Helle & I spent the entire morning reading, chatting, pottering around, & drinking a LOT of tea! I finished "Love in the Time of Cholera" & have now started "Marching Powder", which is a really fascinating book about San Pedro prison in Bolivia (which, by the sounds of it, is really not somewhere you wanna end up unless you've got a LOT of money! We pr...

On Wednesday morning I said a quick goodbye to Jessie very early in the morning when she surfaced from bed briefly to see me off. I caught the bus into town, found my way to the train station, & picked up my electronic ticket with no dramas whatsoever. I was there with about 45 minutes to spare. Unfortunately my train was also running an hour late due to a breakdown somewhere along the track…so after waiting almost 2 hours (which could have been 2 more ho...

On my last day in Sweden I had a lovely sleep in while poor Jessie had to head off to work early in the morning, then I spent a few hours catching up on emails, booking trains etc. etc. Super fun organizational stuff! When I was all packed up & ready to leave the next morning I headed into the city where I would be meeting Jessie after work. I revisited the store (Lagerhaus) where we'd bought the biscuit tin for the Bojler's Anzac biscuits the week before &...

I woke up early on Sunday morning & lay in bed reading my book for a couple of hours. We picked off the leftovers for breakfast & spent the rest of the morning slowly & reluctantly packing up & getting ready to return to the city. A lot of Swedish people will come out to these houses & spend their entire summer's here, perhaps working in jobs on the bigger nearby islands where there are restaurants & shops…I can see why. It's such a gl...

On Sunday morning we slept in late before one by one appearing on the balcony for a late breakfast with eggs, toast, yogurt, & amongst other things, cucumber. Yes, the cucumber (or gerka, as the Swedes call it) seems to be a very popular thing to munch on pretty much any time of the day or night, particularly strangely at breakfast time. They eat it on toast with cream cheese, which, while strange to me, is not that far I suppose from a cucumber sandwhich a...