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Definitely into spring now. Last week we were at Drottningholm, the home of the Swedish royal family, enjoying a picnic in the park and yesterday was Valborg, a night which supposedly marks the end of winter and is greated by … Continue reading →

Just saw a good program on SVT that I would recommend watching online (if you can understand Swedish). It was about how Cod caught in the Baltic Sea and landed in a Swedish harbour has no market in Sweden as … Continue reading →

Bratislava is a nice little town (at least in the city centre anyway, across the other side of the river is a big concrete jungle that doesn’t look so inviting). We of course started our holiday with our signature dish … Continue reading →

That’s us back from a great holiday. Thursday afternoon, Friday, Sunday and Tuesday morning in Bratislava and Saturday and Monday in Vienna. Will post some pictures soon… Here is where we were staying in Bratislava. It was a small apartment … Continue reading →

I’ve been very, very boring recently, just working and not really doing anything else, but now it’s time for a wee change of scene. On Thursday me and Maria are flying off to Bratislava in Slovakia for a long Easter … Continue reading →

Over the winter I designed and built a new kiosk that lets you download cool applications to your mobile phone by touching your phone against a little “hotspot”. Last week I installed the first of these in the main tourist … Continue reading →

Perfect weather on Saturday so we went a 10Km walk around Djurgården. Was funny to see people walking around in T-shirts and then you look at the lake and they are still covered in ice. Loads of people out and … Continue reading →

Last week it was minus degrees and snow storms. Today, someone flicked a switch and it was 13 degrees and bright sunshine and the birds were singing in the trees. Spring comes suddenly like that in Stockholm, but I’m not … Continue reading →

Instead of staying at home and watching Scotland getting cuffed by Holland on Saturday night, I decided to go ten pin bowling. And got cuffed at that instead… Was good fun at Birka Bowling in St. Eriksplan and then afterwards … Continue reading →

I was lying in bed yesterday morning dreaming of candyfloss clouds and lollipop trees when I heard the front doorbell go. I looked at the alarm clock and it was 7:25 am and in walked a full squad of electricians … Continue reading →