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Soaked up the sights about Harnosand’s town centre where meeting people while eating ice creams was the order of the day, as well as a perusal of the local art gallery and the old section of the town. Pleasant last day in our wonderful Swedish retreat!!

Sunny day stroll to the coast today for swim sea, rock bathe and wander. Headed homeward through the forest where we found these delecious yellow mushrooms – well, once fried in butter and served on hard bread. A tasty swedish treat for all – and gleaned along the way! Went into Harnosand for dinner that […]

Today we got to celebrate Brittis’ birthday! It was breakfast in bed for the birthday girl, then farewell to Vera and Magnus – cam got to add some colourful flows to the interior before their departure. We then spent a delightful day driving to the high coast, picnic’n by a lake and strolling through an […]

Valerie, Willie and Per tucking into some traditional swedish treats at a museum in Harnosand that recreated life in old school sweden. They are eating a type of boiled scone, sounds weird but was actually pretty good in that homemade jam. Mum and dad are sporting their attractive, and highly practical, rain jackets. Unfortunately, Emma […]

Next day was in the car for a half hour and into the row boat to hang out at our friend’s holiday house, which is a gorgeous cottage built by Brittis’s grandad at the start of the 20th Century. Only access by boat and only house on the island! Called for some more swim time, […]

First day out and about was a stroll to the beach down from the Simonsson’s house, into the forest where there was many a berry to be picked, onto the rocks on the coast, into a cave, over the hill and into a lake for a cool off! Again. Sweden. Amazing.

Cam, I and parentals were also super lucky to be able to go to Sweden for a week to visit the most wonderful family – the Simmonsons!! Emma Simonsson (on the right) was an exchange student at my school in Invercargill and ended up living with us for the last 6 months of her year […]

Cam, mum, dad and I were all very fortunate creatures to be able to attend Pete and Frankie’s wedding in “Grunewald” in Berlin. Pete is a good friend of my brother and sister’s and we have been immensely enjoying getting to hang with him and Frankie in the big B. Amazing wedding with buffet treats […]

So, today is Sunday the 12th of September, but I would like to take us back to the end of July and have a bit of a catch up, aye? I (Emma) worked at a teach English language camp at Olympiastadium in Berlin for a week, hanging out with the German youth, playing English games, […]