Yesterday evening.

It´s something special with the ocean, something I can´t explain. I love it here where I live, the forest, the bog and the open fields. Those places make me calm and happy with myself and my life. But coming to the ocean and I feel at home. Most probably that has to do with the fact that I grew up by it and spent quite a lot of time sailing on it.

Getting close to the island.

It´s not that far to be honest. There has been talk about building a bridge but the islanders always says no!

View from my friends house. As You will see in these photo´s the houses isn´t read as they are here where I live. Only barns and sheds are usually red here.

This little cottage however is red and that´s the place I´m going to sleep in next time I´ll visit. Going to feel just like home there :-)

I had driven perhaps 30 miles (3,5 mil) when I felt a tire starting to wobbling. I had checked that there was enough air in them the day before so I stopped the car and got out. The breaks were really hot and I burned my fingers when touching them. Well I haven´t been driving much so I guess that was the reason. So I took a short break and continued. After another couples of miles I stopped again to feel if they still were hot, but they were as cool as they should be so I continued once again and reached my friends without further problems.

My friends house. They are still renovating it but it is a very beautiful house. Next time I´ll take a better photo of it.

Now we have started our walk on the island. As You can see the houses are very different from here where I live. They might look very big but are actually rather small inside.

It´s funny really, when You meet friends You haven´t seen in years (we can call my friends C and H. C is the man and H the woman). We just continued from where we sort of stopped the last time :-) :-) :-) But I think that´s what happens with really good friends.

Finally the ocean. The houses You can see is on another island on swimming distance. Well it would be in swimming distance if the currents weren´t that strong. I always had problems here with my sailboat if the currents went the wrong way :-)

When I started to work at Volvo all these years ago I felt a bit lost to be honest. It´s a place where thousands of people work and the work pace is high and I was a much shyer person then, but C sort of took care of me there. But we didn´t only work together, we spent most of our free time together too :-) I and H used to go jogging together because C was way to fast for both of us. The last time C jogged with any of us he ran all the way backwards and faster than us :-) :-) :-)

This is much how the coastline looks around Gothenburg. No beaches with lots of sand.

Now we´re on our way to the highest peak on the island and I have to say that I need more exersize :-) :-)

No matter how small the island is, there´s always houses on it :-)

But then we moved away and as most times we met more seldom. Well lots of e-mails and sms were sent, but that´s not the same thing is it. But then finally I got my thumbs out of my ass (Swedish expression) and drove down to their new home out on an island outside Gothenburg. At home the weather was quite cloudy and rather cold. But when I reached the island it was warm and the sun started to shine. They day became perfect to be honest and the best thing was that there were almost no flies :-)

Now we´re going down to the forest.

I don´t think there´s a single spruce or pine in this forest.

It grows all the way down to the ocean.

C and I took a long walk on the island too. Half of it was forbidden area for most people before since it was owned by the army. I´m not a big fan of any army but one good thing with them owning lots of land is that it is untouched. So in contrary to most of the islands outside Gothenburg it has a rather big forest. The island also has one of the biggest viper populations (the only poisounes snake we have. It´s not worse being bitten by it that getting a bee sting) You can find here in Sweden. But we didn´t see any on our walk.

Going home again was an adventure in itself to be honest. I drove away in the worst part of rush hour. Up here rush hour means twenty cars on the highway. Down there it means that the cars almost not are moving. I had no more troubles with the breaks, but I suddenly understood that my car just died when stopping! That was a bit worrying but I managed to get out of Gothenburg without any more problems. I tried several times to see if the engine died and so it did.

Teodor sat a long time at the entrence stairs after we had come home.

I baked a tomatoe and basil bread because I didn´t have any bread when I came home. It doesn´t taste much tomatoe nor basil, but it´s quite ok anyway :-)

The old stone age toomb.

Just before the rain started this morning. But now the sun shines again :-)

But when I came home and was getting out the car to get my mail it suddenly sort of jumped and now the engine works without me pressing down the gas pedal???!!! Well now it works and therefore I´m happy :-) :-) :-) Now it´s time for a cup of tea. Outside the rain is falling and will continue so all day. Thunderstorms are predicted too. Normal weather for us living far north.

Have a great day now!