Clumsy With Words

In total, we spent two days of traveling by bus, one day of drying our clothes while it still rains outside, and we covered 290 km during a 4-days biking trip. An extremely satisfying vacation, and memories to keep for forever.

We’ve been to both east and west coast. Each side has lovely sand beaches, surrounded by pine trees and blueberry bushes. As far as you can see, there is nothing but water and clouds on the horizon. It is windy during the day, but there are dunes to hide behind and bathe in the warmth […]

We’ve seen a 900 years old oak in a Trollskogen (Enchanted forest) as well as a shipwreck, old ways of producing tar for the boats, old burial mounds, a wishing-well and the biggest swarm of flies ever (luckily I’ve been told to shut up just a couple of seconds before unknowingly walking into it). We’ve […]

Öland is really beautiful. On a relatively small area, you have every biotope you can imagine. The island is 137 km long and at its widest part only 16 km wide. Nightingale is chosen as its representative animal and yellow rockrose its flower. Scattered around the island are ruins and archaeological sites from the Iron […]

We booked two city bikes at Borgholm, and a room in Löttorp, at the STF Hagaby. Little did we know that Ölandsleden and Sverigesleden, two bicycle paths over the entire island, can have truly anything as road material. In hindsight, I am sad not to have taken a picture of every path we biked on. […]

This year, with everything that is happening in the world, we decided to keep our travelling to the minimum and only visit places in Sweden. There is a term for it, “svemester”. It’s a play on words, coined even before Covid-19, meaning a Swedish holiday (SVEnsk – seMESTER). We wanted to keep social distancing as […]