Summer fun

The best weather with sunshine and a cool breeze invites to be outside and I am surprised about the different possibilities offered to play and have fun in the parks in Stockholm.


Looks serious, but I assume it is a medieval 'game' in Fredhaell park.

The skating ground build under a bridge and a track for running -

In the city an installation for jumping in the air and not far away a place to jump in the water:

The difference of four months

July 28, 2011

We took a quiet walk along the water in Oesthammar. The Baltic sea is winding through many Islands small and large forming the archipelago of Stockholm to the North and to the South. This is the ideal area for summer vacations during July and August. Everybody is soaking up the sunlight missed during the dark winter and now the long days are spent outside enjoying the sun in the beauty and calmness of nature.

In March it was a different beauty when snow and ice started to melt away.

Forsmarks bruk and power plant

With friends who live in Oesthammar I visited the nuclear power plant in Forsmark. After the guided tour of two hours, I know more about this large source of electricity for Stockholm and Sweden.

No photography allowed but more info for the curious under http://www.vattenfall.se/sv/forsmark-nuclear-power-plant.htm

Our summer place

Monday July 25 -

A five minutes walk and we could jump in the lake Maelaren from Fredhaells badet. We waited ten months for that! In Boston it is 41C and we think about you. Wish you were here.

In the heart of Stockholm

Gamla stan - the old town - of Stockholm seen here from the garden in front of the Town Hall
in the evening on Sunday July 24, 2011, two days after the shocking incident in Oslo.

The last stretch to Stockholm

Saturday July 23 - we left Skaane early in the morning to drive up North the last 610 km to Stockholm. Europa road number 4 - E4 - is the way to go and one has to watch out for


the elks which can cross the road unexpectedly! They are heavy animals and - large.

'ca merite un detour'

Taking the ferry over the Oeresund from Sweden to Danmark, we visited the Modern Art museum Louisiana.
Art inside and outside and well situated in a gorgeous park at the eastern coast.


The seagull ccould not read 'Do not touch'!