Moving Day

After months of anticipation and a car packed to the breaking point, we arrived at our new home to find that ... Not everything was as we...

Moving day

I haven't been at Bastubacka for a long time, some four weeks. That is the longest absence since we acquired the place last summer. It's...

I used to love watching Mister Roger's Neighborhood on TV as a kid. Sesame Street and The Electric Company were the hipper versions of...

If there is one thing we have learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, it's that we are not in charge. Well, we have learned a lot of things....

It's been a whole new intro to flora and fauna. I grew up in the countryside, but that was in a completely different environment, a...

Planting a spring garden in autumn

When we were here two weeks ago, it was still summer. Now autumn is in full swing. The summer here was so long and relaxing, so full of...

As newcomers to the second home experience, there is definitely an excitement about returning to a place we left behind weeks or even...

I'm the banker's wife. I don't speak very good Swedish.

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