Wide Open
This week I live and work in Kiruna. And the more I walk around here, the clearer it becomes: this is not a city that just lies somewhere. It is a city that is on its way – literally. The journey here It was a sunny journey at 6 in the morning by car+train+plane+taxi Older than…
Fiskaregatan in Kalmar. A small yellow+green house in a block of green, red and yellow wood, with the water tower as a quiet landmark above the roofs. We stepped inside – and there was exactly that feeling you hope for when renting: cozy, fresh, thought out down to the smallest detail. The inner courtyard with its old doors, the pear tree full…
There's something special about the night before a trip. Your bag is open on the couch, your list is next to it, and the feeling of soon being somewhere else creeps into your body. I love that feeling. And over the years, I've found a system that makes that particular evening cozy instead of stressful. Here are some…
We were on our way to Skåne. That was the whole plan. But the motorway didn't appeal, so we turned off and let the coastal road set the pace – the one that winds its way between Varberg and Falkenberg with the sea glistening on the right. Just under a mile north of Falkenberg lies Glommen, an old fishing village with red boathouses, boats in…
Free Friday – Freedom One Saturday, Dad and I go to pick up Mom from the hairdresser. She has done her hair. Waved it, as they call it. She is beautiful and smells like hairspray. Mom asks if I think her hair is beautiful. I answer that she is ugly-beautiful. Because she herself thinks that…
Free Friday – Freedom It's a wonderful feeling of freedom to stand in a harbor somewhere far from home, order a cup of tea and pay without thinking a single thought about what the bank will charge as a surcharge. Vacations, and other trips, should be felt in the body – not in the bank account. Yet that's exactly where many of us…
Okay, I have to share this. Google Earth has just released a flight simulator. Free, no download, right in your browser. You go to earth.google.com, click Explore Earth, then Tools, then Flight Simulator – and suddenly you’re sitting in a plane over any place on Earth. If you change the basemap from Map to Satellite, you’re flying…
For most Swedes, there is something very special about Midsummer Eve in Sweden. Not just because it is one of the longest days of the year, or because the strawberries finally taste the way they should. It is something deeper than that. It is as if the whole country takes a collective breath, puts down what is heavy…
Friday again. I took my white Bianchi Aria out in the sun today. Pumped up the tires, lubricated the chain. Put Pu in the purple backpack and then we set off towards Jönåker. He sat there in the back with his ears in the wind as if it had always been that way. Maybe it was. Dogs know such things. June air. Speed. Silence except for the wind…
It started by the sea in Gothenburg — a thought about living with more flow, more joy, more of what really matters. Every day, not just on the weekends. But a thought rarely wants to stay in one place. It wants to travel. Today you can meet Amaelle in 11 languages — and regardless of whether you…