When the residents of Ljusdal crave for better shopping options, they drive 60 km east to the nearby coastal city of Hudiksvall. It is usually a 40-minute drive by car.
Jaakko and I have never been to the outskirts of Hudiksvall’s town center, so last weekend, to escape the heat in the flat, we decided to [...]
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a fishing village called kuggören
Posted in field trips on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
raspberry tales: picking and pie
Posted in elementary cooking, field trips on August 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, two sweet ladies invited me to join their “Annual Raspberry Picking Day” at the property of a friend in a nearby village.
We arrived just before noon.
Britt and Rakel set up our lunch boxes in the porch. We couldn’t go in because the house was abandoned three years ago. Berta, the owner, became too [...]
our summer in the north (part 3)
Posted in field trips, house & home on July 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
III. The Cast of Characters
“And…ACTION!”
Upon arriving in Nivala, the entire brood (sans Annu and Aleksi because they had summer jobs) was tasked to paint the family home. It was a wonderful feeling to work together as a family and I can imagine how proud Isa and Äiti must have felt, seeing their grown kids’ families, [...]
our summer in the north (part 2)
Posted in field trips on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
our summer in the north (part 1)
Posted in field trips on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So for our annual trip to Finland, we decided to divert from our usual route (Ljusdal-Stockholm-ferry through Baltic Sea-Turku-Nivala) and instead, drove the car all the way to Jaakko’s “home-home” through Northern Sweden.
After a week there, Leena and Antti followed us home to Sweden and they stayed with us for three days. As soon as [...]
