Travels in C Minor

Old Stone Windmill on Fåro Island, Gotland, Sweden

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:16 PDT

Old Stone Windmill on Fåro Island, Gotland, Sweden, a photo by sawelli on Flickr. This windmill is basically one of the first things you see once you get off the Fårö ferry, which is an island off...

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Old Town in Black and White, Stockholm Sweden

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:28 PDT

Old Town in Black and White, Stockholm Sweden, a photo by sawelli on Flickr. I ride across the bridge that passes Old Town (Gamla Stan) quite often on the train. And it's always such a joy to see the...

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The Sirius Movie: it is time for you to know

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:47:47 PDT

I know I said I've finished writing posts for this blog but I've changed my mind! That's the beauty of the blog. It's not about Sweden (sorry about that) or travelling anywhere myself but it is about...

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Finish line and a lone deer in the backyard

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:17:02 PST

One of the best things about Sweden is that you can have deers coming into your backyard from the forest in their search for a tasty bit of something. The cat wasn't amused though. After nearly 3...

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Two new travel photography calendars: Spirit of the North and Magical Estonia:Nature and Buildings

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:37:28 PST

I have two new 2013 A3 sized photography calendars - Magical Estonia: Nature and Buildings and Spirit of the North in my Red Bubble store and you can see them both here. They're both collections of...

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5 swedish writers

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:08:59 PST

Here's a good little article from the Local in sweden which is a surprise. They've decided to raise the tone a bit recently. It needed it. They're introducing 5 swedish writers that are on the world...

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A wild goose chase in Milan

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:23:21 PST

Recently we visited Milan -our first trip to Italy- for a long weekend. Hopefully to get some sun and experience of some of that world renowned culture, food and spirit of Italy for the first time....

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Diana Krall at Stockholm's Konserthuset 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:45:44 PST

We saw Diana Krall recently at the Konserthuset in Stockholm. The most wonderful intimate, soulful and unique concert inspired by American music of the 1920's. I'm so glad I looked on her website to...

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Lars Jonsson at Prince Waldemarsudde's Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:33:39 PDT

Recently we visited Prince Waldemarsudde's Museum at Djurgården, Stockholm to see the brilliant swedish bird painter Lars Jonsson's exhibition of recent work. It's a beautiful, harmonic show to say...

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Black and White Autumn

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:15:30 PDT

As I've mentioned in previous posts it's pretty grey and gloomy in Stockholm. So when I went for a walk in the forest yesterday I thought I'd take some black and white photos along with the colour to...

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'Autumn Leaves' at the Konserthuset

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:51:10 PDT

Last weekend we had our minds blown open by the virtuoso playing of bassist Stanley Clark and keyboards of George Duke at the Stockholm Jazz Festival. They were sensational to say the least. The...

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Swedish glassmaker to close Orrefors facility

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:54:09 PDT

I was disappointed to read that the famous Swedish glass makers Orrefors have decided to close down two facilities in southern Sweden and lay off 130 employees. Who is responsible for the direction...

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Tropical paradise anyone?

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:50:38 PDT

Well there's almost no sun in Stockholm now. The grey clouds hover over your head like a bad dream and it's hard to feel inspired to do anything much other than plan for your holiday in the tropics....

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Battle over mining in Gotland goes to Sweden's highest court

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:47:05 PDT

Anyone who reads this blog knows that I love Gotland. Well there is an ongoing dispute in Gotland between environmentalists and a Finnish company Nordkalk. Norkalk wants to carry out large-scale...

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If you'd like to learn swedish...

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:54:37 PDT

I just thought I'd give you a brief run down of a few swedish language websites that I've found helpful in my feeble attempts to learn swedish. They're mainly all free resources. Of course nothing...

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UFO hunters converge on a Swedish Lake

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:26:11 PDT

Here's an interesting story from Wired magazine about a Swedish research team that has gone to the far north of Sweden to a lake in Muddus to attempt to verify reports that a "ghost rocket" crashed...

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A beacon of sanity from Northern Europe

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:17:10 PDT

I don't know if you've heard of Red Ice Radio but I discovered it a few months ago on the internet. They advertise themselves as being a 'beacon of sanity from Northern Europe'. I've certainly found...

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Frolicking in Fjärderholmarna

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:18:26 PDT

I hadn't heard of Fjärderholmarna, a group of islands in the Stockholm archipelago, until recently. That's no surprise as there are thousands of islands all vying for your attention to visit if you...

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The sounds of an Estonian summer 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:09:17 PDT

An exercise class on the Pärnu beach Estonia. It's on the south-west coast of Estonia. Thankfully it was a bit warmer and sunnier than Sweden. One of the many old homesteads you see passing by...

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Mare's Garden and Estonian potato salad recipe

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:22:08 PDT

We visited Mare and Lembit's house and garden in Tartu, Estonia recently. Arriving as she finished wheelbarrowing for the third time all the chopped wood into a neat pile. The whole garden is an...

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Summer sauntering in Sverige

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:01:06 PDT

Summer in Sweden is a picture postcard full of green grass, lush foliage and ravishing roses (except when it's raining or hungover with low clouds.) It's absolutely superb while it lasts so you...

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Rain and Ruins

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:10:01 PDT

We took a quick trip up to Uppsala on Sunday since it was going to be sunny and it's nice to get out and see the countryside. I also wanted to take some photos of Uppsala Cathedral though by the time...

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A bicyle ride to Fårö

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:52:37 PDT

In the last few days I read in the news somewhere that the Ingmar Bergman Center in Fårö, (north of Gotland in the Baltic Sea) had received a grant of 15.6 million kronor to rebuild the center. Well...

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A medieval walk around Visby

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:08:34 PDT

For the second time we took the ferry from Nynäshamn to Gotland- the magical medieval island off the east coast of Sweden- for a few days break. We went about a year ago and it was superb weather....

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To Dream or not to Dream: Drottningholm by Ferry

noreply@blogger.com (Susan Wellington) — Sun, 27 May 2012 09:46:54 PDT

Yesterday of course Loreen won for Sweden in the Eurovision Song Competition for 2012, so we weren't going to go and see the free Ingmar Bergman film at Drottningholm Palace. We were going to be busy...

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