Endless roads
Pine trees forever
Wooden houses painted red
Volvos and Saabs
Skinny dipping in the Baltic
Crispbread
People who know how to live in five hours of daylight, and who delight in 20 hours of daylight
Yellow on blue – the flag in front of every house, it seems
The well cared for graveyard
The Harley riders
The people welcomed from the world’s troubled countries
The work of pioneers – Lena-Kristina Tuulse and the Wäxthuset movement
Haunting folk music; easy to imagine it has been played for hundreds of years
The open discussion about sex
The big sky – reminds me of Australia and the Mid-West
The lingering light and the eternal sunset of midsummer
Berries, apples, flowers – the abundance of the gardens
People making a difference – drug rehab, rebuilding shattered lives (it’s not all paradise in Sweden)
The Life University
Wooden floors, wooden walls
Knowledge that the warmth of summer will soon go
Space, endless forests and water at every turn
Creme de la Mer! Knolly, you may not be surprised to hear that I was once tempted by the promise of youthful skin in a jar – in the days when I spent a few hours in airports being a ‘business woman’……A few folk commented that I looked ‘well’ but I decided that there were better things to spend my money on…….like shoes! Love your frivolous friend, Lisa X