Last weekend offered warm and glorious sunny weather, which gave us the chance to go on a boat trip with our friend Sture and his boat to the archipelago outside Gothenburg. The course was set for the small island Vrångö (Wrong Island as Erik likes
Motivated by friends visiting from Denmark, we used a glorious sunny Sunday to visit Nya Älvsborgs Färstning - A Swedish fortress to keep the mean Danes from attacking Gothenburg. My 'old' sled dog friends Kjeld and Charlotte Baagø stopped by in Gothenburg for a visit
Erik and I had a week of vacation in Denmark, where we went around doing a bit of tourism and visiting places we had wished to see for a long time. On the first day, we went with my mother to Tivoli in Copenhagen. Each
First snow of the season and 7 month-old puppy Jörfi's first encounter with snow :-) She seems pretty enthusiastic as most dogs (and children). Everything becomes so pretty when covered in snowy powder. It's the perfect setting for coming in Christmas mood. Photo: Gabrielle. Early morning
Somewhat unexpected, Gothenburg has been covered in a snowy landscape for more than a week, and quite a lot of it. Really pretty in my mind, but causing problems to traffic as could be expected. Luckily, Erik is only 5-10 minutes walk from work and
Written by Erik Sturkell The results from the measurements of the Askja volcano in late July showed continuous declining subsidence. I concluded this is it, the subsidence has levelled out with the center subsiding with less than 1 cm per year. However, volcanoes can always surprise
This is just to advertise our recent popular science article in Geologiskt forum nr. 111, 2021 about the Fagradalsfjall volcanic eruption in Iceland. The article is in Swedish. Link to 'Geologiska föreningen', who is the publisher of Geologiskt forum: https://geologiskaforeningen.se For all who understands Swedish, we highly recommend
Last weekend we finally got a chance to visit Erik's cousin, Anders Eriksson and wife Els-Marie Lejland at their beautiful summer place on the island Orust. Those who have been following the news on this blog know that we have been to Orust several times
First visitors to stay the night in our new home in Gothenburg. My mother, Marlous and aunt, Helma Stockmann came to visit me for a couple of days from Denmark and the Netherlands. We spent one day visiting the castle Tjolöholms slott south of Gothenburg.
Yesterday was the warmest day so far this summer and luckily for us, we could spent the day on Orust with our colleague Bengt and his family. Bengt is looking after one of the neighbour's house and Icelandic horses these days. Just like last time