The Swedish side of me

220115 Bredäng with Rebecca

Today I had (again!) the great pleasure to walk with Rebecca. We continued our exploration of the South West of Stockholm alon

Has Sweden invented bank crashes?

The Swedish Riksbank celebrates its 360th anniversary! They say they are the oldest bank in the world. They also had the large

Our adventure in Sarek :D

It was crazy to decide that our second multiday trek would be 14 days mostly in Sarek but at the time we made the decision, we

Sunday morning

Sunday morning, -11 and sunny! Time to go skating with Minna at Hellasgården! ?

Winter Sandhamn

David and I took the ferry to Sandhamn. He has a project where he will illustrate a book about thoughts written on Sandhamn so

Off the auto

I went to a photography Meetup and that was a lot of fun. The topic was flash photography and since I know nothing about this,

Kayaking in the Archipelago

This summer we had a problem with our boat engine, just when we were getting ready to go on 3 weeks holidays! after waiting a

Midsommar i Dalarna :)

 We went to the Swedish region of Dalarna for Midsommar with Toni and Julia. They were invited to Smedjebacken by their frien

Northern lights!

 Lucky us! Have a look here at my pictures of our week end in Kiruna, at the Abisco National Park and near KebneKaiser, t

A white Noel! :)

Tons of snow these days! I took a few pictures during our walk to Kvarnholmen today. Even building sites are nice and snowy! ð

Cinema Politica

Open your eyes and your ears and your brain and your tears to all those pains out there in the back of my head, Ticking. Silen

Cocorico Suédois!

Le Mipex c’est le Migrant Policy Index. C’est Anglais et ca compare les conditions d’integration des immigra

Henrik Safe?

Henrik Trygg lives, like us, in Nacka but unlike us he has just published a book about long distance skating. His last name me

The Big Eye over Stockholm

Here are a few pictures of the strange halo that was seen around the sun above Stockholm. It is not uncommon but normally bare

Raspberries and chocolate brownie!

Christmas at home!! Was nice and warm. I was the cook on the 24th and David on the 25th. I cooked a lamb leg with potatoes and

I just made a gift to myself! :)

Today I bought myself a gift certificate from Kiva then I redeemed my gift by donating $25 to a family in Cambodia to repair t

Espions Francais en Suede!!

Ah! le fameux ‘modele suedois’ dont les Francais parlent tant!Dans une emission sur France 2 par example: C’

Val 2010!

Tomorrow David and I will vote! Alex has decided not to go. As foreigners we are allowed to vote for the town and the county c

Impressive Wikileak

Excellent interview of Julian Assange by TED, the spokesperson of Wikileak which publishes sensitive and secret information on

David drags Max and Alex out of their rooms!!

He actually did it!! Amazing! Here are the pictures. They look dead bored but they liked it! Actually Alex even sailed the boa

Visiting Gällnö with Tony and Julia

Here are the pictures of our two little trips with Toni and Julia to Gällnö, one of the numerous islands that are nature res

Midsommar on Resarö

Dancing frog dances around the pole with flowers on our heads, eating BBQed fish and admiring the sunset! We did all that for

Voting system in Sweden!

Coucou tout le monde! I got a good break today from my dark hole!! At least so far (it’s almost 5pm so not bad!). I am n

Rolighetsteorin.se

Check this very nice idea in the T-bana!Here is the video.

Beautiful swedish winter

A bit of Swedish winter fun last week end on the island of Resarö where Toni and Julia have their beautiful house. David, Pat

Claude et Rog’ in Stockholm!

They came just before my 2nd treatment! Great timing as David had to quickly rush to Ireland to help his mum and dad and as it

Giant brother

Have you all ever tried and surf for something radicaly different from the stuff you usually look up? Give it a quick try: do

winter beauty

summer and winter mix but never mind! Here are some pictures of the very gorgeous Swedish winter!

Bonne année 2010!

Bonanéeeeee!!!!!

Nacka la belle!

Now that I have started, I can’t stop! Anyway here are some more winter pictures. This time it’s on Nacka! The tre

Swedish giraffes

voila! une ballade avec Rebecca cet hiver sur Djurgården!

My favorite sailor!

Before we go on another sailing trip, hopefully in August, here are the pictures of last year’s trip to the archipelago.

We got married!!!

David and I got married last Saturday!! 🙂 The ceremony was held at the beautiful city hall of Stockholm. It was supposed to

how to get a hug from Alex!

Alex has turned 18! This is a few days before his birthday, the day before our departure to France. David gave him his bulkies

LÃ¥dna en amoureux!

Last week end David and I went sailing on his nice unnamed boat to a nearby part of the Swedish archipelago called LÃ¥dna. Ver

Sweden in the dark ages

Here is a story that chills me by the journalist Maciej Zaremba! Racism is all over the place and there is no escaping it exce

paradox

strange facts: there are a lot more rapes reported in Sweden than elsewhere in Europe as reported by The Local. I can see how

la PAC sur le net

French farmers get a lot of money from Europe. Yesterday the exact amounts given to each farmer in all European countries was

Swedish Christmas with Santa

Hi there!Now that I got my PC back, here is a first blow of pictures: Christmas in Stockholm, complete with numerous cousins,

Gorgeous Hellasgården

During the Christmas holiday, Minna and I have been skiing every second day! 🙂 Hellasgården in only 15 min away by bus. Mo

coucou me revoilou!

voila je n’avais rien ecrit depuis un certain moment mais me revoici! Have a look at the ‘070728 david brittany

Memory of the 1024-bit Selectron

this is the first RAM device invented in 1946! It’s called The 1024-bit Selectron. Oh yeah baby! found this on the websi

breaking (the living room) free!

Philip recently turned 40 and I guess I am next. I like this:At the age of 20, we don’t care what the world thinks of us

End of the monopoly of alcohol sales by Systembolaget!

Interesting news about the systembolaget (the only store where one can buy alcohol in Sweden) The tax authority behaviour is s

un article du Monde sur l’alcool au volant

Ben on fera gaffe a nous quand on traversera la route en Irlande!! En Suede le taux limite est a 0.2 g/L. Bonne lecture! Un tÃ

bubbly dolphin

Some very amazing images of dolphins blowing bubble rings in their aquarium! Seems so much fun! You nearly wish you lived in a

Lago the hero!

that’s a good one: he didnt meet Bush but he met Obama. 19000 irakis in one year in a town of 80000 people… amazin

Bagdad in Södertalje

read this in the Local http://www.thelocal.se/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=18 this morning: As Swede

the Truth about David!

The real true truth about David is that he is the very best man in the whole wide world and the whole universe. That’s i

peaceful Högsjö

We just came back from a tiny place called Högsjö near a only slightly bigger place called Vinåker which is a 2h drive West

schools: Swedish versus French methods

Tres interessant, ce petit article dans Le Monde d’aujourd’hui:http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2008/03/11/la

up and downhill

quick update! David and I went to Falun in the Darlana region (North West of Stockholm) on friday evening till sunday. There w

WARNING!!!!

I saw this strange message today written on the electron microscope. Great opportunity to practice your Japanese because my gu

notre appart

Ca rale, ca rale, c’est tout c’que ca sait faire! En attendant votre visite, je vous nourris de quelques photos pr

pretty old stones

This circle of stones is 3000 years old and was recently found recently in Skåne in the South of Sweden.

Isablog

voila je l’ecris en rouge et plus grand pour qu’Isa puisse lire! 🙂 Salut Isa! Bienvenue sur mon blog! Je suis b

We’ve made it and we are still alive!!!

it DOES feel good when it’s done!!We are now in our new apartment, happily swimming in a sea of boxes… We moved my

bits of Gamla Stan

Hi! I like this tag from Gamla Stan! and this place on Storgatan

Clud in Stockholm

Claude was here! Yes I know it’s been a while! A long week end in the middle of May… yes I AM busy!So to see the p

kulturfestivalen (guess what it means…)

Just came back from some really great holiday with David, Max and Alex in Paimpol! It was so nice and relax and happy! Picture

summer fun: sailing Sweden!

yeah not much these days… Life is really happy and it’s also really busy!! now hunting for a new nest. But to make

transgenic percents

I just saw in Le Monde that up to 0.9% of transgenic crop is allowed in ‘bio’ food… Wonder how much transgen

la CIA en Suede

je connais a mort le site de la CIA. super zarbi de comparer les chiffres. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-

Chilly waters

Yesterday was kayaking day with David, Max and Alex. Fun fun and beautiful Brunnsviken lake (or is it the sea?? Sweden is so c

C’etait le 15 Avril 2007. J’ai oublie de poster ca donc j’ajoute ca avec only un an et demi de retard! Mes c

Tyresta park

C’etait le 15 Avril 2007. J’ai oublie de poster ca donc j’ajoute. Mes copains Linn et Philip vont avoir un b

procuquoi?

ration. I have signed it today to authorize my French colleague Michel to vote for me on the first round of the French preside

Beulogue

hej hej!! I am starting a new blog! That’s because Yann told me recently that one needs to get an MSN account to add com

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