Sweden

"Hej!" from Sweden! Our hosts have just installed broadband here, so i thought i'd post a mid-week word or two.
I took this photo at 4.30 one morning this week. We are staying on Skafto island, which is nearly on a level with the Orkneys. This means the days are very loooong.
It is a very beautiful spot. Morten's family have a cluster of cottages next to the inlet in the photo.
We have spent number of relaxed days barbeque-ing, kayaking, chatting and (for me) forgetting what awaits once we get back to the UK.
Today, Sweden celebrates the mid-summer festival. We went to a seaside village where hoards of beautiful blond swedes (many with flowers in their hair) danced around a "maypole" singing traditional songs. It was obviously a very popular festival. People of all ages were there.
Tonight's mid-summer meal, involved seafood of all kinds - salmon, herring, crayfish, caviar all washed down with schnapps.
I haven't mentioned the fishing yet. More on that at a later date.