Posts Tagged: cross country skiing

Not Exactly Fly Fishing

Most nations have their own weird traditions: The Finns have their sauna. As often as they can, the Finns will gather in a red hot torture chamber together with their family and friends. Once inside the the sauna, they start beating eachother with sticks while pouring down way too much vodka, only interupted by ice… Read more »

The Olympics, Dalarna and Juha Mieto

Well, we finally got word from Fredrik. Apparently he is cross country skiing in Dalarna, Sweden. We had an interesting debate about the olympics last night. As you might have noticed, things are not going too well for the Norwegians so far. The Swedes, on the other hand… HereĀ“s our correspondence from last night: From:… Read more »

2010

I just finnished my brittish-influenced breakfest. Eggs, bacon… A bit too much coffe on top of that makes my hands a bit shaky. It is very cold now, around minus 15 (celsius) and the ice is thick on all the lakes around Gothenburg. Even the ocean is covered by a white lid in big areas…. Read more »