Tomorrow all over the Nordic countries people will be celebrating Midsummer Eve.In Finland this means that good food and drink will be consumed, there'll be some dancing, and fires will be lit to mark the night when the sun never sets.In Sweden, and in Åland, people will be picking wild flowers to … [Read more...]
Midsummer in Lemland, Åland
After a sleepless night when it never got fully dark, my post about midsummer in Åland is going to be a rather picture-laden one.The house is traditionally decorated with silver birch branches. The festivities started almost as soon as we settled in on Midsummer's Eve. Wood-buring sauna was … [Read more...]
Hauskaa Juhannusta – Happy Midsummer!
It's Midsummer's eve tonight. All day I've had Happy Midsummer -wishes from friends and family in Finland and Sweden, making me very home-sick. It's on days like today, with the exception of perhaps the 1st of May, when I miss being home the most. I … [Read more...]
How I came to be in England – Part 20
It wasn't until June that year of the Falkland's War in 1982 that I and the Englishman finally managed to see each other. We'd been apart for four long months, during which I'd feared for my submariner's life my every waking hour. He telephoned me very rarely. When the news of the sinking of the HMS … [Read more...]
