(written by Dave) Just a quick post to let everyone know that we have made it to “the home land” – by car from Stockholm to Varmland.  We hired a car and drove here.  Nancy and I felt like we were on speed all day.  We’d look at the road sign, see the next town … Continue reading By car to Kristinehamn, Varmland

(written by Dave) Before I go too far, I should note that yesterday’s post went out without review by the senior editor.  Nancy was too tired and went to bed while I wrote the post.  I thought about waking her but then reconsidered.  This morning, after the three Peterson girls had ample time to tease … Continue reading Great food and stern guards in Stockholm

(written by Dave) We had a good tourist day today.  We started with Skansen, a giant open air museum in Stockholm.  Skansen was started in the 1870’s when a forward thinking Swed noted how people were leaving the countryside for the city.  He feared that the country history would be lost so he began collecting … Continue reading Skansen and the Vasa warship

(written by Dave) I’m surrounded by Towheads and Petersons.  For the most part, this is ok.  First about Towheads.  Towhead is a term often used to describe young blond haired kids.  Somewhere, Nancy’s mum has a photo of Nancy and her four siblings as children.  There is nothing but blond locks as far as the … Continue reading Touring with Towheads and Petersons

(written by Nancy) Just a quick post to let you know we have arrived in Stockholm after a 5 hour train ride from Ystad and are now comfortably ensconced in a great apartment in the Gamla Stan area with my sisters Kathie and Gretchen, who arrived safely from Oregon about the same time we arrived … Continue reading To Stockholm (by train)

(written by Nancy) We have had a couple of nice relaxing days here in Ystad, courtesy of our great hosts Oskar and Julia.  Yesterday Julia’s mother Liselotte took us for a nice drive out in the countryside to the PGA of Sweden National golf club (http://www.pgaswedennational.se/en/), where Julia’s dad John is the golf pro.  It … Continue reading Relaxing days in Ystad

(written by Nancy) We woke up to the smell of bacon cooking this morning – Oskar has become a bacon and egg roll convert and he was up early on his own accord cooking us up another great breakfast.  We could get used to this…. Today’s main chore was to get the bikes into a … Continue reading Bikes, trains, mayhem and murder in the south of Sweden