First Orebro

... it is I don't know,
and yet I am supposed to know,
And I feel I look stupid
If I seem not to know it
and not know what it is I don't know.
Therefore I pretend to know it.
This is nerve-wracking
since I don't know what I must pretend to know.
Therefore I pretend to know everything.
I feel I know what I am supposed to know
but you can't tell me what it is
because you don't know that I don't know what it is."

(R. D. Laing, Knots)

... little bubba is teething like no tomorrow. But overall he has been such a great little baby to travel with. He seems to like the van and knows that despite an initial grizzle when he sits in his car seat that its time to sleep. He is one happy camper baby! :)

To finish the day sat beside our van with our sleeping baby and supping on a 7% beer, looking out over the lake with a nice sunset, we think we heard a woodpecker high up in the pine trees. Off to give the little one a bath.

... by american cars with more corvettes than we have ever seen
* The stars here are gorgeous
* Camping isn't as cheap as other countries but overall Sweden isn't as expensive as everyone seems to think
* The swedish language isnt too hard to pick up the basics, very similar words to german and english. It must like english be derived from Indo - Germanic.
* there are lots of cute little birdys everywhere

The opening of the Ung 7 exhibition at Örebro University Art Hall is on Monday Aug 31 at 15:00, see Vernissage Designutställning UNG7 Read about the Plasticks concept on http://www.jennylundgren.se/portfolio/p lasticks/

... we found a clean albeit small 12m2 room. Not want to spend much time in there other than to sleep we went across the parking lot to a place called Gustivik not knowing what it was we ventured in only to find a world of water. With slides, a wave pool, a rushing river, (yes rushing not lazy) the largest swimming pool I ever saw and a few Jacuzzis scattered around and all of this for only about $10.00, as Noah would say, we had the best day ever.

... do you find a single gravesite in 100 acres? Well, me with my pigeon Swedish managed to confer to the attendant (who knew no English) that I needed to find the Frejd Family grave. We did find it and it was quite an emotional moment for me. I Had not been there for 43 years, since the day we buried my Father. Having relived all the memories of family and childhood we set out for Oslo, of course on the wrong road. Thank goodness one of us was smart enough to turn on ...

... We eventually got back to summer house and started working on the barbecue for the evening . Paul made hamburgers, Kira made shish kabobs. There was Swedish herring with cucumber and egg on top……learned new ways to eat it. It’s interesting to see all

It’s interesting to look out over all the summer homes around the lake. We were told that many have been around a long time. The longest ...

... for about 20 more minutes. Finally, they all came on the bus and we drove on. The day was hot!

At 6:00 PM I arrived in Karlskoga (meaning "Karl’s Forest") in Swedish and Paul Spenser picked me up. We drove out to his in-laws Engholm’s “Summer House” on the outskirts of town. The house is on a lake just off the main Oslo/Stockholm highway called the E-18.

It was great to see Kira ...

Snart är det dags att åka iväg! Som det kan märkas har jag kvar åäö vilket betyder att jag är kvar i kära kära Sverige! Har styrt upp det så att jag och Henke möts upp i Köpenhamn och om allt går som det ska ska vi vara i Amsterdam (weee!) runt kl 9 på tisdag ...

We leave Stokholm to go to Örebro, a quiet city in the middle of Sweden with a nice medieval castle and an enormous and very green camping vhere we stay for 2 nights....Örebro is also the home town of Millencolin, and it's a good reason to come here...!!!