There wasn’t any action here on the Det Langa Huset blog for a solid 5 or 6 weeks, because all of the action was happening in real life. I started a 1/2 day every day Swedish class a few days after our little guy began 1st grade, a week later our shipping container (finally!!) showed up, so we got to start officially settling in, and then my parents came to play for a couple of weeks, marking our first official…
There are many many playground posts to come, because if Sweden knows one thing for sure, it is how to design an easy-on-the-eye, imagination engaging, physically challenging playground. We happened upon this one after a harrowing drive in the city center to return a rental car led us on a quest for glass, or ice cream. (We lived, obvs, the car made it back in one piece, the ice cream was delicious, all is well.) Check out this little piece…
We took a short trip about 30 minutes northwest of where we are settling to Tollered, in search of living room furniture. While we thought we would go to a furniture shop we had scoped out online and then find a bite to eat, we were delighted to find a small little community of shops, a hotel, and a couple of the cutest cafes. We enjoyed the best pizza we’ve had in months, Mavis took a dip in a lake,…
A few photos from a walk around Göteborg. We went down near Lilla Bommen, in the harbor, and took a ferry to Eriksberg, a former shipyard area. Click on the title if you’d like to see…
A few photos from a family bus ride, lunch, and walk around Heden and Inom Vallgraven, if you’d like to see. We brought Mavis along with us for her first bus ride, and learned the rule “hunder på baksidan av bussen”, or dogs in the back of the bus!