Cut n Eat!

Mattanterna is back! Theme for the evening was 'Raw' a night where cutting replaced cooking. Basashi rules sweden as well

Crayfish :)

Traditional party in Arlov
Snaps n shellfish :)
Funny hats and silly singing
Fuzzy picture but this is a fuzzy type of party

Back home after a WET day

Brilliant but WET day today. Started with late breakfast! You sleep great in a tent :)
Then off to Trollstigen
A beautiful road scaling the mountain, marvelous! And at same time a tourist trap. After that we decided to walk up the towards the clouds, first hour was fine then the rain came back w full force :) WET WET WET

Atlantevejen

We had heavy rain all night and since it did not ease up this morning, we had to some re-planning.
First I woke them up when the breakfast was ready, served in bed since the rain refused to let go.
Then instead of walking to the top of trollveggen we decided to take the car and look at atlantevejen (google that). A beautiful set bridges connecting some of the last islands. Amazing! The atlantic on one side fjords and magnificent mountains on the other. This place is really the perfect mix, mountains and ocean. Driving around is magic, outside pristine beauty, in the car the teenagers play heavy metal as loud as they are allowed :)

Thunder in the valley

Imagine the sound!
Our tent is in a small valley, maybe 1 km across, with atleast 1000 m high cliffs on both sides.
Thankfully we have a good tent :) and toys...

Trollveggen :)

Done the basics after we arrived. It is humbling to have a 1000 meter cliff just outside the tent. Found this spot 5 minutes walk from where we sleep. A big rock in the white water perfect view of the cloud crowned mountains. :) love it. Breakfast here tomorrow!

Arrived at trollvaggen

After 4 hours meandering on a narrow road along n above a beautiful valley, we arrived!
Tent fixed first!
Then the big question!
Real coffe camping ?

The answer is YES!

Happy Campers!

Ok, should start to admit, we are not really camping yet. After a long drive through Norway we have reached Lillehammer and found a motel to spend the night. More tomorrow! Maybe even a tent picture :)

Lovely summer morning

Weather have been great lately. Real summer in Lund. Only one drawback - it's a workday :(
On the bright side, next week will a camping week in norway.

Spring In Sweden?

Hopes are high, spring is coming. A small set back this morning, a quick look out the window, SNOW! We want sunshine!!!

World of Warcraft

the board game! Can any imagine a better way to spend a Sunday aftrrnoon? Isak just bought an extension to make it even more complicated (and fun hopefully). Inaugration time!

Stuck in the airport

Wake up call at 5, bus left at 6, apparently they need extra time the days the shortcuts through the mountain passes are closed (with no or short warning) but still we are VERY early at this small and cramped airport :) must be another 50 buses that has arrived early!

Off piste boy :)

Found this marvelous run today, starting at 2600 m n ending up in the village at 1400. All that was needed was to make a slight shortcut through the off-pist. A big (safe) mountain side, a little tricky at times but rewarding :) This were we mostly spent our last day. Now it is dinner packing and sleep, the bus leaves for the airport @ 06.00 tomorrow morning :(

High altitude chemistry?

Since the weather report said sunshine :) we went to the slopes facing south to get us a soft day. This side is not that steep but still have some nice runs and possibilities to make your own tracks inbetween the pists. (but how the heck do you ski windpacked snow with an icy crust?) In the early afternoon we were warm n needed a break n went to this small reataurant at a bueatifful spot around 2500 m altitude. Gabbes chocolate behaved quite normal but the beer was funnier, when pored it looked normal but as soon as we took it out the head grew higher. A minute later the froth was frozen and stayed frozen until the glass was emtied. I know that the japanese often try to get this effect by keeping the glasses frozen but this was different! CO2 and altitude? It was not that cold in the sun.

Life is good!

Say no more!

On top of the world?

Ok, ok not the world but our world this week! Pic de l"Yret @ 2830 m high. We had high hopes to find a nice soft slope but all we found was a rock hard red slope back down where all the nice soft surface snow was brushed away. The best mountain so far is called Cibout, not as high but harbouring a shadowed side with both a black mogul slopes as well as some steep off piste :) naturally the little is far ahead of me here as well, as soon as he realised he could ski these very steep slopes. A good day all in all!

Woke up early today

Now after 30 minutes of streching I think I can go back to sleep. Skiing is really the ultimate holiday, lots of fresh air and physical exercise nice views to oogle and the food, Yes we are in france! This time I rented a pair of monster skis, after a few years of carving skis with very narrow waists that seem to do most of the work by rhemselves i got something different this year. Much longer, much wider, look more like the things ski-jumpers use. OK the main reason I have them is that the rental guy said -these are the best skis I have, but I am not sure you are good enough to ride them. He was right! As long as we stay in slopes within my limits they are wonderful, really lovely skis, but as soon as I step out of my boundries they become "the punisher", the slightest mistakes are severly punished :) but so far so good, only one serios wipe-out until know

A room with a view?

What we see outside the hotel

Dad! I don't want a summerhouse!

....unless it is the alp's. And we only have winter holidays all it took was 2 runs :) n his boots does not even fit yet.

Dad! I don't want a summerhouse!

....unless it is the alp's. And we only have winter holidays all it took was 2 runs :) n his boots does not even fit yet.

Our room - at last.

Finally! Our room, we woke him up this morning as we normally do on birthdays. Just that this was one week early! The present was a week of skiing, just him and me. Now we have arrived in Serre Chevallier. Gabbe checka out the map n prepares for tomorrow. Mountains! Love them!

So I have been quiet :)

Two months back in Sweden and not a single beep here, I should be ashamed of myself :) This weekend we went ice skating on this beautiful lake. It was a cold and windy day but still a very nice way to spend a few hours on a saturday. I do miss Tokyo but this kind of skating is pretty hard to beat. As long as you go with the wind it is easy as well.