Hiking and rodeling in the dark

What a wonderful night!
First we hiked up a mountain on a snowy forest road. After 70 minutes of constant uphill we reached a little hut where we was welcomed with a fire and a hot mug of glühwein. And a warm old wooden hut where at least 50 persons where merrily drinking beer and eating knödel, schnitzel and other traditional fare. So so did we.

Then we mounted our rodels (toboggan, sleds) and rode them back down again on the same road. Only this time it took less than 20 minutes (plus a few photo-breaks), reaching speeds over 30 km/h. Great fun!

Landed in Innsbruck

Arrived to Innsbruck yesterday for a week of work here and in the surrounding valleys. Here are a few photos from today, I have to go now, we are hiking up a mountain tonight to have dinner in a hut, then ride rodels down again :-)

the main square in the Old City. Our hotel is just around the corner.

Views from Seegrube, a mountain just above Innsbruck.

Bonen and me

Inside the ski jumping tower

Outside the ski jumping tower, with Innsbruck in the background.

The actual tower.

Snowy Amsterdam

The harsh winter continues in Amsterdam. Well, its tough with Dutch standards but of course rather normal if you use Swedish measurements. Nevertheless trains stop running, mail doesn't show up and the country ran out of road salt making driving hazardous.
A big difference compared to Sweden is that they just don't have the machinery and staff, never mind organization, to deal with lots of snow. Which isn't strange since it so rare - they say that this is the toughest winter in the Netherlands in 30 years.
I kind of like it.

I took the photo on our street the 6th of January.

New Year in Malmö

We welcomed the new decennium in Malmö with a little party together with El Bono and other friends. But first, some delicious food and my favourite champagne :-)

A few days in Copenhagen

After seeing my family we spoiled ourselves with two days in Copenhagen. The weather was splendid and the smørrebrød as yummi as always (we ate at Cafe Sorgenfri and Kanal-cafeen). Femke sniffed out a number of design shops (and I a few bodegas). We also visited Christiania - Femke never been there before, and of course the beautiful neighbourhood of Christianshavn as well as art museum Glyptoteket.

The second day started much earlier than planned with a fire alarm and evacuation of the hotel. In the end it was nothing serious, just a chimney fire. But running barefooted in the fire stairs seven in the morning is quite a abrupt awakening I tell you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Visiting my Mother

After the Christmas party we visited my Mother and stayed for a few days. It is nice to be home with your family and just meet, talk and hang around. One of the days we went to Helsingborg for a fika and a walk in the fresh winter weather. Another day we drove to Malmö for some shopping and Pytt i panna-lunch.

 

 

 

Christmas in Sweden

This year it was time to celebrate Christmas in Sweden with my family. Funny enough, there was more snow in Amsterdam than in Malmö the Christmas of 2009.
The Christmas party itself was at mys sister's place together with relatives of her husband Bo-Arne. And lots of food :-)

Snow in Amsterdam

The last couple of days it has been snowing here in Amsterdam. And unusually, the snow is still around!

 

My little boat, all snowed over

 

Snowy street outside our apartment

Work in Vienna

I had the pleasure to spend three days working in Vienna in mid December. Here are some photos from that trip.