I am sure those of you who are living in here in Umeå that last week we had the most glorious weather one could wish for this early in June. The temperatures were well over 30°C for most of the days and that was in the shade! One thing that I love about Umeå is [...]
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Mr & Mrs Von Snow
Last weekend as those of you who live in Umeå I am sure noticed we had a LOT of wet, heavy snow. Mainly snow like this is a pain, it makes manoeuvring hard, walking heaving, digging your car out nigh on impossible (trust me we nearly broke our backs trying to get our car out of our [...]
God fortsättning!
This is a phrase you might here when out and about talking to Swedes at this time of year. It is said usually after new year and wishes the person you are saying it to well. I guess the pronunciation of it will differ depending on your accent but I would pronounce it along the [...]
Julmarknad
Last Sunday (5th December) myself and S ventured to Gammlia’s Julmarknad with some friends. We took the bus as it said on the website that parking would be difficult and that was no joke! There were cars parked and abandoned in all sorts of places – even the bus was overflowing for a Sunday (it [...]
Days are getting shorter!
If you are living in Umeå at the moment then you will have no doubt noticed how short the days are here. If you are not then to give you an idea, for the last few days the sun has risen at 8.30am and set again at 2.30pm! So not many daylight hours to [...]
Free Hockey
Ice Hockey is one of Sweden’s largest and most followed sports. Umeå does have a team, Björklöven (The birch leaves) unfortunately they are not very good and have recently been relegated to the back of beyond leagues. Still, they are fighting for promotion and today is your chance to go see them and support them [...]
Snow Fun!
Last Friday if you were in the Umeå area you will have noticed a reasonable snow fall – I say reasonable as I have been living here for two years now and while the 4 or 5 inches of snow that we got would have been HUGE amounts in the UK, here it is barely worthy of [...]
First snow – already!!
This morning I was awoken to expressions of utmost surprise from S, I stumbled out of bed to see what the commotion was and found that snowflakes bigger than my head were falling on the crisp white ground outside! It has been said that we are in the for worst winter in 1000 years and [...]
Umeå Pride
This weekend is Umeå’s Pride Festival weekend. Umeå is a very open city when it comes to gay, lesbian and bisexual people, there is no prejudice and the city has a feeling of openness and acceptance that not many places in the world can boast. Every year there is a pride fesitval celebrating this fact [...]
Kubb
To play or not to play…that should be the question during the summer months. My answer would always be to play as I think this game is ace. I thought I would explain the phenomenon of adults and children throwing sticks at wooden blocks that is such a common site around leisure spaces in Sweden. [...]