I need to get my camera fixed...

Posted Sat, 06/26/2010 - 09:27 by Melissa

From last year in sweden, when I bothered to take pictures of my food

Lemon curd with currants

Mango shrimp on the shore at "mermaid cafe" in Stockholm

Freshly harvested honey

The apple genetics garden had hundreds of varieties of apples free for the picking- plus berries. Some, like this crabapple, were hardly edible though.

I loved it there because you could really live the idyllic life with the conveniences of the city. I never had to drive, bike paths went everywhere. A high speed train took me to Stockholm in an hour. The winter sucked, but I think the summer more than made up for it. If I had my way in life, I'd live in Madrid in the winter and Stockholm in the summer.

Comments

I guess this is the downside

by Chris - 06/27/2010 - 23:48

I guess this is the downside to being a farmer--you can't be a jet-setting farmer, although I did see an article somewhere recently by a billionaire who moved to Singapore and thinks landholders and farmers are going to be the future of wealth. He said if he was young, he would buy land around the DMZ in Korea. I have no interest in that, though. Having been to Asia, I can't see it as anything other than an interesting place to visit. My guess, like the neuroaesthetics people who think expansive landscape painting is hardwired into the pleasure centers of the brain due to evolution, is that geography is hardwired into our pleasure centers, too. I had a rush visiting the old ancestral lands. Anyhow, yeah, Madrid and Stockholm would be nice. Is there a noticable difference in terms of land/agriculture between Sweden and Norway?