Sonic!

Upon leaving the apartment to go food shopping yesterday evening, we noticed what looked like a doorstep boot brush. (Down there in the lower right of the photo, under the folding chair.)

It was, however, a true igelkott (HEDGEHOG)!

It was sitting in the warm rays of the setting sun.

(A note on daylight: the days have been getting longer, and soon all of Scandinavia will celebrate midsommarafton. We don't really have any plans, yet, but we'll keep you posted.)

We think he lives under the deck or in... a hedge!

We picked up a couple of final things for dinner tonight. I cooked it all up on our tiny, two-burner-1/4-sized oven.

(The can there that looks like it says GIN is actually Hartwall Gin Long Drink. We bought that one can, tax-free, on the Viking line. Booze shopping onboard is HUGE. Gin Long Drink is a very tasty grapefruit malt beverage, alike to, say, Smirnoff Ice, but not so syrupy... and better.)

And the result:

Köttbullar, potatoes (I blame Ria Blaas and her show "Patty Peels Out" for that link), lingonsylt and chopped spinach, with cranberry juice! Which we ate while watching the Gilmore Girls (in English with Swedish subtitles).

-J.