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Today: Lying in the sun, listening to a podcast while the hens are picking in the dirt under the blossoming apple tree. I try to be efficient and update the blog quickly, but it’s just so hard with the sun shining from a shockingly blue sky and so many cute baby chicks to laugh at.Continue reading “Chapter 128: Interlude”

Wednesday evening, 2/5: Thinking it might rain tomorrow evening, my last night in Victoria, I took a late walk down to the water to catch the lights on the Parliament Building with my good camera. Because, sure, the rather pompous architecture of the Legislative Building of British Columbia is nice in the daylight – butContinue reading “Chapter 127: A night walk through Victoria”

On Wednesday (2/5), we left the hostel all together in one big group and walked to Beacon Hill Park, the city park in Victoria. It is big, considering that Victoria is quite small, and it’s really well kept and pruned and cut. Beautiful, really. Not wild, like Stanley Park, but neat. Pretty soon, though, weContinue reading “Chapter 126: Victoria day II – Beacon Hill Park & the Legislative Building”

My love for libraries is not a secret. So, when I visit new cities, I always want to visit the public library, to have as a reference. A city with a good library can’t be bad, while a city with a bad one might not get along with me at all. Vancouver has a goodContinue reading “Chapter 125: British Columbian libraries”

Tuesday morning (1/5), Frida, Karin, Marit and I took the Skytrain to the bus to the ferry to Vancouver Island. I felt a little sad about leaving Vancouver, I could have stayed for atleast another week, easily, but time is usually something limited when you’re traveling. So, I left. But coming to Vancouver Island feltContinue reading “Chapter 124: Victoria day I – Downtown”

Walking along the water in Stanley Park, I was reminded of the walk Kirke, her dog Zorro and I usually make, maybe one Sunday every other month, around Djurgården in Stockholm. It starts out among old, cute houses, but continues down to the water and eventually ends up in a forest mainly consisting of oaks.Continue reading “Chapter 123: Vancouver versus Stockholm”

Rushing into the fast food restaurant where Frida, Karin and Marit were waiting for me, hurriedly starting to tell the story about the sweet old man in the Victorian museum as an excuse for me being late, I was struck by how shrill my voice sounded. I had been speaking and hearing only English (andContinue reading “Chapter 122: The identitiy in a language”

In anticipation of the next part of the fairytale that I’ve been writing for her future daughters. The fairytale about Princess Forget-Me-Not, a girl put away and forgotten in an enchanted garden. Flowers found in a garden, vedged between two skyscrapers in downtown Vancouver.

I’ve never been very fond of dogs. Not that I dislike them. I’ve just never cared that much. I don’t think I ever really wanted a dog as a kid. I did take care of my neighbour’s labrador in the afternoons when I was ten or so, took it for walks in the forest. AndContinue reading “Chapter 120: Missing my dog days”

Monday (30/4) kind of became the left-over day of my Vancouver visit. The one big thing that I hadn’t seen yet was Stanley Park – this big city park that the Vancouverites are so proud of. It is located on the tip of the headland that makes up downtown Vancouver. There are dozens of trailsContinue reading “Chapter 119: Vancouver day IV – Stanley Park & Chinatown”