The Booketry

We finally managed to move out of our apartment and at the moment, we're back in Sweden, to move out of our house (and the cabin). To have somewhere of our own to stay (we're really tired of hotel rooms and other rented places) we bought a caravan. It's completely new for us. We've never had one before or gone camping. We really love our caravan. It's so cute and actually bigger on the inside (LOL) than we expected. Here it is:



There are only two beds for grownups so guess where the shortest of us three grownups ended up having to sleep? That's right. In one of the bunk beds for kids. It's really cramped and at first I was a bit uncomfortable with that. Since then I've grown used to it, and I'm more comfortable lying there, but it's still really difficult to get out and onto my feet, since the bed is actually on the floor.

We've had a few problems (like how do you get the water flowing from the taps? and how can we get the toilet working as it should?), but the worst part is probably how cold it is. When we 'moved into' the caravan, the salesman had turned the heat up and that got far too hot for us so we turned it off. Big mistake. Now it's quite cold in here (not during the day, but at night). It was really hard going to sleep in that cold. Autumn has really come now and the last of the leaves are falling off the trees.

Despite all that, we're really happy with our purchase. From now on, no more hotel rooms for us. :) Most importantly, no more dragging lots of luggage around Scandinavia. It can all go in the caravan. This may sounds silly, but we named it Cassiopeia. I think the mostly white trailer looks a bit like a spaceship and since Cassiopeia is a star, it seems appropriate somehow.

We seem to have picked a good camping. The service building is really close by, there's a McDonalds almost as nearby and right across the street there are a couple of shops. Less positive is the fact that there are no really nice paths to go for a walk and we're quite far away from the town center so we can't get our phones fixed easily (not without a bus ride).

This may be a boring post for those of you who don't have kids or if your kids are all grown, but I'll make it short, ok? You can scroll right past it. :)

Now that my kids are getting big (will be five in January - it feels completely unreal that I have such big kids!), and my sister has two little ones who are also getting big (almost two and a half), it's been hard to fit everything they need into one or even two changing bags. I have a really cute changing backpack/bag that looks a lot like my first changing bag that I really love (dark blue with silver dots), but it's not enough for all the things we need. So in the end, I decided to do something radical about it. I bought a shopping trolley. Those things are not really cool or anything, but they can sometimes take quite a bit of stuff. My mom didn't see the point, but then again, she's not the one who has to carry all the children's stuff. For a shopping trolley, I think it's quite nice.

I guess autumn has come. It’s much colder now and today it’s rained quite a lot. Normally, I’d be a bit sad, but these days with global warming and forest fires, I’m rather pleased. Except it’s quite cold at night. At least that’s quite easy to do something about. As long as it doesn’t rain too much it will be ok. I’ll just need my warmer clothes and my boots. I’d love a couple of new books too, but we’ll have to see about that. The kids always need so much and naturally, they have to come first. If I bought all the cute clothes and boots and so on that I find for my kids, I’d probably go bankrupt.

This really good Swedish/Kurdish singer has come out of the closet for Pride week. I’m assuming that’s why he did it. Good for him. Brave too, not just hot and talented. It’s just that - I’ve had a huge crush on this guy ever since he first became famous for his talent. Now I feel like such an idiot. I know I would never have met him and even if we had and even if he hadn’t been gay, he would never have wanted me, but still - Stupid, silly me. :(

 

Just a few days ago we all started feeling sick. It was an ordinary cold, really, not too bad at all, but we immediately began to feel scared it would be Covid-19. For two to three days we felt really awful (but had no obvious Covid-19 symptoms), but right after that, we began to feel a lot better and now most of us are almost completely well again.

There are so many tourists here and it worries me that sometimes it’s hard to keep the distance. So we were really happy to discover a ’new’ (to us) huge protected area, that is a park. There are paths, benches, trashcans - and of course trees and open spaces kept up open by young people working for the town. It’s a really good place, even though the locals walk their dogs there and some, even tourists, it seems, take their kids there. We have no trouble keeping the distance and it’s calm and quiet. Very nice. Now it really feels as if the center of the city is too crowded for us. At certain times of the day, hordes of tourists pass through the park (the one in the center, not the big one we just discovered). Most people are polite though, but there’s just too many of them, even if I understand that they feel the need to get away from their lockdowns.