This old chestnut tree still has a birdhouse I made at school. Check it out on Flickr.
August 31, 2010
August 29, 2010
August 20, 2010
August 19, 2010
Thursday
I'm going to Sweden. You can't say that anymore without thinking of this commercial. I promise I won't watch soccer though.
August 18, 2010
August 15, 2010
Sunday
I'm almost back again from my blog break. I have only one week left of my summer holiday and then it's back to work (and the Internet). Next week we'll be spending in Sweden shooting a wedding, the first real wedding jikes...
Good news is my long holiday this summer was only partly the reason for not being online. Our son is having a little brother or sister around New Year's and I haven't been feeling too well the last couple of months. But now things are a lot better. And from the end of next week until 01-01-11 I 'll have lots of time kill at work, hopefully. I miss my favourite blogs.
Good news is my long holiday this summer was only partly the reason for not being online. Our son is having a little brother or sister around New Year's and I haven't been feeling too well the last couple of months. But now things are a lot better. And from the end of next week until 01-01-11 I 'll have lots of time kill at work, hopefully. I miss my favourite blogs.
August 14, 2010
July 24, 2010
July 23, 2010
Friday
Every summer we go on vacation to the end of the world. It's a 5 hour drive, until the road comes to an end on the beaches in the far west corner of Iceland, also called the Westfjords. My boyfriends grandparents left their house in 1971, the last part of the road being impassible from mid September until June because of snow. During that time they had to to walk to the store across the mountain. Going there is like travelling back in time. Because it's so inaccessible nothing has changed in the houses that are now used as summer houses. There are also a bunch of abandoned houses in a spooky herring factory. A whole village actually where people just walked out and took off with the herring in the midst of the last century. It's a lovely spot the few weeks you can stay there. There is no telephone, no mobile network, no Internet access. The electricity and water comes from the river and the lights are fluctuating as the voltage go up and down. They have the most amazing swimming pool with natural hot water at the beach. It has a box where you put the admission that pays for maintenance and the cleaning lady and it's open 24 hours. Landscape is breathtaking. It's the least populated part of Iceland and the farmers on the other side of the mountain are still trapped in the winter because of those steep roads clinging to the mountains that surrounds the many fjords and supplies are flown in with small planes only if the weather permits.
June 25, 2010
June 7, 2010
Wednesday
I'm still in holiday mode. Thought I'd just share pictures from this old farmhouse on the beach. There are a lot of old abandoned houses in Iceland but this is now used as a summerhouse. You had to drive along the beach to get out there.
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