Shore leave

Next week, the kids will be back in school for “holiday club” as the Brits would call it, but for Thursday and Friday this week we decided to take some time off together. After the first swim of the season at Umelagun, we took the ferry over to Holmön where we had book a night at the hostel next to the wooden lighthouse in Bergudden.

Like a subarctic version of Ven, Holmön is a cyclists’ paradise with a very distinct island-atmosphere with lots of sheep, tiny red houses and abandoned cemeteries. Despite not having been away for a year, the kids still loved their new bunkbed and slept like babies for once. Once back home on the mainland, I took my rowing to 25 km this month and made an old-time favourite dish: chicken with fennel, saffron and tomatoes.