Canadian

Though the result of linguistic confusion, “Canadian style canoes” or “Kanadensare” as they are known in Swedish, were very much a thing of my childhood and my “kollo” summers at Ekenäs. Every day at kollo (what is known as “holiday club” in the UK), we got to choose what activity to do and I remember almost always picking canoeing.

35 years later, my mother joined Eddie and me for some paddling along the canals of Kalmar this morning, checking out my old “gymnasium” Stagneliusskolan (seen in the picture above) as well as the castle. On the return, we got to see a couple of herons which are really impressive birds close up.