Light festival

Anxious to keep my half marathon streak intact, I took the bus into Umeå shortly before 6 am and met up with Petra for an extended river run in the snow. Just as when we did our marathon a month ago, we made sure to include some “lussefika” at Circle-K but, this time around, our path also got lit up by thousands of lights, culminating with all the candles in Vänortsparken.

With the winter here in earnest, I otherwise made paella last night and opened the bottle of white wine from Es Trenc that I had brought with me from Mallorca. After all the travels and sunshine, the cold and the darkness feel much more bearable than usual.