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What my previous post failed to mention was that, ten minutes before the picture of me in the hammock was taken, I had fallen hard on the metal frame as I had underestimated how much the fabric would stretch when someone weighing 80 kg got into the hammock. After a night with coccyx pain, I woke up grateful that I had not paid a lot of money for Göteborgsvarvet as even a slow forest jog felt unrealistic.

Instead, I turned my attention to something more pleasant: finalizing Anna’s and my plans for a quick Copenhagen getaway in early June. With Yoshiko Shimada, one of Japan’s leading feminist and antiwar artists, opening an exhibition, Anna will take the morning train on June 6 and do some research while I stay behind with the kids. Thanks to the kind help of Anna’s mother, however, I will be able to join her later that evening for a night at Manon Les Suites, the hotel with a Bali-themed outdoor pool that I have been eager to check out ever since it opened in 2017. Returning with the train at 10:59 am the next day, we just might be able to join the Fælledparken Parkrun. And for those worrying, I should say that I have now fixed the hammock so that the same thing cannot happen again.