Category Archives: Museums & Galleries

Beyond the ordinary

Posted on November 12, 2024 by Gary

According to the text on the wall at the entrance to The Subterranean Sky exhibition at the Moderna Museet “The Surrealists wanted to transform the world and liberate human creativity from the constraints of reason. They see a slumbering primordial … Continue reading →

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It IS a small world after all

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Gary

I was on the 65 bus, returning from Skepsholmen when a woman sat next to me and asked if I lived in Trosa. She seemed harmless enough, so I said yes. She then told me that she did as well, … Continue reading →

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John and the shoe shine scam

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Gary

In 2006, Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2008, his next novel, The Museum of Innocence, was published. It tells the story of an Istanbul man, Kemal, who loves Füsun, his poorer cousin, someone he … Continue reading →

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Always losing her daughter

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Gary

Something I haven’t mentioned about Istanbul is the cats. There are a lot of them. You can’t really look anywhere that is devoid of cat. In groups, individually, asleep on posts, staring up at trees, sauntering along the street. It’s … Continue reading →

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Tati-incredible

Posted on August 9, 2024 by Gary

The Bunge Museum is huge. It is another hembygdsgården type place where lots of Gotland buildings have been moved to form an open air museum but, unlike the others we’ve seen (apart from Skansen) it is, as I said, huge. … Continue reading →

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Lost: One monkey

Posted on August 8, 2024 by Gary

In 1948, three Swedish, 14-year-old boys, decided to explore a cave on Gotland, near a place called Lummelunda. The cave had been explored back in 1924 but the fellow who tried only managed to get a little way before having … Continue reading →

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Ingen dryck, ingen glass, ingen korv

Posted on July 17, 2024 by Gary

I stood before a room painted in eye watering red. In the centre of the room, a figure kneels, in silent prayer. The figure appears to be that of a young school boy. On the wall in front of the … Continue reading →

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Big ugly American car cemetery

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Gary

Today we went off-road for a bit. Mirinda wanted to drive down the other side of the Övre Fryken Lake and, as we drove, the road became narrower and narrower. What started as a pedestrian/cyclist/car shared track, gradually ended up as … Continue reading →

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Art, lunch and linen

Posted on July 4, 2024 by Gary

Mirinda loves the British Arts and Crafts movement. We have pieces in our house that owe their existence to the artistic movement. We have visited many British sites in order to bathe in the brilliance that was Arts and Crafts. … Continue reading →

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Swarming robot mowers

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Gary

Having had possibly the best hotel breakfast I’ve ever had (at the Scandic Klarälven), we packed the car, checked out of the hotel, spent a long while searching for Mirinda’s hat which was at reception and walked into Karlstad. Our … Continue reading →

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