Archive for the ‘Nordic countries’ Category

The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo

January 31st, 2012 at 6:32 pm » Comments (2)

Most common reasons why people travel to Sweden use to be Swedish food and design. Now There is something else that’s kind of significant for the time: The film making of the famous Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogy books has made the small country of Sweden ending up visible on the world map finally.
We had of course [...]

Travel Photo: Old door charm

January 30th, 2012 at 9:00 pm » Comments (0)

Lifecruiser’s regular readers know that we have a special love for doors and windows. Can’t help finding old doors worn by the time, very charming. This one on an old charming fishing cottage at Fårö island, Sweden.

In this particular photo I also love that it’s an almost B/W photo, just with the blue details of [...]

Photo: Snake dead on the way

January 27th, 2012 at 11:07 pm » Comments (1)

I captured a snake on photo at our summer island (Gotland) once, which I think is a Swedish grass snake (snok in Swedish) - or Natrix natrix, family: Colubridae. We have two subspecies: N. n. natrix and N. n. gotlandica - which not even many Swedes know actually.

I think this one is a N. [...]