Monthly Archives: January 2013

Here we celebrate the Thirteenth Day of Christmas (Epiphany) instead of Twelfth Night, and there is of course a rich and richly documented set of folk traditions. We’d learned about some of these in our class about Jul traditions with Gunnar Ahlbäck, but I didn’t know I would be getting to see a real-live version. […]

For the last long-weekend of my Xmas break, I took the train up to Sundsvall to join in a short 3-day music camp for “youth” (and whoever-all else wants to come). Thanks to Amy Parker for the idea, and for introducing me to a veritable flock of friendly folk musician friends. It was quite entertaining […]

We were honored to be included in the New Year’s Eve gathering that Urban and Hannah traditionally attend with some friends — there were 9 of us altogether, I believe. It was the first time either Mills or I had started a new year abroad, and it certainly got our year off to a good […]

Udo joined us for a day, and picked two really fun ways to show us the city. First he took us to the Älvrummet, where there is a humongous table with a scale model of (a large swath of) the city — it’s used for city planning purposes, and shows some proposed new developments so that […]

Since we’d had such a good time at the design museum in Copenhagen in 2007, we thought it would be interesting to check out the museum of design and applied arts in Göteborg as well. Urban joined us for the day — it was great to have his company, and his insight as tour guide […]

We liked the art museum so much, we went there twice! Well, OK, also the first day they closed earlier than the web site promised — but we did enjoy the collection. Did anyone else know that having one’s nose to the grindstone was ever literal?!?