I will figure out how to pdf my LJ, now that I think about it, and then store it up in Google Drive so that it will not vaporize when my computer does.
My wife never lived in Sweden, because it was her great grandparents' generation that immigrated. She hasn't written about Sweden, though she did take one of my favorite photos of little Swedish girls in Summer dresses when we were in Stockholm. I ought to scan that in.
We visited Sweden very briefly during a cruise, on which she was travelling as a free lance journalist and I as a well-treated spouse. She did write an article about that trip,but it was about the Blockade Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was a very moving day to tour St. Petersburg with a guide who had been a child during the siege and to understand the twin horrors of the invading Nazis and the Stalinist regime. I should find that article, because it was a fascinating day we spent in St. Petersburg doing research.
In Stockholm we went to a tourist place called Feather Island. When a French couple pretended not to speak any English, a woman who was demonstrating Swedish blacksmithing teased them. Going into Stockholm by ship was amazing--dozens of miles by canal-like waterway with aromatic trees all around and pastel-colored wood houses we could see at 3 in the morning because it was Summer.
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My wife never lived in Sweden, because it was her great grandparents' generation that immigrated. She hasn't written about Sweden, though
she did take one of my favorite photos of little Swedish girls in Summer dresses when we were in Stockholm. I ought to scan that in.
We visited Sweden very briefly during a cruise, on which she was travelling as a free lance journalist and I as a well-treated spouse. She did write an article about that trip,but it was about the Blockade Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was a very moving day to tour St. Petersburg with a guide who had been a child during the siege and to understand the twin horrors of the invading Nazis and the Stalinist regime. I should find that article, because it was a fascinating day we spent in St. Petersburg doing research.
In Stockholm we went to a tourist place called Feather Island. When a French couple pretended not to speak any English, a woman who was demonstrating Swedish blacksmithing teased them. Going into Stockholm by ship was amazing--dozens of miles by canal-like waterway with aromatic trees all around and pastel-colored wood houses we could see at 3 in the morning because it was Summer.