New Year on an island

On New Year's Eve we were eight of us (us two, Olle's parents and an uncle and an aunt with companies) who took a boat taxi to the cottage house off the coast of Östergötland. It wasn't warmer than -10 C in the houses when we arrived, but later in the evening we managed to get around 25 C in the larger cabin and about 18-20 C where we slept for the night. The water in the faucet was frozen so we had to connect directly on top of the water pump in order to get fresh water. You have to put up with some more work if you want to stay at the cottage even off season.

We had a nice dinner with champagne shaped ice cream as dessert.

During the next evening the snow started to fall, so the morning of January 2nd we had to shovel for easier access between the houses.

On Sunday the 3rd we drove back north again. This time the roads was more winter like. Not much of cars in our direction, it seemed more like most people were driving south from a trip to the Swedish mountains. Sometimes it is good to live in this part of the country :-).