First things first: it’s Annandagpåsk, which literally translates as “another day of Easter”, which I think is delightful. In Sweden they take the Monday off as well. I don’t know why, but it’s nice.
Hey everybody – I’m a podcaster now! If you know anything about me, you probably know I love adding to my list of “skills” (often much to the detriment of mastering anything) and this past week I added “start a podcast” to that list. Each of my episodes is one 20-40 minute yoga session, mostly with me just calling out the sequence (and a little bit of blathering). You can find it on Pocket Casts (my choice for podcast listening), Apple Podcasts (where they’ve bleeped out the word “bullshit” from my description) and Anchor. At least on Pocket Casts, you can just search for “amber yoga” and I’ll come up. Since I’m throwing something into the world, I thought I might as well blog about it. And if I’m going to blog about it, I might as well give you all my thoughts on yoga.
A Frozen Lake and Barcelona
David, old favorite on the blog, came to visit us a few weeks ago. We were really excited because we would have one day in Gothenburg, then shoot up to Kiruna for four and a half days of far-north activities: northern lights, dog sleds, ice hotels, Arctic Circle – the works. We did lots of Gothenburg things the day after he arrived.
One big surprise for all of us was Delsjön! It had been (and is now again) ass-cold in the entire country. Lots and lots of snow and temperatures hanging around -5 to -10! I wanted to take David on my “regular walk” through the woods but when we got to the lake this is what we saw:
