They did indeed speak English from time to time, especially in Sweden and the Netherlands. But when we were in Italy, they did not want to speak in English, and we have some funny stories related to our travels there!
I have seen these snowy pictures! A lot of people from the north have started posting pictures of snow, and it is incredible.
Have a splendid week!
Yes, some countries like Italy and France in the countryside they din’t want to speak english.
I can imagine the funny stories. You have to share one day 😉
It is cool 🥶 to see the snowy posts around hive. I love reading them. It is incredible the snow.
Thank you so much 😊 you too have a wonderful week 👋🏻
Time flew past me! I could not sit down and slow down, but now I have a little bit of time!
So, happy new year and I hope you had an awesome (white snowy) Xmas!
I will need to write those stories down, otherwise I will forget them! I wanted to write a small travel book of my experiences, but it never really happened.
I hope that the start of the new year was good!
Oh, time goes fast. We keep saying it. I so understand. The same here. Good to hear you have a little time now. Enjoy it!
Thank you so much my friend. Yep, we had loads of snow. It must be half a meter in some places now. It is snowing right now again. The xmas was lovely… quiet just hubby and me. We made it cosy and special though. The same for New Year. Soooo quiet here, we heard nothing hahaha just nature and us. Wonderful in many ways.
Happy New Year to you and yours 🥳 hope all the festivities were nice and the year started well for you. I wish you all the best for 2025 😊
It sounds like you should, so you don’t forget them. A travel experience book 📖 is awesome. Yes why not. I hope you find the time for it… as you sure can write one.
Thanks!
Have a great week 🙂
I am not sure how I did not respond! But rather late than never. I hope that you are still well, and that the snow hasn't fallen too much!
Your Xmas sounds idyllic! I would really appreciate such a quiet moment in the festive season. It is always such a running around and people always move around too much! Just listening to the sounds of nature would be perfect.
I hope that the first couple of days of the new year was good! And I hope that the winter is not too cold.
Yep 😋 rather late than never. All well here. The snow reached up to about 63cm some places even more.
Yesterday the weather turned and we had 4 hours of sleet coming out of the sky. It turned everything into ice. The top layer of the snow and every object. I hear news that loads of people couldn’t go out with the car as it is one ice 🧊 block everywhere. Lot’s of accidents on the cities.
We wanted to go grocery shopping today in the city 1,5 hours away, but we wait a bit.
Temperatures go up to 4 degrees today and tomorrow, so more ice to be expected. It is not a normal winter here… normally more snow and below -15 degrees Celsius.
It was just what we needed… we experienced something wonderful too. The deer are coming every day to the cabin now since we are feeding them (started just before Christmas) i counted 7 of them.
I made even a video about it with photos in the post. If you missed that post check it out Here… roe deer. you hear the crunch of the snow of me walking… later the birds in the tree and at the end the deer eating.
Thank you so much. We had lovely first weeks. We started renovating the cabin even more now. So it is fun.
Hope you had lovely days too and it is not too busy.
Take care and have a wonderful week 😊
Nature is protesting, I am sure of it. The weather is strange here as well, as we are getting rain when we should not get any!
Stay safe on the sleet and ice! It sounds dangerous, I am sure food is not more important than safety.
It sounds great, you are so lucky to have experienced that! Nature is so special and wonderful.
Sorry for again the long reply, and I hope the renovation is going well.
Yes, I talked with more people about the rain down there. It is crazy…
Our driveway turned into solid ice 🧊 I made a post about it yesterday if you want to see it.
We would choose safety first. We waited u til last Friday to go shopping. Just before the roads got worse, so we made it all safe back home and we could stock up. Thanks!
No worries 😌 I understand, we are busy too.
Here we got a lot of progress, ticking boxes of things we finished. I wallpapered all day yesterday. So good to see some nice surfaces and fixed walls.
Have a wonderful week, hopefully with not too much rain.
Take care!
So sorry for again being a week! I had to participate in a PhD defense and had to read 350 pages of the PhD. It was so mind draining work.
It is crazy that snow and turn into ice and all of that. Or not the snow, but the rain. These are things my moderate climate brain cannot fathom!
I am glad that you are safe. Even on the best days, the roads are unsafe. I cannot imagine having to drive in such conditions as well on top of driving being inherently unsafe!
If one can tick boxes from the list, then that is awesome! Few people can say that. It took me a couple of weeks to read the PhD and to do normal work related stuff, so no real boxes ticked on my side, and it just shows how much time can quickly go past so fast.