The big news here in Scandinavia is of course the Royal wedding between Mary Donaldson from Tasmania and the Crown Prince of Denmark. My dear husband's comment was "They'll have to lock up the silver now there's an Aussie in the house" Whatever does he mean? *grin*

OUR VERY OWN PRINCESS Well... I think NOT, but that was the headline in my hometown paper this morning. It seems that the Australians are overjoyed by the prospect of an Australian sitting on the Danish throne. And from what my Aussie friends based in Denmark tell me, the Danes are delighted to have Mary there as well. I really hope that fairytale will have the "They lived happily ever after" ending.

Fellow AAer, Stewie was there and wrote a great report in his What wedding? article. I think it's so romantic, especially as it happened in the land of Hans Christian Anderson. I hope she has a wonderful life with him.

This photo was taken yesterday evening by our good friend Lennart. He and his wife Anna were walking in the woods near their home in Upplands-Väsby and came across a family who were grilling by the shores of Mälaren. As Lennart is a real fire lover, he waited until they left, then popped some brush (quite a lot of it by the looks of things!) on the dying embers and made a nice fire that they sat by and watched the sun go down. What a beautiful picture of peace and serenity. And one of the many images I love about Sweden.

In the "It's a small world" category.... I got a letter from an Aussie girl that had sent me countless emails about coming to Sweden. This was over a year ago - she was coming for a 6 month contract with Siemens and was scared about a lot of things. Well, over a year later, she is STILL in Sweden and has met a guy. And how freaky is this. Her boyfriend is the younger son of one of Lars-Göran's closest friends. And they keep their boat down here in Nynäshamn (L-G helped arrange that). And (even better!) she has a packet of Tim-Tams for me to say thankyou for all of my help. So she'll be coming down to deliver them. So that is a visit I'm anxiously waiting for :)

Today it was the day that foreign sailing boats started appearing in our guest harbour. Usually it's the Dutch and German boats that are here first but not THIS year! This time it was a lovely ketch from Littlehampton in England



And more surprisingly, a small boat that has come all the way from Lunenburg, Novia Scotia in Canada - a 28 foot boat called I SHOULDN´D



It's always so exciting to see long-distance travellers.