As the snow was slowly receding even in Northern Sweden, I had to accept that even the best times in life will come to an end at some point and once again I found myself on the platform at the railway station in Sundsvall waiting for the train to Stockholm….. A couple of days later …
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12 kilometers to Blåhammar
It is the 24th of February and I am waking up to the news that Russian troops have started to invade Ukraine. At the end of my second stay in Sundsvall I had taken a few days off to travel to Åre, the country’s most famous alpine skiing destination, to enjoy both downhill and cross …
Guernica
Those of you who are following my FB or my Instagram posts might have noticed that I only very rarely or virtually never change my profile image. However, the time has come to do it now after I have thought over the last few days about a painting that will soon be over a hundred …
Chasing the Northern Lights
When waking up in the morning, it has become a habit for me to check two APPs on my phone: The first is the Weather APP, to find out how cold it will be today – as a general rule: the colder the better – because it not only preserves the snow with all the …
Lunch at Hotel Knaust
It is June 1888 and the city of Sundsvall is laying in ashes…….again…… To be precise this is now the fourth time since the Russian Army caused the first fire in 1721. This time an accident was to blame – a spark from a passing steam boat had set a local brewery alight and the …
Nightshift
It is 3:45 pm and the sun has been setting already an hour ago….what better thing to do now, than starting another nightshift in the North?…. A brief glimpse at the car park of the clinic while finishing an evening run had informed me already that it will be busy tonight…. Following a shower and …
Before the snow arrived….
Never work in a location you don’t like !……. Not often enough did I follow this maxim, but luckily I have always been wise enough to make a move before settling permanently for a poor compromise. There are just too many hours in the day when you are not working and you owe it to …
A new clinic, a new team and….a new car (or something like that….)
Once again I am finding myself in new surroundings – the clinic in a recently converted industrial building houses some 60 staff, which includes this time some colleagues from Portugal. In addition to this some German colleagues are occasionally drafted in from Östersund to help out. I find it interesting to observe the dynamic of …
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Arrival in Norrland
While in my dreams still on the descend from Triglav, I am waking up just in time for the train’s arrival in Sundsvall. Not to get off here would have resulted in a time consuming detour, as the next stop would have been Östersund – 200 km to the West…. Hauling my considerable luggage down …
Triglav
” So, tell me about Triglav.” I said to Neca Jerkovic, who was living on a sailing boat in the Marina of Portoroz, while my skin was drying after a swim in the Mediterranian Sea, “I want to be up there by tomorrow afternoon….”. This probably requires a bit of background information…. Triglav with nearly …
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