I'm off.

We're leaving for Sundsvall tomorrow morning, staying the night with my grandmother, and then on to Kesudalen on Monday. Will be back in two weeks or so - it depends on the weather. I'm going to do enormous amounts of reading, jigsaw puzzles and crosswords, and we're keeping our fingers crossed for cloudberries and chanterelles as well...



This is a vintage advertising poster for the long closed boarding house in Kesudalen - it looks 50's to me, which was when the place had it's heyday. The old owner was quite a character, apparently, they had a yearly easter masquerade to which he always dressed as a pirate captain. The house has been standing empty for as long as I can remember, slowly rusting to pieces, but his children and grandchildren have recently restored it and are now using it as a private cabin. It's a nice house, big and rambling, in a sort of alpine chalet style with a fantastic view over the valley from a big veranda at the front.

The poster is pinned up on a door in our cabin, and like most other things up there it's been there for as long as I can remember.