Author Archives: ianmacd

Today was another Icelandic jumper day. Happily, I had mine with me, so got another day’s wear out of it. We spent the entire day at Skansen, although a good chunk of the morning was spent walking over to Djurgården, … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s brief glimpse of the sun during the last vestiges of daylight proved predictive of today’s weather: blue skies and glorious sun, all day long! The temperature was sub-zero, but who cares? It was fantastic weather. This was the day … Continue reading →

What Americans call Thousand Island dressing is known in Sweden as Rhode Island dressing. That’s a conversation stopper for your next party, if ever there was one. I forgot to preface this entry by saying that the content would be … Continue reading →

Light drizzle, followed by snow, leading into a cloudy dry spell, culminating in the sun peeking through scant patches of blue at the very end of the day. That was today’s weather in a nutshell. The temperature hovered around zero … Continue reading →

In spite of not really being museum people, today we went to not one, but two. It was drizzling outside, but very mildly, so that wasn’t really the reason for staying mostly inside today. No, the two museums in question … Continue reading →