Western Sweden in wind and ice

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Christmas food and fire

Another successful year of Christmas sausage making!  The Swedish kind had Christmas spices and the Italian kind had traditional herbs. Mmmmmm...

White Christmas in Gothenburg

I was very lucky to have a white Christmas in Gothenburg.  Very nice to walk in the snow outside.. in contrast to  the warm food on the table and a nice fire by the Christmas tree inside.

Wulai in Taiwan

 

Taipei felt very much like somewhere in Japan, and Wulai felt like a combination of Bali and the country side of China and Japan. Interesting place... and very comfortable.

Wulai hot spring in Taiwan

I was in Wulai, Taiwan last weekend and stayed at a hot spring resort called Volando. The room was decorated in Balinese style and perfectly sized (my future master bed room). Each room had its own hot spring bath too, overlooking the matcha green hot spring river. Lovely experience... I miss the public hot spring bathhouse already that was quite entertaining, with water fall type hot spring, different jacuzzi type baths, saunas, and outside area.



Photo credit: Volando

A bowl of pedals

It happened almost all at once. The Chinese peony sadly shed all its pedals onto the floor. A spur of the moment confusing consolation piece.