by Frank Tommy | Jul 1, 2025 | What's Happening
Sometimes things don’t go as you’ve planned. After a long and slow winter in Umeå, I definitely felt that I needed a bright and uplifting spring somewhere on the road. Maybe it has become a bit of a curse for me, but I seem most at peace when I’m chasing the horizon.... 
by Frank Tommy | Mar 14, 2025 | What's Happening
Not long after my last post winter arrived in Västerbotten, the Swedish district we live in on the western side of the Gulf of Bothnia. This is the northern most arm of the Baltic sea, with Norrbotten further north on the Swedish side and with Österbotten on the... 
by Frank Tommy | Nov 5, 2024 | What's Happening
After I had arrived for the tail end of summer, it was with great anticipation that I finally again would have a taste of the Scandinavian autumn. As mentioned in the previous post, Bentley was introduced to Norwegian mountain terrain soon after arriving. In Norway... 
by Frank Tommy | Sep 5, 2024 | What's Happening
The title of this post is taken from an old Norwegian fairytale, from the collection of Asbjørnsen & Moe. It is a variant of other more ancient stories from across Eurasia. East of the sun and west of the moon is the place where the sun is eternally sinking in the... 
by Frank Tommy | Jun 30, 2024 | What's Happening
The surf and turf concept is not well known in many places around the world. It was an expression first used in American restaurants in the 1960s, when they extravagantly combined seafood and red meat. Specifically, lobster with the best fillet steak cuts. The trend... 
by Frank Tommy | Feb 18, 2024 | What's Happening
As a kid in the 1970s I still recall the reaction people had to the Jaws movies. I was 9 when Jaws 2 hit the cinemas in 1978. In Norway they were called Haisommer, ie Shark summer. A couple of years ago director Steven Spielberg stated that he “truly...