Category: Day by Day

Opticians..

Made it to the optician’s before they closed 🙂

“Yes?”

“I broke my glasses…”

“I see. What is your name?”

“Jesse”

She wrote Jessie on a scrap of paper.

“Ok.I will mend them until tomorrow at 10 o’clock. Goodbye.” She took the pieces of glasses and the paper and disappeared into the back of the shop.

Not a lot I can say to that.

Especially since she’s the only optician in the vicinity.

Looks like I’m going to have a 25km joyride in the morning 🙂

Wild camping

You know, I could get used to this wild camping malarkey..

Look at this:

“You can use the toilet..”
“..and the kitchen..”
“..have a good night!”

My hostess seems to be really well prepared for unprepared guests 😉

My brother isn’t convinced:

Sitting here with my roast beef and stuffed peppers, my powerbanks charging in the background, I think I have to agree…

..it is gloriously civilised camping 🙂

Getting lucky

No one should be this lucky, but I am SOO glad that I am 🙂

Less than 3km after I set off to ‘anywhere’ I found a farm.

I asked if I could stay and they said I could.

Turns out they have 4 rental properties and are inundated with guests but have a freshly mown orchard I can sleep on.

Wheee!!

And here I am.

And it’s early enough that putting the tent up in sunglasses isn’t a problem..

There’s also a loo and a kitchen…and kitchens mean plugs and plugs mean electricity for powerbanks and laptops 🙂

Oh man, do I have it good 🙂

Shopping!

Going shopping hungry..

Found (= cycled past) a supermarket (ICA) here in Borrby and remembered that I REALLY need a toothbrush – there’s a limit to what chewing gum can achieve – so stopped and parked the bike.

There’s the obligatory bottle of hand disinfectant dispenser inside the door, but no compulsory masks or trolleys.

So. Toothbrushes

I aimed for this sort because they come with a case for the bristley bit..

Then I noticed they all have different pictures on the handles 😲🤭

Crazy.

Of course I had to look at them all…

Mine 🙂

The bluetit brush had a tiny head.. The one with bees was nice but I’d have had to dig quite a long way back. And the robin’s good too 🙂

Assorted other pictures

Jag äter en fisk! 🤯

..I’m having fish for lunch! (lit. “I’m eating a fish”)

I’m at the restaurant at the end of the World southernmost point of Sweden and they’re selling the kind of fish they only sell in this season (do fish have seasons??) and I didn’t buy ice cream, so it seemed like a good idea.

I have no idea what the menu says:

Actually, that’s a lie. I have gathered quite a lot of words and I’m pretty good at guessing. I can read things like ‘drinks’ and ‘sandwiches’ and ‘children’s menu’ and ‘hot meals’ and ‘baguette’ and ‘hamburger’ and ‘with chips’ or ‘with bread’. I can even read ‘smoked’ and ‘salmon’ and guess at ‘mackerel’ and ‘potatoes’ and ‘salad’. What I can’t read so well are the other kinds of fish or what’s been done to them. And I don’t know enough things to know if I like them even if I could read it. And what kind of sauce is sauce??

And I didn’t fancy the sound of ‘3 kinds of salmon’ or the look of some of the things people were eating.

But.

There was something that some people were eating that looked pretty good, so I went and asked for it in my best restaurant English 😉

“This one? Like fish&chips?” She smiled.

“Yup, please?” I smiled back.

Job done. I took the tray she handed me and found a table to sit at.

(Hah! As if life’s that easy. 😅

First the fork slid off the tray as I reached for my bike. Then everything else fell off as I bent down for the fork. Then the bike threatened to fall over. Arg. I gave up on the bike, took the computer off the front and went to the nearest table with space for the bike and sat down. Then I got back up and collected the bike, manoeuvring it slowly into position.)

Anyway.

The timer bleeps when your food’s ready to collect

Look at this!

Easily my best fish ever. And the batter! Ein Traum 🙂

Perfection. And no bones. 🙂

There was a steady stream of people buying lunch,

eating lunch,

Socially distanced eating..

and clearing up after lunch,

A bin each for food, paper plates, drinks cans, some things I’ve forgotten and a rack for bottles as well as a space for trays.

No masks, no contact data, no officious people. Just happy well-fed people.

Admittedly it’s summer and it’s outdoors and warm and sunny, and granted, I haven’t eaten out much in a while, still feels good though.

And the fish was great 🙂