Herring lunch, misery day and midsummer weekend

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This week we have had time for both the traditional herring lunch among the houseboat neighbours and a miserable day when everything went wrong. We have also (finally) managed to roll the motorhome to a campsite on the coast.

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Student celebrations and herring lunch

Last weekend there were a lot of celebrations for us. On Friday we celebrated my (Helena's) one nephew who graduated. On Saturday it was time for the annual herring lunch on the pier with the neighbours. The herring lunch starts as it sounds - with herring lunch - and then usually "degenerates" into a barbecue dinner and late hanging out, or dancing on the piers. Always nice!

Day of misery - when everything goes wrong

If last weekend was nice, yesterday was a miserable day, from start to finish. The plan was that we would finalise some work with the web shops in the morning, and then in peace and quiet roll towards a campsite to celebrate midsummer. Maybe that's not how it turned out ...

It all started when our printer broke and we had to buy a new one. The new printer (a laser printer) printed messy, which we found out too late, so we destroyed a lot of important stuff with paint splatters. Not fun! Later (after trips to the shop and conversations with the manufacturers) we realised that we had set the printer up wrong.

In the end, we still packed everything we wanted to bring, loaded a trolley and went out to the motorhome. Then it didn't work to open the motorhome with the alarm! We didn't dare open it with the key, because we were afraid of setting off the alarm. Was the battery old perhaps? We had to roll the packing back to the houseboat, load the bikes and go and buy a new battery.

What about now? No, we still couldn't open ... and eventually we figured out the problem. Peter had forgotten to switch off the extra lights on the outside of the motorhome and it had simply discharged, and wouldn't start.

Peter got the battery going by using jumper cables from the habitation battery. Finally, this problem was solved. Surely nothing more could go wrong? Since all the trouble took so long, we didn't arrive at the campsite until 11pm. When we went to turn on the lights inside, the lights on the ceiling and above the windows suddenly didn't work. So, Happy Friday in a dark and cosy motorhome? Or, after rain comes sunshine?

Travel advisory for 10 countries to be lifted soon

It is also worth mentioning that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has now announced that the advice against travel to a total of ten countries will be lifted on 30 June (Belgium, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Croatia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland and Spain.) We are in no hurry to go abroad, but this is perhaps a step in the right direction.

Best this week

The best thing this week is that we got our first products for the web shop. Very nice! And of course all the beautiful summer evenings. What has been the best part of your week?

The week ahead

We hope to enjoy Swedish summer, midsummer, camping and nature. There will of course also be reports about this here on the blog. Now we wish you a really nice midsummer evening!

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