Real Mexican food! Last night my colleagues met for a Mexican cookery evening. One of the colleagues is of Mexican origin and had brought "real" Mexican recipes, not Santa Maria's texmex packages, but things that "ordinary Mexicans" usually eat. Interesting of course, and so it became really really good!
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We've been working in the boiler room every night, and now our (extra) wardrobe is almost complete! On the right side we have built shoe shelves, and on the left side we have built shelves with drawers from Granit. We now store everything from tablecloths and fur hats to workout gear and jewellery.
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Lonely Planet's list of the top 10 countries to visit in 2014 includes the following interesting points Sweden comes in fourth place! They thank the author Stieg Larsson for putting Sweden on the map, helping to portray the country as ... cold, beautiful and a bit scary. They also mention Swedish food, with ingredients such as seafood, berries, herbs and local cheeses.
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Many motorhomers are now fleeing the autumn and the cold here in the north, and rolling south to spend the winter somewhere around the Mediterranean. Some are already in place at more southern latitudes, and we have to admit that it doesn't sound too bad. If you want to get a taste of the feeling, you can follow some of the motorhome drivers who are blogging during the winter.
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Dream Heart, by Cecilia Samartin, is a moving and beautiful story from Cuba. It follows two cousins, Nora and Alicia, who grow up together in Cuba in the 1950s. They live a sheltered and privileged existence, with the black maid Beba and the Catholic nuns at school. When Castro comes to power, their lives are turned upside down.
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On 2 October this year, 300 children were given a slightly different experience by KLM: they were invited to a spectacular preview of the new Disney film Planes. What was a bit special was that the preview was not in a cinema - but in an aeroplane!
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Now I have to write about something that has been on my mind for a while. Quite often, when I read other people's blogs, I see that under an image it says "image borrowed from the web" or "image borrowed from Google". I don't want to be grumpy, but "the web" is a very vague place and Google is a search engine. Any image that you or I put on the internet can be found via Google. But that doesn't mean Google owns the image.
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Do you have winter tyres for your motorhome? If you plan to use your motorhome this winter, it's almost time to change to winter tyres. Between 1 December and 31 March, special tyres are required for winter road conditions and there are new rules for motorhomes with a total weight of more than 3.5 tonnes.
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Once, several years ago, we visited a place in Tanzania called Tanga. It was a mistake that we ended up there, but we will never forget it. It started with the unrest during the 2007 elections in Kenya. We fled by taxi and crossed the border on foot. Then we jumped on a local bus.
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In Ystads Allehanda you can read that Ystad wants to invest in motorhome tourists. They have calculated that during the high season they are visited by about 40 motorhomes per night and Marie Holmström, tourism strategist in Ystad, has been given the task of seeing how they can attract even more. She believes that this is a high-spending target group that they don't want to miss out on.
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