alana goes away

Gamla Stan We stumbled upon Brazil day From our room in the Gustav The Vasa Picnic 47 Death Island Bravo! Sweet combo there What's this mum? Bunny! Sweden! Yep, Stockholm excursion. We made plans to go here pretty much as soon as we got to London, with only the smallest of persuasive talks from Guy to get the ball rolling. We get into Västerås airport and get a bus (1.5 hours of scenic Swedish counrtyside ) into Stockholm city, and get down to the area called Slussen, on the island Södermalm and the boat we have to stay in. The Gustav af Klint, the backpackers boat with a bar on top and musty bathrooms down below. We get sorted into our room – I call bottom bunk as I’m doubting my skills at not falling to a painful awakening, it is a boat after all – and we head up top for a beer, which was a local called Spendrups. And it was good.  Now it was Sam’s birthday a few weeks ago, and I’d given him a (SWEET AS) towel and some fu...

I re-read the post below and found I'd accidentally deleted the bit about who and what had the TAILS?!?! It was sheep, it has been fixed, if anyone was getting a bit confused at what the heck I was on about. ALSO ALSO AND AND AND! My darling and beautiful friendest of friends Emma is getting hitched in October, and WOOOHOOO I do get to go, be a bridesmaid, and just YAY-holy-wowza-imna go supersayan now. So she's pretty much having the wedding of my dreams by the sounds of things, and she recently sent us the link to our one of a kind, mismatched floral dresses she had made for the occaaaaasion. HECK YES! I almost went and posted a photo and a link and blah blah, but then realised they're secret so gosh lucky me or I'd be un-invited. There will be photos, plenty I'm sure, as they are just so beauuuutiful and pretty and awesome ooooooooooooo so exciting. Anyway. Enough about that. Sweden this weekend!

Look mum, me teaching the childersss about gunneras, or rather 'dinosaur plants' hahaha Molly's got the camera... Colonsay bookshop SLEEP IN! Yuss. Well enjoyed. So I probably want to live here forever. It may be chilly but it is awesome. After a delicious homemade glazed ham outdoor lunch feast, I set off on a bike to do some exploring. I was wrong the other day about the road, its actually a circle with little branches coming off, and today I went halfway round that circle. It took a while, as I haven’t really been biking in a while (tho I do have the green ‘tiger’ waiting for me back in London, yee-haw, my bikes brand is tiger! Anywho...) and also because I stopped a few times to go walking or looking or to take a photo. Something funny about the sheep around here...most of them have tails! WHAAAT?! Yep, they’ve got tails. I was looking into a field thinking, something is different about them...TAILS, that's what. So I carried on along to the litt...