On Wednesday in Sevilla it was 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit); in Sweden today it is 9 C (48 F). No matter as I have both warm and cold clothes with me and it's great to be with family. Ryan Air was again an easy flight, but it is hard to read your book with so many commercial interruptions by their sales force, I mean flight attendants. Michael, Andrea and my niece and nephew Sara and David all picked me up at the airport. We went downtown to explore the city with lunch, a train ride around the historic core, a long walk down a wide allee, then a drive by Michael and Andrea's past homes. It's a family tradition to drive by our old houses as the Edstroms love memory lane and houses. Sunday afternoons my parents would drive through beautiful neighborhoods with all six of us in the back of the stationwagon, commenting on the architecture.
May 1st in Sweden is the big left Socialist Day, for lack of a better explanation. There was lots of RED everywhere (commie colors?) and speeches that discussed taking better care of poverty in Sweden. Michael says that their current government is right wing, which is still left of the Kennedys.
Gothenburg is a port town with a river through the middle. The architecture includes many copper roofs which sprinkle the landscape in turquoise shades. Spring is just starting here with most trees still deciduous, but bulbs are up.
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