Absolut Vodka, Apples and Fish Soup.

Last week we went over to the other side of Skåne (Scania) to visit friends. The area is called Österlen and is incredibly pretty, full of picturesque red-painted wooden houses or half-timbered, sometimes thatched cottages. It was a wonderful summersday when we drove from Helsingborg and this was Sweden at its summertime best.

We were making for a small village called Kivik which lies in the centre of the apple growing district. Needless to say, one of its most famous products is cider. Not far from Kivik is Åhus, the birthplace of Absolut Vodka. And in Kivik itself is a very well-known restaurant called Buhres, which does a fish soup to die for.

All three things we managed to consume in our overnight stay when we weren´t yapping our heads off to catch up on the 4 year´s absence since our last visit. A final walk round the centre of the village took us past the house where the author Fritiof Nilsson Piraten lived. His books cover a period from the 1930s till the 1970s and have become Swedish classics.

It reminded me that I haven´t written anything at all since we came on holiday. I must shape up for September when I go back to the Torrevieja Writers´Group!