Skiing in Tandådalen, Sälen

 A new location for skiing in the Sport-week holiday with friends. This year we found an apartment in Tandådalen, Sälen, which is about 450km North-west of Stockholm. Its a 5-hour drive for us and this year it was snow covered ground all the way. We booked Saturday to Wednesday, giving us almost 5-days of skiing. The apartment overlooked the main skiing hills and was well equipped with adequate space for all 11 of us from the 3-famalies staying together. The weather changed from day to day, but was always around the -6 to -10 C and the snow was great with very little ice.

Wood clearing behind the house

 The land owners who own the woods behind our house have been clearing and thinning the woods. Some pictures and a video of them taking down the largest pine tree just inside the edge of our garden. You can see it had some damage inside at the base, so good we had this one taken down at the same time.

Winter Snow

 We had up to 32cm of snow in January this year, and cold too, often -15C.

Christmas and Mike staying with us

Christmas was again celebrated at home in Rönninge in 2025. Mike came to stay together with his helper, from Tuesday to Sunday with Christmas day falling on the Thursday. We had a great time, cooking, celebrating, playing games and opening presents together. Both Hannah and Emma came with their families for Christmas Day and dinner, so we were a full house that day. One evening we went to see Hannah holding evening mass at her church in Solna. This year we didn't get proper snow until after Mike left, but he wasn't too disappointed about that.

Christmas preparations

 Cooking, Baking and Christmas tree preparations.

Liam and Neela's Birthday in October

Birthday celebrations for Liam and Neela in October, along with Emma's family visiting for a double celebration cake. Ed and Dylan look on, waiting for a piece of cake.

Ed Sheeran in Concert

For our second concert in the same year, Caroline bought tickets for us to go and see Ed Sheeran at the Strawberry Arena in Solna. Caro and I met up at MOS after work and had something to eat before the show. Our seats were at the top of the first section in the corner and we had a pretty good view of the stage which was in the centre of the arena. Ed was great and played many of his greatest hits. He was very chatty too and danced around the huge rotating stage most of the evening. The lighting and big screens were impressive too. We really enjoyed it and managed to get on the first train home after the concert, despite the massive (60,000) crowd who also had the same idea!

Robbie Williams Live in Stockholm

Caroline fixed tickets for the two of us to see Robbie Williams Live in Stockholm at Stadion. We were lucky with the weather and had nice seats roughly in the middle of the side of the stadium. It was a great show and he was a really very good entertainer, talking between the songs and getting the audience to sing along.

Summer Holiday in Portugal

Here are some phots from this summers holiday in Portugal. Neela, Nicholas, Caroline and I spent 2-weeks in Portugal, Liam went Interrailing with his friends Peter and Henry. We spent the first week on a farmstead an hour east of Lisbon. A super nice location, surrounded by cork tree forests and rolling hills. A fantastic pool which was perfect for our first relaxing week. For the second week we moved to a small village on the coat just north of Lisbon. A chance to swim in the sea with its big waves, as well as visiting the beautiful city of Lisbon. The weather was super nice and warm most of the time.