Visiting Tjolöholms Slott

This is the sea at the back of the castle. Lovely!

....And Relax!

Well that's it for four weeks. Today is the first day of our vacation, and I "celebrated" last night by broadcasting an extra-long show on the BBB which seemed to go down well. We're off to England next Monday for 9 days, seeing the folks which includes a big family meal (about 20 of us) on Friday night.

We're also going to see the old Chortles Gang, who I haven't seen for a long time either. That's the name for our gang of friends who have hung around for a number of years. It's getting more difficult now that I live in Sweden, but we still try and meet up at least once a year. Of course, it will involve going out for an Indian meal.

Good Indian meals are difficult to find in Sweden - for an English person anyway. Most Swedes are not accustomed to very strong spices, so a typical Indian restaurant in Sweden wouldn't have, for example, a madras or biryani on the menu. They do have vindaloo, but it's not head-exploding hot like the English counterpart. In fact, that's usually what I choose as it's the spiciest I can find around here.

That reminds me of a story when Linda was still living in Trollhättan. We went to the local Indian restaurant there, and Linda asked for an English-style madras, to which the owner agreed and asked me in English where I used to live. When I told him it was Leicester, he told me that it was there that he came from, and moved to Sweden 19 years ago. Small world! Oh, and he made a perfect madras by the way. Pity we live an hour away now.