{"id":667,"date":"2008-08-16T12:50:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2008\/08\/16\/catching-up\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T12:51:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T12:51:35","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2008\/08\/16\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that since moving to Sweden updates here have been few and far between.  I think it&#8217;s mostly because there&#8217;s not so much to tell people about, life in Sweden is fairly similar to life anywhere else in Europe\/North America.<\/p>\n<p>Today, while I&#8217;m doing laundry, I&#8217;m making an effort to catch up a bit.  Later on there will be an entry about my weekend in Stockholm at the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>For now, here are some pictures from a hiking\/camping trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekopark.se\/default____4885.aspx\">Omberg eco-park<\/a> a few weekends ago.  Lake V\u00e4ttern is amazingly clear, apparently it&#8217;s safe to drink almost everywhere.  Even in the harbour at Borghamn it was clean and free of the usual oily scum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/Forest_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/Forest_t.jpg\" title=\"Path through the forest in Omberg eco-park.\" alt=\"A narrow path leads through a dark coniferous forest, shafts of light shine down through gaps in the foliage.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/Vattern1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/Vattern1_t.jpg\" title=\"Looking west across Lake V\u00e4ttern from Omberg eco-park.\" alt=\"View across a large lake, framed by treetops in the foreground.  On the far side are low hills and above them a clear blue sky.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/BorghamnHostel_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/BorghamnHostel_t.jpg\" title=\"Part of the youth hostel in Borghamn.\" alt=\"An old two-storey building in gardens.  In the foreground are a sunlit wooden bench and table.\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/FieldsAndFarmBorghamn_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Sweden\/Ostergotland\/Omberg\/July08\/FieldsAndFarmBorghamn_t.jpg\" title=\"Fields and a farmhouse on the edge of Borghamn.\" alt=\"Fields of golden crops stretch away from the camera, divided in the middle by a hedge with a single tree.  In the background red-painted farm buildings sit among trees.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that since moving to Sweden updates here have been few and far between. I think it&#8217;s mostly because there&#8217;s not so much to tell people about, life in Sweden is fairly similar to life anywhere else in Europe\/North America. Today, while I&#8217;m doing laundry, I&#8217;m making an effort to catch up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweden","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}