I am often asked where I learned to cook. My response is, in addition to my mother and Swiss-born grandmother, a talented French woman named Caroline (Caro). Caro works as a psychiatric nurse in Geneva, Switzerland. When she is not working she usually throws herself into some task such as replanting all her roses, building […]
I arrived in Saltoluokta Fjällstation on a snowy day by snowmobile transport. By the end of the ten minute ride, I was covered in a light layer of snow. I was shown to my new living quarters for the next three months and set about unpacking my clothes, skis, and kitchen knives. I will be […]
I knew that Sweden was going to be expensive. Sweden taxes luxury items like alcohol, cosmetics, Ferraris, and eating out, heavily. To make matters worse the Swedish currency, called the kronor, is not the Euro, despite Sweden being in the EU since 1994. The kronor is not very big, but there are a lot of […]
