Back home in Gotland..

..after one month´s of absence, I found that my entire basement has been filled with water. Due to heavy rains in Gotland this summer, the ground has been thoroughly saturated and many basement valves are spilling over..I am not he only one. It smells like a mushroom patch down below! I will just hope for better weather and keep the doors open for the rest of the summer and hope that it will do the trick!
Meanwhile, my sister and I receive a bunch of great guests from the mainland - some of whom arrived on magnificent Harley Davidsons - and that called for a celebration like a dinner party at Ihrebaden by the long white beach in northern Gotland last night!
While monsterous mosquitoes were devouring us, we were devouring salmon and roasted Gotland lamb with some sparkling for starters.. mmm..

Thalia in Sandhamn!

Thalia - a true water freak.. 

Thalia on her very first visit to Sweden! She spent a few weeks resting and "partying" in the lovely Stockholm archipelago after her long trip Washington-Paris-Naples-Capri-Naples-Paris-Stockholm. In Sandhamn she stayed in her grandmother´s house in Trouville . And she seemed to just love it! Here she is leafing through the Swedish daily papers with her father Malcolm in granma´s garden. Thalia is now 10 months old and just about to walk..

Capri revisited:

BBC today reports the following as a one of the main headlines:

A Swedish couple in search of the isle of Capri drove to Carpi, an industrial town in northern Italy, because they misspelt the name in their car's GPS. 

Italian officials say the couple asked at Carpi's tourist office where they could find Capri's famous Blue Grotto.The car's sat nav system had sent them 650km (400 miles) off course to Carpi. "Capri is an island. They did not even wonder why they didn't cross any bridge or take any boat," said a bemused tourism official in Carpi. Once they realised their mistake, the couple got back in their car and headed south, the official added.

Another "Die dumme Schweden" story is getting a nice global coverage!

PS: It wasn´t me!! DS

One early morning..

..my sister and I steal away from the wedding buzz and board the chair lift (at 8 Euro) to Monte Solaro from Anacapri. Monte Solaro is the highest part of Capri, towering 589 meters above sea level, and boasting a 360° panorama of the island of Capri with a wonderful view of the Faraglioni, the Amalfi and Sorrento coastlines and the Marina Piccola and the Gulf of Naples..
You have to kick off your sandals and carry them in your hand not to lose them during the long trip up the mountain. The hills below under the cable trail are studded with hats and lost sandals..
The bare feet shown here are mine!

Climbing up, up and away. Anacapri below.

Terraces and my sister in the front chair. She yells to me that she once had to jump from a cable chair in the snowy Alps when she got stuck many years ago when she was a ski instructor in Austria. Great! I yell back. Not easily scared by little sisters!Hideous burial shrines are built below on the slopes.
Here a spooky mannequin is neatly dressed (in the clothes of the deceased?)

When we arrive at the top, a heavy mist shrouds the Faraglioni rocks below at Marina Piccola.

As we devour one of the most wonderful ice sorbets - gelati di limoni- you can imagine, the mist gradually give way and and we get our money´s worth of sighting. The sun breaks through and the butterflies roams and beacons among the flowers of the mountain. Even the smells of the typical mountain bush is now released and I can smell the scent of thyme and oregano of the Mediterranian mixing with the strong Italian coffee from the small bar here on the very peak of Capri..
The Faraglioni. Photo from the following clear day´s boat trip around the island.
The newly weds (to the left) with some of the wedding guests have just been passing through the hole of the famous Faraglioni rock. Anders - Sweden´s ambassador in Rome and now the bride´s father-in-law - is donning the white Borsalino to the right .

Colors of Capri..

..as in Lina´s wedding bouquet..or in the Grotta Azzurra..or..

The lady above:
"Buurrrrp. Too much of that great Capriense wine last night!
I should have remember what happened a similar night about 9 months ago..
Why do we never learn!?"

Pontus & Lina´s wedding

The view from the location of the marriage act. Capri´s Marina Grande down below.

Part of the marriage act at San Michele, Capri.The 65 guests start to arrive at the wedding dinner..
Lina´s Papa Dag and the very first speech of many..A beautiful sunset over the Mediterreanean..
The wedding cake - La Torta Nuziale.

Now they are married!

Wedding dinner, just before sunset at San Michele.

Lina and Pontus on the Mediterranean the day
after their beautiful wedding
at Capri´s San Michele!