Holidays

We recently had a weekend Swedish friends at their summer house in Ostergotland. Glorious weather, nature, warm lakes to swim in and simple good food was the order for the few days. Lasse, my pal of 35 years, and his family had just completed the first week of their 7/8 weeks stay at the summer house and were starting to look relaxed (and tanned). We belted back to a cool and fog bound Edinburgh on the Monday. Does Swedish society have something to tell us about the need to take holidays seriously. I need to plan my extended break now!

Summer in the city

27C in Edinburgh is unusual. Working in the heat is equally unusual. When the temperature is like this we enjoy it. Shorts and T shirts is the dress code. The torrential downpours that intersperse the hot sun have caught out families relaxing in the Meadows (the huge park by our office). Yesterday, soaked to the skin parents pushed their kids in buggies homeward. One smiling dad shouted out it's like being in the tropics. It is not often you can say that about Edinburgh!