Maybe I would’ve stayed in Stockholm 🤔
My week in Kalamaki in Crete, Greece
As originally posted on ndreas.eu. Now also in its full here for the WA community.
We’ve had a very good time. Seven days in the sun of Crete with a lovely apartment in Kalamaki run by a friendly guy named Giannis as our base camp. We’ve had good meals together at different restaurants almost every night and the kids have gone to sleep tired and happy. One week was perfect, one more would have acquired more activities. And the heat, oh my, I’m not built for that. It’s making me tired. But the kids loved it.
Ok, now let’s break things down a bit.
One week in Crete – here’s some rough notes on it
Went abroad. Wrote a piece about it over at Micro.Blog. Read here if you’re interested. It’s about Crete, Greece.
Drömmarna om en annan tillvaro blir mindre
Tiden går så fort numera. Det går att överblicka ett år i taget. Hösten kommer snart och till en början kommer den att vara helger på landet och sedan mörk och stressig inför julen som plötsligt är nu. Vintern lång, kanske med några helgen med skidåkning och en evig slaskperiod med TV-serier och läxor och svåra saker på jobbet. Sedan kommer våren. Först smyger den sig på. Sedan ska semester önskas och så blir det maj och sjukt mycket att göra på alla fronter och så är det skolavslutning och midsommar och så är vi här de sista dagarna i juli och allt går mot slutet igen. Dagdrömmarna var mindre intensiva den här sommaren.
Reading this old school thriller – Crumley got style
Some years ago a friend lend me a copy of the novel The last good kiss by James Crumley. It came out the same year I was born, 1978, and I had never heard of it before. The copy was in Swedish and quite new, published by Modernista, a company known for translating American classics or more niched hits. I really like The last good kiss. It’s what you could call a hard boiled crime novel, but unordinary and well written. Dark and funny. I recently found out, hadn’t bother to look it up before, that Crumley wrote a couple of other novels. I’ve gotten hold of one them: Dancing Bear. It was published in 1983 and the paper back copy I bought online from a second hand bookstore called Bokbörsen.
It’s a thriller too. A middle aged man who fought in the Korean War is working as a security guy. He’s bored and poor and is trying to stay out of trouble, but one day he gets an odd offer he can’t refuse. An old lady, who used to date his now dead father, wants to hire him to find out why a man and a woman are having a rendezvous in the park next to her house once a week, the one of them driving different cars every time. She just wants to know what that’s all about. Then all turns hell.
I like it so far. Crumley is fun reading. He’s got style.
Changed my name back to Andreas
I don’t know why I went with undreas for a while. However I’m back now with the original andreas.
Make image clickable with markdown – thanks Dino!
Thanks to Dino and his post here I now know how to use markdown to display an image in a blog post, and allow the reader to click that image to view the image in a tab.
I tried it and it works. 👇
Nice! Now I would like to know how to add some text in a caption.
Första meningen i brödtexten
Lagade snabb middag och läste ett reportage om tv-serien Upp till kamp i Filter. Satt kvar vid köksbordet efter att tonårssonen hade gått och fann att jag faktiskt öppnat pappersmagasinet som kommit med posten och därefter läst en lång text från början till slut. Jag gillade ingressen särskilt.
Och starten på brödtexten är genialisk i sin enkelhet. Ingen upprepning här inte, bara pang på.
Manusförfattaren Peter Birro:
Sedan kommer ett citat om Francis Ford Coppola och sedan är vi igång.
Trevlig läsning.
Rye drink
Bought a litre if the new Alpro Rye drink yesterday. The taste is good but I find it curios that’s it’s branded as totally Nordic. The rye is from Finland but it contains both gellan gum and acacia gum. I doubt those products are made in one of the Nordic countries. But I can be wrong. I emailed the producer to find out. I’ll let you know when I get the answer.