Happy New Year 2016!

Happy New Year 2016!

Christmas bread

Christmas bread with dried fruits, nuts and seeds.

Finnish style date cake

 Finnish style date cake - an old Christmas favourite of mine ... :-))

The Christmas Table

The Christmas table

Celebrating Christmas in Finnish Viborg

Celebrating Christmas in Finnish Viborg (Viipuri) in the 1920s. At the time Viborg was the

second largest city in Finland and a thriving centre of culture.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2016!

Equestrian Lucia in Hittarp

This year Hittarp had a wonderful equestrian St. Lucia:

 

Winter is here

The view from my living room at 07.50 this morning:

 

 

The first snow

This was the view from my living  room at 5.30 this morning:

 

 

Tsar Nicholas II and his son in 1905

This is a 1905 photograph of Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his son, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich, born on 12 August 1904. Alexei perished with his parents and sisters in Yekaterinenburg in 1918.

Autumn in the forest

This is how it looked in the Pålsjö forest a couple of weeks ago:

 

 

 

 

My "musical" wine

My "musical" wine. 

A South African Mastiff

This nice South African Mastiff I met yesterday while walking in the Pålsjö forest:

 

Autumn leaves

Autumn leaves in Hittarp

Instructor and young riders in Hittarp

The Hittarp riders have very nice paths where to ride. I shot this image of young riders and their instructor late this afternoon:

Tree Sparrows

These two Tree Sparrows looked nice in my garden yesterday morning:

The Gilleleje fishing harbour

Gilleleje is the home of a great number of Danish fishing boats:

Pålsjö open-air swimming-baths in Helsingborg

This is one of my favourite recreational facilities in Helsingborg:

 

Detail of Pålsjö open-air swimming baths.

Wide angle picture of the open-air baths.

Autumnal garden pictures

Two pictures from the garden.

 

September surfing in the Sound

Last night the wind was good for surfing in the Sound:

 

 

 

 

Mein Schiff 4 on its way to Gothenburg

The brand new Mein Schiff 4 looked great tonight on its way from Copenhagen to Gothenburg:

 

Note that they are showing a movie on a giant screen on the upper deck.

 

The Hittarp horse riding club celebrated its 40th anniversary

Hittarps Ridklubb celebrated its 40th anniversary on August 22 with a great show in their new indoor riding arena:

 

The Europeade 2015 in Helsingborg - A slideshow

Here is my slideshow with pictures from the Europeade in Helsingborg:

 

The Europeade 2015 in Helsingborg

Helsingborg is now hosting the annual Europeade, which is the biggest folk culture festival in Europe. The aim of Europeade is to create European friendship though folk dance and music.

Here is a selection of dancers and musicians from the host country:

 

 

 

The PASSAGE street theatre festival in Helsingborg and Helsingør

From the PASSAGE street theatre festival:

 

 

PASSAGE is organized by Dunkers Kulturhus and Helsingør Teater. The festival is the greatest international and transnational street theatre festival in Northern Europe.
The artists in this picture are members of the Cuban  Danza Teatro Retazo group