Sandhammaren and Mälarhusen beaches (bathing)

So after being to Simrishamn I was curious of one of the best beaches in Sweden. According to a local touristpaper, it is the best in the world, yea right (not quite, but nice).

I got there a little late in the evening. The beach name is Sandhammaren (Sandhammer in english).

Near the parking lot this Pic is on a board. For guidance. Apparently cows can seen.



Heading for the Baltic Sea view (water), this beach is located as far south east of Sweden as you can be.



A bit cold in the water, but anyywaay.. I like walking with sand between my feets (no matter what)

Almost empty, no sign of people.. the day people has gone home. The summer weather was really bad this year (2012)

Walking toward the Mälarhusen, the next "beach", north of Sandhammaren. A nice beach! About 3 kilometers away from Sandhammaren.

Here I found a walkable trail to Vitemölla, 42 km. BUT it was late, and I Needed the bike for that. Or is it just a trail to the flag pole? No one knows.

Here is Mälarhusen badplats (Mälar (a lake nere my hometown) houses bathing)

Well it is a nice beach, but the time was ticking so I had to move on..

Bye

Next on the trip: Simrishamn

Okey, after bath (Röroms beach) I got in the car and drove to Simrishamn, (I am aiming for Ystad now).




I was hungry so I thought about eating here, Glada Räkan Restaurant (Simrishamn)




 But No.. I got some kebab food instead. Eating in the car. The foodplace didn´t take Visa card so I had to pay cash..




After eating I took a walk (I like walking), checking tha place out! I was looking for some nice beaches..




And I found a small beach in the middle of the town. But.. I was just me and the birds. Not so nice weather.. Judge for your self. Nice with a town beach, huh?



I continued and found a toilett in this house. Well after that I was ready to leave Simrishamn. Nice town but nothing special (if you ask me). The next thing on the road trip was checking out "the world biggest sandbox" according to a Ystad magazine.. Sandhammaren, to be continued..

A week of change

What a week, far from my "normal life"..

• Stomach flu, really stomach ache, which resulted in me not being able to work out and I was home from work. You only wish one thing when you are ill (guess what). Prioritize the health.

• My stepfather had a stroke. I got a call friday night. The first description was that he was paralyzed on one side! That he did not recognize the people and did not know where he was. Thankfully he quickly became better and is now "in the game" again. A strong reminder that life is fragile and should be taken care of!

My emotional life has thus been extremely "worried" this week.

• I have decluttered the "like crazy."

Many boxes of electronics and five bicycles have been delivered to Återbruket (re-use), of which I received the following question "Are you going to throw that bike it in there!?" By one of the workers there.

- Well this crap must go. It's been standing too long.

Everyone suggest that I would sell it.. (Yes I could.. but..I do not think that I have time to try to sell "crap", it will take too loooong (it is to much stuff), my time on this earth is limitied. I have already done many ads of stuff for sale (and it seems like more work than it is worth honostly). Its hard to sell stuff (and get something payed for it)! And the bike had a flat tire (and some broken spokes) so I did not want to donate a broken bike to the Brödet och Fiskarna (“Bread and the fishes”) (an organization here in Sweden that support projects for the poor in the world.)

Despite very cleansing there is little progression, it is barely visible (not quite true, you can see a tiny bit of change anyway). Sometimes it feels impossible due. of all the stuff I collected all my life, but I know that with small steps in the right direction, I will "get to the finish.", and be more freer.


Well that’s all for now, gotta continue with the “deown” stuff, bye.

Compressor fridge, freezer keeping your food cold. My investigation.

Okey, I thought I should write a post about keeping food cold (on the road).

Let me tell you something pandero (from a movie), I own an electric fridge from Waeco. However it has not a compressor, but instead uses a peltier element “doing the cooling”. This box works, but is COMSUMES to much power!! Way to much. I have used it on one summer trip for two days, that’s it! The rest of the time It has been left at home! Useless piece of #@£! (piip)

The little thing consumes about 3 ampere (of course 12 volt direct current). This empties my car battery really fast. I can run the fridge say 5-7 hour and the car will (at best) perhaps manage to start (Yes only one battery, the starter battery). If I run the fridge longer the car won’t start. So every 5-6 hour I have to start the engine on the car and run it about an hour to recharge it somewhat. Really annoying!

Well, as you can imagine, this situation does not work for me! So what to do? I find no other solution but to replace the fridge with a model that consumes a lot less current.  The only choices for me are compressor models (I won’t go into why I have come to this conclusion).

Ok, I know we are trying to keep thing simply right (minimalism and so on…). So is it really necessary to have a fridge?

-          No, I have managed fine without any fridge on my small road trips that I have done.

BUT I do miss it sometime.. I do like milk to my coffee, sure, you can buy McDonalds’ coffee (but the taste wary a lot, last time I had coffee in McD it tasted awful), and McDonalds can’t be found everywhere (waking up with a nice scenery in front of the ocean).

And I also like butter and a good sandwich. Cold water is also nice, a cold beer,  yoghurt for breakfast and  the banana will last longer and so on.  Yap.. Cold food has a place in my heart.

So let us just say that keeping food cold is a luxury, and you have to decide if it is worth it to you.

So what’s the most current consumption friendly fridge/freeze I could find? Well.. Isotherm stands out.

At about 0,7 ampere it will last about 3-4 times longer than my presently Waeco (peltier). Quite a big difference, don’t ya think?

Here are some pictures in Swedish (but I guess you smart people can figure it out). An Isotherm model with a Danish Danfoss compressor seems to be what I am after..  BOOM.



Waeco Coolfreeze, to much current.. not for me.



Isotherm TB32 only 0,7 A on average. NOT BAD. Test Winner.



Isotherm current consumption, dimension and the well known Danfoss BD35F compressor



Next on the tripp: Karlskrona

Okey, so they told me that I wasn't getting any younger so I had to move on..

Beeing close to the town of Karlskrona I turned the wheel toward what I thought was a "military" town. And yes it was.

Arriving to Karlskrona, driving around in the town, checking the place out. Doing tha chochka chockha?

Found a parking lot and left the car, took the bike for a ride and found a beach and a jump tower ( I always looks for beaches, trying to find the best beaches, always). The weather was a bit windy and no volks..

Continued, went back to the car and continued into the camping site nearby. Here I found the beach of Karlskrona Camping.

I continued to the town and found some canons? What has happened here? What are they protecting? Is there gold in this building??! Have this canons been on a boat or what? YES, the questions was popping up in my mind and never seemed to stop.

The mind had to cool of so I toke myself to the water, and found this nice scenery..

I also found a big boat, a coast guard boat.

Going further I found a marine museum, nice, I had to check it out!

Here is a military vessel and i bit further down an older sailing ship.

Aboard the sailing boat. I felt like climbing the ropes, but I was not so sure if that would have been appreciated.. so I stayed put.

So I left and went uphill past this house.

and found a begger, He is a stature of Rosenbom, who was poor and begged for money. He died by getting so cold and frozen one winternight. His arm was straight and in a begging position when the people found him dead. Now symbolizing that we should help the poor..

I weht looking for a nice place to stay the night. Here is the payable parking place near the harbor, quite a lot of re-creative vehicles... but I didn't like the place, a bit to crowd y for me to sleep here (I thought).

I moved on and found this big object. A big truck? My guess: a vessel loader... Don't know :)

After a couple of hours inspecting the town of Karlskrona I went back to the camping, left the bike and toke a walk. This nice white "ducks" (my vocabular is limited as you might have noticed). They looked so free and happy.

After this I returned to my car and loaded the bicycle on the back of the Kia, and moved on, I didn't want to sleep in Karlskrona, I didn't feel at home, didnt find a good sleeping-spot, I had to move on.. I was aiming for Ystad again.

Bye, 

Being normal and do what most people do, or....

This post is an response to Christines Defying Normal post, that you can find here.

I am doing my best writing in english... :)

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Excellent post!
I know what you mean. I feel the same.

During my life I have tried several different jobs, but I always felt like something was wrong. I had much more fun, and was happier when I had “free time” and nobody could /can say when I should be jumping or whatever (no boss). Of course there has been good times in the job also. And I have learned a lot from wiser people and so on.
BUT I have always been the happiest when I have lived simple and had the ability to do whatever I want, being free and enjoying the simple things in life.

Working like a pay slave?  Yes I also thought that is just the way life is supposed to be, UNTIL I found some great books (pointing me in some “not normal” direction), and some people on the Internet that felt the same as I.
Thanks for that!

Some people that I have been working with have told me that they think that it is nicer to be on the job then at home! Children running around wild, feeding them, being a taxi driver for the kids, and a “sweetheart” at home that bosses them around or goes shopping for all excess money. “Go out and make money so we can pay the mortgage”.. It is nothing wrong with that but it is not the kind of life I seek.

When you have lived the “good life” (a free life in my case) you always want that I guess.. The difference in output is how we play our life.. The are of course some benefits and cons that follow by each choice, but only you can decide what suits you.

And I know it is possible to be more free. I / you just have to find the way (yes.. perhaps easier said than done). It is not done over a night.