New Year Funäsdalen
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  New Year 2001. 

Funäsdalen, around 700km northwest of Stockholm. 

The whole weekend, Christmas and New Year, the temperature jumped between -4C and -30C. When we arrived to Funäs it was -27C.

 

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    Preparing the New Year dinner. Everybody helped or they were very hungry!

    

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The dinner during and after the first course.

 

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Ausrine.

 

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One day after we arrived it was -28C and Ausrine and I decided to take it easy and use the car (poor thing) and drive around. The last picture shows the mountain north of Funäsdalen (the village).

 

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We took also a walk. The breathing was brisk in -28C.

 

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Then it was good with a coffee and a cognac (or whatever it was in the glass). Robert and Christer do not look too happy or ..... 

 

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    In the picture to the left it is Åsa, Åsa and Ausrine. In the picture to the right Åsa and Mats.

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Christer, Per and Robert.

  

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Our friends were more active but finally I decided to go with them up on the mountain. -17C but .....

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.... you got to sweat hard to reach the top.

 

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Then it was nice to come back to the cottage.

 

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At a hotel nearby they have a bath tub outside. :-))

 

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Mats looks happy and confident. What reason?

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The bath tub.

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Jan, Åsa, Åsa and Robert.

 

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We left and ...

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.... saw Santa's reindeers roaming around in the forest.  

Copyright Per Sundell & Ausrine Gabrenaite Sundell
Last revised: 2003-02-06