What is it like to live on a boat in winter? We get this question from time to time. Most people wonder if it is cold to live in a houseboat, or perhaps if it is damp. Or they wonder if the docks are slippery. We can promise that there is no need for us to worry! But of course, winter comes with some challenges.
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Now we have real winter in Stockholm. Finally, I say! I know not everyone agrees with me, but I like it when there is a lot of snow and real winter. Everything is wrapped in thick white snow, traffic moves slowly, people pulse forward ... and for some reason become a little more chatty than usual. Everyone wants to talk about the weather!
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Wow, already Friday again? Earlier in the week, the "snowstorm from Iceland" moved in and made it rocky here in the houseboat. A little later in the week we met the First Lady of Iceland. So the little Nordic country in the Atlantic Ocean gets to be part of our happy Friday this week!
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This year I (Helena) am really longing for snow and winter, for some reason. Right now it is dark, cold and damp outside - that is, it is absolute worst the weather. But earlier this week we actually got a taste of winter in Stockholm. Might as well enjoy it, right? And then we checked out this year's Christmas display at NK!
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Christoffer Björkwall lives in Malmö with his girlfriend and works as a web developer. So far, his life doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary, but wait until you hear about his hobbies. When Christoffer is free, he doesn't go to the Canary Islands - he goes to the USA to chase tornadoes!
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Most of the time, houseboat life feels quite ordinary, but sometimes it is still not quite "ordinary". We woke up at 04:20 yesterday morning by the alarm in the boiler room. What was it now? Well, a power cut ... We went back to sleep and hoped for the best, but when we woke up we were still without electricity. We also woke up to a day of real April weather.
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Yesterday when we woke up at the hotel during our skiing holiday in Austria, it was... even more snow! It had snowed all night, and it continued to snow most of the day. The houses here in Reith in the Alpbachtal were covered in a thick white blanket and everywhere people started shovelling to access cars and driveways. It was just a matter of putting on your coat and heading out into the winter landscape!
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Yesterday I showed pictures of our houseboat with a light covering of snow and wrote about how it is living in a houseboat in winter. Then came the real winter and struck, with snow chaos in Stockholm. We woke up with the houseboat lying at an angle in the water and it was actually quite nice to have something else to think about than, well you know ... that election.
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We've been home this weekend enjoying the sun on the deck (when we haven't been inside working on the blog - I'm muttering a lot about complicated html coding at the moment). There has also been a walk along the beautiful Hornsberg beach.
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What weather! One minute the sun is shining and we are enjoying ourselves with the patio door open. The next second it starts to pour. And then, all of a sudden, there are gusts of wind that cause the whole boat to tilt sharply to one side. It's still cold, but there are some sure signs that spring is here ...
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