A day in the life... (Åland, Finland)

Åland

This is Åland! It's a group of islands between Sweden and Finland, belonging to Finland. Åland is demilitarized and autonomous and the main language is Swedish.

10-ish

I woke up, realised I had made plans to make this post, and hastily tried to make my bed to take a picture. My bed is kinda large for one person, but I like that. Gives me room to sleep even if my cat takes up most of the bed ^^

Breakfast!

Sandwiches with ham and some saft (idk the word in English. You mix like a juice-y thing with water and it's saft *shrug*) while browsing the internet. Normally I put any fluids on a table next to my desk, because I once spilled hot cocoa on my computer.

Heading out, 11-ish

So since it's a sunny day and summer (aka the one time of the year when people do all the stuff) my family decided we should head out to our "new" cottage (it's not actually new per se (It was built in the 1800s) but we bought it recently so it's new to us)

Here's a food store. There's a mall opposite that was built recently but I couldn't take a picture because the angle was kinda awkward.

Since it's a group of islands, there's a lot of water to be seen.

... and fields. We have a lot of farming going on too.

At the cottage!

This is a really cool birch we have nearby, I like it :)

It's not much, but it means a lot to us. We haven't always had a lot of money, when I was little my mom and I lived in a tiny apartment, so this is a huge step up ^^

The previous owners left sooo much trash out in the woods on our new lot. It's a bit sad that people often take these kinds of places for granted and don't care for them.

13-ish

Sorting all the trash at the trash station means you get really dirty hands.

But the result was worth it :) The barrels will be left because I guess someone wanted to make art out of them?

14-ish - food!

We were really hungry after carrying stuff, so we went to this place called Knallen and got some food. I would have taken a picture of it, but I was really hungry. The food was pork, potatoes and bearnaise sauce. Nothing special, but tasty all the same.

These thingies are hung on the maypoles during midsummer :)

15-ish - Heading back home

This is a nice little thing that says "Have a nice day (at) Kobbaklintar!" I've always thought it was very sweet.

Home

We were all kinda tired when we got home, so I took a quick shower and then watched some Gravity Falls (third re-watch. I love this show)

18-ish - Decided to go to the beach

I regained some energy and felt like going down to the beach (which is a 10 minute walk away) to swing on my favourite swing and listen to some new music I bought recently.

There's usually sheep here. If you follow the stone wall you reach this adorable little beach-y place (not great for swimming though also full of birds during summer). I usually go there to watch the fireworks during New Year's.

This is a beach called Nabben. Also yay! My fav swing was free!

Wee!

20-ish

Some kids came up and wanted to swing, so I headed back home and watched some TV with mom. She likes nature shows, so we watch a lot of nature shows. This here is from BBC Earth, but we have channels from Sweden, Finland and the US too. (Like Discovery and History Channel and such)

Cat tax - pirate edition