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Friday Column: 'Svenska för Idioter,' - OR - 'Where is Palestine?'

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So, back to the old days of sitting in a foreign café and writing about it.

I’m in Wickman’s. In Enköping. It is January in Sweden and yet it’s raining today (this was written on Thursday), and about 3º plus (above zero). Skitväder. The café is on the corner of a small ‘roundy’ as Mia is apt to call them, and on the opposite corner is an appropriately named bicycle shop called Cykel Hörnan (Cycle Corner). 

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Friday Column: Matt Rutherford around the Horn

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Friday Column: Matt Rutherford around the Horn

I was going to write this morning about my first week back in Sweden. About arriving on the 5th anniversary of Mia and I first meeting in New Zealand (December 28, 2006). About her surprising me at the airport and taking me to dinner at our favorite Greek restaurant 'Tzatziki' in Uppsala. About staying in Cicci's apartment for the night so we could drink some wine with dinner.

building the archive...

Check out the published archive now and in the coming weeks. I am starting to flesh it out with .pdf files of all of my published pieces, where applicable (in some cases due to copyrights, I have to link to the website of whatever publication printed it). Anyway, the latest Yacht Essentials article I wrote is the first to go up there today, with more to come. The Matt Rutherford piece from Yachting World will be up soon. Stay tuned.

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Friday Column: Observations from the International Airport

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All of this must be finished by December 29, before we pick up Clint at that far-away Stockholm airport that I cannot remember the name of (Skavsta) and take a bus and a ferry to the Finnish island of Åland where Johanna lives and where we are attending a New Year’s Eve party only after we run a 10K in the town of Mariehamn whereby afterwards I am expected to attend a traditional Finnish sauna with Mia, Johanna and Clint, and naked.