Jag tillbringade mina barndomssomrar hos farmor och farfar i en liten by i norra Ångermanland som heter Backe. Varje sommar åker jag dit under några dagar och i år sammanföll det med Fjällsjömarknaden, Backes årliga sommarmarknad. Fint väder och mer folk än vad bilderna visar.
Vissa ställen är så vackra utan att nån vet om det. Backe ligger så vackert mellan Fjällsjöälven och Backsjön och har ca 1000 invånare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xUzFUJ9RaU&feature=related
SvaraRaderaSå här pratar man i Ångermanland, min barndoms dialekt
It looks like a great market Ulf. And the summer place on the lake looks quite serene.
SvaraRaderaMy grandparents use to live there and I spent all my summer in Backe as a child, so it´s a bit like memory lane to me.
SvaraRaderaIt looks like a great place to have been as a child. I like the boat, a lot, it kind of looks like a viking ship, as a kid I would have had great fun with that. For sailing adventures I had to tie oiece of sheet to a couple of sticks and put them in the ground. Not much water where I grew up.
SvaraRaderaWhere did you grow up?
SvaraRaderaAll swedish cities and villiges are built around water, by the sea, a lake or a river.Maybe a few aren´t. The water in the pictures is a river that has been damed (?) for a power plant and has become more like a lake. This kind of boat is called "eka" in swedish if you want to impress your scandinavian freinds :-) and is mostly made of wood bur this one is made of glass fiber (?)
I grew up in Billings, Montana. On the banks of the Yellowstone river, yes it does come down out of Yellowstone park. But we did not do boating. There were a few Dams, (dammed), an hour or two away, but we didn't go there often, and didn't have a boat when we went. As a "Boy scout" we did collect old car tires to recycle into fiberglass for canoes, but I never was around for the final product, i.e. an actual canoe. Later in my life, maybe 16/17 years old I did get to go out in a boat. I did not like it. I still don't trust boats. Being on the water makes me very nervous.
SvaraRaderaMontana makes me think of old western movies, europeans look at america as it´s shown in movies from Hollywood. I´ve never been to NYC but I can tell you what it looks like.
SvaraRaderaGrowing ut at that coust of the Baltic sea you can´t avoid being on a boat. And the ferries to Finland were legendary when I grew up.
The old western movies were not the Montana I grew up in, think more "Brokeback Mountain" movie.
SvaraRaderaThat was a very thoughtful movie, and you must have a very interesting up bringing in that case.
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