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A red cottage in the countryside

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We have been renting somebody´s permanent home in Södermanland County, in Sw eden, for ten days. We thus walked "walk a mile in the shoes" of our landlady, which was fun - so different from renting a holiday home where nobody lives in. We could not help thinking about the personality and life story of the person who trusted us and let us her keys, books, own pictures, plants, wine cellar.  In this romantic small cottage, we found tranquillity and inspiration. I took some landscape pictures (mostly water and sky) that I will show next time. By the way, I cannot access my Facebook page since we are back (after a big Windows update and the GRPD entering into force, maybe there is no connection at all).  I have tried everything (different browsers, reset account, cleared cache and cookies) and the problem remains. Because I know that I cannot expect much help from the company, I will just keep posting here and on Twitter, ignoring Facebook. If, one day, I can access my page a

Sand storm

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It is weird to look at the sea and seeing just - dust. The sky is not blue, but between grey and yellowish. This phenomenon of having so many sand particles in the air is called calima here, and when the rain comes, it is  lluvia de barro , muddy rain, as it contains enough desert dust so that, afterwards, all cars look like if they had taken part to the Dakar rally ;-) The only annoying thing is that you have to clean a lot. Because all windows, doors, chairs and terraces also were taking part to the rally. Sand storm