The Caribbean 1500 and the people that make it special

(Caption shows the crew of the Moody 54 Habits of Health).
My favorite thing about big sailing events - whether boat shows, rendezvous', pot-lucks or rallies - used to be the boats. I love nothing more than walking the docks and looking at boats, and I like them all. Some more than others to be sure (give me an old classic over a modern plastic bottle anyway), but all of them nonetheless.

Halvags i Tortola

Helt otroligt nastan alla batar har nu kommit in till Tortola, vi vantar fortfarande pa Avanti som kommer in nagon gang undrer kvallen, och Moonshadow och Couliocou imorgon. Det ar ett glatt gang som kommit till Torotla och igar under den forsta Happy Hour vid stranden dok nastintill alla upp. Man kunde se och hora att alla var sugna att prata om seglingen och vadret, om askstormarna och delfiner som halsade pa. Det jag tycker ar absolut roligast med dessa event ar alla manniskor vi traffar.

Tillbaka i Caribbean

Vi har nu landat i Tortola, BVI. Det kanns jatteskont att vara tillbaka har och traffa alla vi larde kanna forra aret. Miles och Brendon, Marina Manager och Dock Master har i Nanny Cay har satsat stenhart pa arets Movember och antligen kanner Andy att han inte ar ensam med sin "nagot spretiga -inte sa vackra" mustach. :)

Dead leaves and the dirty ground…

I’m on the plane again! Mia and I are en route to Tortola for the finish of the Caribbean 1500. We’re pretty sure that everyone else on the plane is on the way to vacation. We won’t have much time to relax – the first two boats are due in tomorrow morning around 2am, so we’ll get right to it!

But this post is nothing about that. I don’t know what it’s about. I’m listening to Jack White right now, which is where I got the title from. I remember during my senior year of high school (we have our ten-year anniversary in about two weeks) Adam Moerder’s band played that song at the talent show. I don’t think anybody had a clue who the White Stripes were then, save for Adam and his friends. I can’t wait to ask him about that when Ryan and I chat with him for the podcast. It’s his song, after all, that is in the intro of Two Inspired Guys. His band now is called Mr. Dream. Check them out.

Tortola nasta!

Just nu befinner sig jag och Andy pa Philadelphias flygplats. Alldeles strax ska vi kliva ombord pa planet som ska ta oss till Tortola, BVI. Eller rattare sagt, vi flyger till USVI, taxi till farjan, farja till Roadtown och sedan taxi till hotellet i Nanny Cay.

C1500, tillbaka i PA

Oj, vet inte riktigt var jag ska borja... Jag och Andy ar nu hemma i PA igen efter tva veckor i Hampton, VA. Vi har som sagt jobbat for eventet Carib1500 dar ca 40 batar seglar fran Hampton till BVI eller Bahamas.

Vi checkade in pa Crown Plaza som blev varat hem under tva veckor. Som ni sakert redan vet ar jag ingen hotell-manniska, i alla fall inte under langre perioder. Jag och Andy gjorde vad vi kunde for att gora det lite mer mysigt, vi bestallde upp ett kylskap och hade var egen kaffebryggare.

Carib 1500: The decision to depart early

Hannah on Helia, just
before departure

I'm writing this from my hotel room in Hampton on Sunday night, the day after the Caribbean 1500 fleet went to sea (the day it was supposed to go to sea). I need to confirm this with Steve Black, but I think it's the first time in the event's history that it actually left the Chesapeake early. 

Fall on the US East Coast is always a difficult time for weather forecasting, and this year was perhaps the best (or worst, depending on your perspective) example of that. The challenge in planning an offshore voyage this time of year is the tight window between hurricane season and the winter weather pattern. Insurance companies won't let most yachts south of Cape Hatteras before November 1 (and they probably wouldn't want to be there anyway), but the longer you wait, the greater the chances of running into a big nor'easter offshore. 

The impossibility of weather forecasting

The un-predicted, extra-tropical
Hurricane Sean, from 2011

Note: this is re-printed from the March/April 2012 issue of Yacht Essentials Magazine. Thanks to Chris Kennan and Brad Kovach for permission!

“This is complicated.” That is what scientists in the 1960s and 1970s decided a simple graph depicting a chaotic curve – the ‘Lorenz Attractor’ – was trying to say, without having to speak a word.

Andy on TV with the Caribbean 1500!

Okay, this was a fun (if not slightly embarrassing) morning for me. The local morning show here in Hampton - called the Hampton Roads Show - invited us down to be in their studio audience during the live taping of their morning. I took along the crews from Pendragon and Helia, and we watched the entirety of the show, waiting for our brief segment to come on. I was a tad nervous, but I suppose it wasn't too bad...

Audience: Caribbean 1500

Morning Training and Hurricane Sandy

Carib 1500 boats at Hampton

Mia and I just got back from a short run this morning (in the dark). I'm annoyed that the clocks won't change until the day of the start - November 4 - because otherwise the sun would be up when we're out carousing around Hampton.

We set off towards Hampton University, over the bridge and down the walkway onto campus grounds, around 6:30 and it was pitch black. Hurricane Sandy is on the way, and you could feel it in the air. It's extremely humid outside this morning, and windy - but the rain isn't here yet, and that's why we ran this morning.

C1500 Hampton, VA

Jag och Andy har nu intagit Hampton, VA och checkat in på vårt hotellrum där vi kommer spendera de två kommande veckorna. Vi är här för att jobba för C1500, ett cruising rally med ca 45 båtar som startar här i Hampton och seglar ner till Tortola, BVI eller Green Turtle Cay i Bahamas. Jag och Andy kan tyvärr inte hoppa på en båt och segla med utan flyger ner och är på plats i Nanny Cay, Tortola när båtarna anländer.

I get better sleep on the boat

I've made it a point lately to read the newspaper (or a book, or a magazine) in the morning with my coffee rather than jump straight onto the computer. I was up watching the Presidential debate on Monday while simultaneously working on the podcast website, and ended up staying up until 11:30. When I did finally go to bed, it was immediately after I'd turned off the laptop and brushed my teeth. My head was spinning when I laid down. I slept horribly, and was tired all day yesterday.

I poolen :)

Igår var jag i poolen för första gången på mycket länge..

På senare tid har det skapats ett sug inuti mig att böra simma igen, inte alls på samma galna sätt som tidigare, utan lite mer humant denna gång, kanske en gång i veckan eller så. Andy var i Pittsburgh ett par dagar och jag hade inget bättre för mig så jag hoppade på cykel och åkte till närmsta pool...

Schooner Race watch with Rodney

We left Annapolis early and drove up to Sparrow's Point, to the Old Bay Marina where I'd been twice before to help Rodney do some work on his Tayana 37. The boat had been hauled out for over 3 years, Rodney doing the refit himself between sculpture projects. Two years ago I helped him step the mast, when the boat was on the hard. Earlier this summer, Mia and I joined him and his wife Narda (and their brown dog Brownie) on a sweltering day to help install his new synthetic lifelines. I taught him how to make a locking brummel splice, using two custom fids he'd made in his studio from old pieces of stainless rod stock. They were beautiful, and worked great. Rodney and I met in 2010 when Arcturus was hauled out for the summer in Annapolis, Mia and I doing our own refit. He'd read some of my Spinsheet articles and got in touch with me through my editor there.

Baltimore Marathon!

Idag har vi sprungit Baltimore Marathon.

Vet inte riktigt var jag ska börja men hade tänkt summera dagen, lättast är nog att börja från början…

Andy var lagom frustrerad imorse när han vaknade och insåg att jag tagit den sista mjölken till kaffet, och hans "half and half" (grädde blandat med mjölk) var stenhård efter att ha stått ute hela gårdagen. Så inte den bästa starten på dagen..

Baltimore Marathon: the English version, according to Google Translate...

Outside Camden Yards before the start.

Note: This is Mia's post from earlier today, as read by Google Translate. You'll get the drift - but the point of me (Andy) posting it is for the comedic value...enjoy!

Today we ran Baltimore Marathon. 'm not sure where to start, but had thought summarize the day, the easiest is probably to start from the beginning ... Andy was moderately frustrated this morning when he woke up and realized that I had taken the last milk to the coffee, and his " half and half "(cream mixed with milk) was rock hard after standing out all yesterday. So not the best start to the day ..

Lance fooled me too

Note: This post was originally published on October 23, 2007 on my blog, under the title 'Riding with Lance'. I had just completed my second 100-mile ride with the LIVEstrong Challenge in Philly, a fundraising event Lance's foundation put on. During the first, he was not present. But during the second, he was, and I got to ride beside him.  

Lance had been my idol. It started innocently enough when someone at a party once told me I looked like him. I took that to heart to the extent that I started cycling in earnest, discovered a new sport I liked. I bought his team jersey's, I bought a Trek Madone painted in the Discovery Team scheme. I dressed like him for Halloween one year at Penn State. Ryan Briggs, my co-host on the Two Inspired Guys podcast, made fun of me for this obsession incessantly in college. I probably wasn't unlike hundreds of other cycling fans. He fooled us all.

I think more than anything else, that Floyd Landis has to feel pretty good today. I've felt bad for him all along more than anyone else. Check out Malcolm Gladwell on the BS Report this week...he makes some good points to the contrary, but it's a pretty bad deal nonetheless.

This is what I wrote in 2007 after riding with him...

Info Baltimore Marathon

I morgon, lördagen 13:e Oktober, ska jag Andy och Micah (och några till….) springa Baltimore Marathon. Under mina marathon i Sthlm har jag blivit bortskämd med att ha vänner och familj på plats som hejat fram oss. I år känner jag inte någon som kommer och tittar på oss men om ni vill kan ni följa oss via datorn. Jag vet inte exakt var (troligen under fliken "resultat"), men hemsidan är http://www.thebaltimoremarathon.com

Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race: A photo from Mia, and an old article from Andy

Pride of Baltimore II

I'm going to write a story about our day today with Rodney (coming tomorrow)...for now, enjoy this awesome photo of the Pride of Baltimore II that Mia took today out sailing with our friend Rodney. And check out his sculptures sometime too. They're amazing. Story - and more photos - to follow tomorrow...

In the meantime, enjoy this Spinsheet piece I wrote about our friend and six-time schooner race veteran Brian Duff. This piece was about his race in 2009 on a 52-foot brigantine - but in 2010, Brian skippered the smallest-ever boat in the race, a tiny Tancook Whaler replica with his friend Ted and their two young sons. Ironically, Rodney was aboard Arcturus when we went out from Annapolis on a very rainy day in 2010 to watch the start - also aboard were Brian's wife Kim, and Ted's wife Claudia. Also ironic is that fact that Mia and I are the event managers for this year's Caribbean 1500. Weird how things sometimes come full circle.

Running across the Atlantic

Running on Marstrand, Sweden
Summer '12

This one has been a long time coming. For a while now I've thought about putting down in words another of my passions, beyond just the sailing thing. Since high school I've been more and more into endurance sports. I got really into endurance sports the first year I lived full-time in Annapolis, racing in three triathlons and a couple amateur cycling races over the course of one summer, and doing quite well in them. I lived in an apartment at the time, kept my road bike in the living room and went out often before work (I was crew on the Woodwind then), sometimes riding 40 miles, leaving before the sun came up. On my days off I'd go for my long rides - put the headphones on, pack some food in my shirt and cycle all the way down to North Beach, in South County, some forty+ miles away, where I'd stop for a big iced coffee at one of the cafes overlooking the shoreline before cycling another forty miles home again.

Naval Academy Midshipmen "Gangnam Style"

Okay, this is ridiculous. Mia and I discovered this Gangnam Style thing back in Sweden from her friend Gurly and had a good laugh, and it's obviously been all over since. But this is the funniest version of it, especially living in Annapolis. Molly Winans, my editor at Spinsheet, posted it on her blog last week. Holy moly.

Two Inspired Guys: BONUS EPISODE! Anna Vinnars Behind the Scenes

Episode #3 was with Anna Vinnars. Ryan and I pulled off an international three-way Skype conversation - Anna was in Malmö, on the Swedish west coast, I was in Stockholm (or just outside, in Dunderbo), and Ryan was in West Virginia. So that was neat. I mentioned in the intro that I loved her voice, so we I called her up a few days later and we recorded the intro and outro bits. This is the full-length, behind-the-scenes recording of that Skype conversation. It was a blast! Anna is awesome!

Two Inspired Guys Podcast #3: Anna Vinnars

Vinnars in Africa

Anna is one of Mia Karlsson's (Andy's wife) 'swim girls', whom she grew up with in Uppsala Sweden. Since high school and her swim days, 'Vinnars' has led a decidedly non-traditional life, particularly from the American standpoint of highschool, college, career. After high school, Vinnars set out for Africa, where she lived and worked in the countryside, volunteering to help out local orphanages. That experience inspired her to strive for bigger and better adventures, and after a year saving money by working on an adventure-type cruise ship in Norway, Vinnars returned to the Dark Continent with her friend Robin, and together they cycled from Cape Town all the way back to Sweden. Check her out on Facebook at Anna Vinnars.

5 dagar kvar!

Nu börjar det närma sig, det är bara fem dagar kvar till jag och Andy ska springa Baltimore Marathon. Vår vän Micha ska springa med oss vilket ska bli super, hans första marathon!

Imorse var jag ute på en intervalljogg runt Annapolis, alltid skönt att springa innan staden vaknar till liv. Just nu pågår båtmässan här i Annapolis så det är kaos inne i stan, förutom morgnarna då alla ligger och sover! Benen känns pigga och jag är riktigt taggad inför maran!! 

Annapolis Sailboat Show, marathon training & more podcast interviews

Anna Vinnars, our podcast guest next week, petting the
Giraffes during her cycling trip in Africa.

It's boat show time in Annapolis! I think most people, especially those working the show (and the townies) kind of dislike this crazy, crowded weekend of selling and buying. But I love it. I've been coming to the show since I was a kid, and just the atmosphere around everything is still very exciting for me. I feel like a six year old. By the way, come say hi in booth O-18 between 10-4!

My dad was reflecting the other night that he's been to all 41 boat shows here in Annapolis, since the very first one. I had known this, but it never occurred to me that there were actually 41 of them. He and my mom were married for 37 years, and didn't start sailing until their honeymoon, which means he came down several years before he even started sailing. They had a Sunfish back then, so I suppose that counts.

Two Inspired Guys: Podcast Episode #2 with Matt Rutherford

Matt Rutherford is newly famous in the sailing world for his recent 'Solo the Americas' Expedition. An Annapolis transplant, Matt set out from the Chesapeake Bay in June 2011 on an extraordinary adventure, sailing north through the Northwest Passage and Canadian Arctic before turning south into the Pacific and sailing for the Roaring Forties and Cape Horn. He returned to the Atlantic and sailed north again, all the way back to Annapolis - all alone, nonstop and in a 27-foot Albin Vega sailboat built in the 1970s. The journey took him through 27,000 miles of ocean over 309 days. Matt is the epitome of a driven person and upon his return founded the Ocean Research Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and scientific research in the world's oceans. Ryan and Andy talked to Matt in Annapolis, where he's displaying the Vega, called St. Brendan to help raise money for Chesapeake Regional Accessible Boating (CRAB) at the Annapolis Sailboat Show. PLUS, TWO BONUS EPISODES WITH MATT! Enjoy!

Tillbaka i Reading

Igår lyfte jag och Andy från Arlanda. Pappa var snäll att skjutsa osstill flygplatsen, och Iceland Air snälla att transportera oss över Atlanten. Jag lyckades sova en stund, kollade på en film och tiden gick ganska så fort.

Vi landade vid halvåtta och tack gode gud att jag kan gå i "medborgar-kön" nu genom passkontrollen. Skulle inte vara förvånad om personerna i den andra kön, "besökare-kön" fortfarande står kvar.... Så klart somnade jag som en stock på väg hem från flygplatsen, ramlade i säng när jag kom innanför dörren och har nu vaknat, halvsex på morgonen.

#1: Wild Spirit Bushcraft & Dog-Sledding

Richard Rees is the neighbor at Andy's wife Mia's family house in Dunderbo, in the countryside in Sweden. He comes from Wales, in the UK, where he runs Wild Spirit Bushcraft, an outdoor adventure/education company. Since coming to Sweden, however, he's focused on expanding the business and is moving up north to start dogsledding trips. Andy spent the winter this past year helping to train the dogs - which was a riot! - and spoke to Richard at the house in September. He and Claire Harris were just getting ready to move - with their 26 huskies! - and head for the north, for adventure. Find them online at wildspirit.se

Check out this episode!

Hemma igen (och en massa bilder!)

Ombord Kinship

Nu är jag o Andy hemma i Sverige igen, men det är ett snabbesök… tyvärr!

Las Palmas var härligt, men även det var en snabbvisit. Vi kom in dit med Kinship i fredags,  efter en fem dagars segling ner från Lagos. Det var kul att visa Andy runt och visa upp hur allt är runt arken som jag var där och jobbade för två år tidigare. I söndags eftermiddag stack vi ner till södra delen av ön (tack gode gud att det fanns en direktbuss) för att träffa Annika och Danny. Det var ett kärt återseende och jag önskar vi hade haft mer tid tillsammans... De bor fantastiskt fint, på andra våningen med utsikt över vattnet. Till deras lycka har de utsikt över en cementfabrik. Danny förklarade att denna fabrik är samhällets räddning, när den läggs ner kommer det byggas stora hotell, och stranden nedanför dem kommer befolkas av turister. Ett intressant perspektiv.

SAILfeed: Five days offshore across the North Sea

This post was originally published in four parts on andyandmia.net. I got inspired to edit and publish it here after reading Pat and Ali Schulte's Weird Things Happen at Sea post today. Mia and I had some similar experiences in the North Sea earlier this summer, namely with a moving oil rig (or so I thought) and a rogue wave on an otherwise sunny evening. Here's our experience...

SAILfeed: 'Why Pat Schulte is right, and why I am slightly embarassed.

Note: Henceforth, our sailing content will appear on sailfeed.com, SAIL magazine's online site. We'll be posting summaries here, and you'll always see the 'SAILfeed' logo on the left so you know what's what. Just click the title (or the logo), and the full article is linked. Cool, eh!?

Now I’m inspired. Took me some time. And a cheese sandwich.

I’m writing from a Norwegian Airlines flight, en route from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria to Stockholm, via Oslo. Mia is in the window seat next to me (asleep. She has a knack for dozing off before a flight ever leaves the terminal – once, in Australia, she slept for three full hours, awakening to a view of the tarmac outside her window and assuming they’d reached their destination. The plane, in fact, had never left the airport thanks to a delay. She was oblivious). I’m stuck in the middle seat.

Las Palmas

Vi är i Las Palmas, solen steker alldeles för mycket men vi är glada att vara här!! Jag och Andy flög ner till Lagos i onsdags för att hjälpa till att segla Kinship ner till Las Palmas, samma båt som vi seglade över Atlanten tidigare i våras.

I söndags lämnade vi Lagos. Vädret verkade lite sisådär, lite vind och en orkan som vi inte visste vad den skulle göra, den verkade i alla fall inte komma när oss. När vi lämnade Lagos hade vi tillräckligt mycket vind, men så fort mörkret lagt sig var vi tvungna att starta motorn i över ett dygn. Men vinden kom tillbaka och vi hade fantastisk segling, till och med spinnaker segling sista dagen! Vi hade stora grupper av delfiner som kom och besökte oss och gav oss världens show ett par gånger. Mycket mindre än de vi såg över Nordsjön, och betydligt fler. Vi hade även en besökare i form av en fågel, någon typ av duva kom vi fram till. I fredags landade hon på båten under Tims vakt och stannade hos oss hela dagen. :)

A note about advertisements...

Since Mia and I re-designed my fathersonsailing.com website, bringing over her blog (originally at miatravel.blogspot.com) and combining our efforts online, we've added some ads to the site. I had said for a while that I'd avoid this, because I normally dislike ads on the other sites I read (which by the way, are primarily npr.org, grantland.com, garagestrength.com and the handful of sites I list on the 'friends' sidebar of our site).

Anyway, we've included some ads. They are strictly for people and companies that we have reached out to (not vice versa), and that have in turn helped us out along the way, whether with sailing hardware, gear, dockage or what have you. So any of the ads you see on the site are for companies we would be supporting regardless, and which we believe in. We'll never be using Google's adsense, or posting random stuff here. Just the stuff we like and use ourselves. So there.

What it feels like

I'm finally caught up to the present. Those last few posts were my efforts at purging some content from my hand-written journal, which had actually accumulated more material than I expected. It was interesting re-reading what I had written in real-time and then translating it into the past tense. Hopefully it was interesting to read.

I'm writing from Portugal. Mia and I flew down to Faro yesterday and took a two-hour bus ride to Lagos to meet Kinship, the Saga 43 we sailed across the Atlantic earlier this summer. The boat is heading back to the Caribbean with the ARC Rally in November, and we are helping Tim sail it down to Las Palmas to prepare for the start. I slept like a child in the pullman berth next to Mia last night, a cool breeze wafting down the hatch, ideal sleeping weather. We plan to leave on Saturday (it's Thursday now, and it's bad luck to leave on a Friday), and have a few odds and ends to prepare on the boat before then.

Hemmalyx!

Idag är det onsdag. Hur gick detta till?

Vi har varit hemma sedan i slutet av förra veckan men var har dagarna tagit vägen, inte alls hunnit med det jag hade planerat... Men det är väl som det ska vara... :)

Andy har blivit bortskämd under dessa dagar, mamma är mycket bra på detta. Jag har dock försökt ta ner honom på jorden och berättar att det han upplevt är lyx på hg nivå, inte standard.

Stockholm Skärgård

Photo by Andy

This story was about our last overnight passage on Arcturus, fromVisby up to the Stockholm archipelago. I wrote it in my journal as it happened, then copied it here in the past tense, as I've been doing. It took place just before Sept. 1...

It was my last night watch of the summer on Arcturus. Mia and I are heading off to Portugal soon to sail Kinship (the boat we delivered with its owner trans-Atlantic earlier this summer) down to Las Palmas, so it wasn't my last real night watch, but felt like it in a way since I wouldn't be seeing my boat for a while. We were only 15-20 miles south of the archipelago ('skärgård' in Swedish), aiming just east of Nynashamn. The plan was to anchor out for the week before finding a dock on Djurgården in central Stockholm for the weekend. We had an open house scheduled with friends and family (thanks to all who visited!).

Stormy Weather in Visby, Gotland

An empty guest harbor
('gästhamn')in Visby. By Mia.

Note: This was originally from my hand-written journal, written on 23 August. I copied it to the computer, changed it to the past tense and edited/added a few things here and there...

It blew hard in Visby the day we arrived. Unfortunately from the west, and right through the opening in the breakwater. The wind brought with it a very annoying swell that battered the empty guest harbor. We were one of six boats in an area of floating docks that could have handled over 200. And one of those six was from Visby, so presumably is always there.

Hur mycket lutar båten?

Under helgen när vi hade vänner över båten undrade några hur mycket båten egentligen lutar när vi seglar.. Vi försökte förklara men det känns alltid svårt att beskriva med ord, speciellt när man sitter fastknuten i bryggan i hamn.

Jag o Andy kom in i Mälaren i tisdags morse. Egentligen hade vi tänkt att segla ut från Djurgården redan måndag kväll, men när bron inte öppnade förrän 18.30, vi hade sprungit 28 km o var lite lagom sega och Andy behövde jobba (älskar bortförklaringar) blev det en extra natt vid wasahamnen. Vi hade väntat oss en motorbåtstrip genom Mälaren till Enköping då vinden skulle vara rakt mot oss. Vi blev dock lyckligt överraskade och hade en fantastisk segling, mellan 6-7 knop, behövde bara köra motor de två första timmarna och lyckades segla hela vägen till vi la ankare! 

The South Coast of Sweden and a Passage to Visby

Note: This was originally from my hand-written journal, written on 20 August. I copied it to the computer, changed it to the past tense and edited/added a few things here and there...

The south coast of Sweden, the beginnings of the Baltic, proved slow conditions for our little boat. We’d decided long ago not to motor – fuel is nearly four times the price in Sweden as it is back in the USA – and we enjoy the challenge of sailing everywhere rather than giving in to the diesel. Plus, the diesel isn’t exactly reliable, so it’s not really a choice.

Långhelg i Sthlm!

Foto: Frida Karlsson

Jag och Andy är nu redo att segla ut från Sthlm och in i Mälaren. Vilka fantastiska dagar vi haft, tillsammans med vänner och familj i våran favoritstad!

"Inseglingen" till Sthm blev inte riktigt som vi tänkt oss, bilden i våra huvuden innehöll strålande sol, vi kommer in i staden under full segel och solen blänker i seglen. Istället öste regnet ner, ingen vind så vi var tvungna att gå för motor, och vi tog oss in till Wasahamnen så fort vi bara kunde.. Jaja, vad gör väl det, vi var ju i Sthlm!