♥ Green Thumb Sunday ♥

This is the water of Loch Fyne you see in the background, from one of our fantastic trips to Scotland. It is at our favorite castle B&B, where we have stayed a couple of days in the two trips we have done over there. I will tell you more about that later in a special cyber cruise post.

We’re approaching the winter season over here in Sweden and I only wish I could make a dream beam back to the summer and Scotland - one of our favorite travel destinations.

I really can recommend going there. We have seen the east coast, the west coast and the highlands and it is absolutely breathtaking views everywhere.

They are calling Ireland the green island, but truly, Scotland is at least as green as Ireland!

For me, with all the old castles and Lochs, it is the ultimate romantic country to visit…

All bloggers are welcome to Lifecruisers Halloween 23-31 October, with a spooktacular Halloween Party the 31th!

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Warning: Do not open this can!!!!!

Content: Surströmming = Fermented herring from northern Sweden.

This is without doubt, the most smelly thing we have here in Sweden! I’m glad that we did not have that as party food yesterday! Thanks for coming here and having scary fun - you are all such fun to be with!

Think of the most disgusting food you ever have eaten and then imagine that this is worse!!! You could faint just by the smell of it. I do not even know if I will call it smell, it is more like a stank.

It is like eating rotten fish. They camouflage it with other stuff and drink heavily to be able to swallow it and the flies just LOVE it! YUK.

It is considered a sanitarian inconvenience to open a surströmming can if you are living in an apartment building, because the smell is spreading far, far from the can. You can not hide it. Therefor, it is amost always opened outdoors and preferably eaten outdoors too.

I have tasted a small bite once, just to be able to say that I have tasted it, but it is difficult to persuade yourself to do it when it is stinking like that!

I read somewhere that we have exported a lot to Japan, they must have lost their sense of smell… *giggles*

I know that the Norwegians have their rakfisk, which also is fermented fish, but their is not smelling like the Swedish surströmming does. They are not at all similar, I have tasted the rakfisk and it is delicious. Almost like salmon :-)

Read RennyBas post about Rakfisk.

Other fermented stuff at eastcoastlife.

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Welcome to our Blog Warming Party #1!

We are ghostly happy to great you welcome to our new spooktacular home, created by the blog design goddess Leanne.

The Ghost Boo Face which I am so in love with is originally created by the amazingly talented Carole Nickerson and tweaked by Leanne.

We are holding an open haunted house this Friday until whitching hour, so stay haunted!

Have some Champagne to start with to dare more:

Cheers for YOU that makes this blog to such a fun place to be. May we have as much upcoming fun as we have have in the past. It truly has been a blast!

Blog Warming Party #2 will be in November and we will have #3 in January 2008 too. No need to say that we love to party hah? *giggles*

Eat, drink and be scary!!!!

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go back to their quiet graves…

We have a lot of Halloween fun coming up here at Lifecruiser, so this is just some pre-partying…. *giggles*