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I've just uploaded a voice recording which is now to be found on my home page - not quite what I had intended but OK. I am trying out different options for including sound recordings on my home page www.thesupercargo.com and was thinking of buying space on a dedicated podcast storage server, when I remembered that Ipernity has this audio upload function with the possibility to embed on other Internet pages. So i thouhgt I'd try it out. And see! It works beautifully (at least, on Explorer - have to test it in some other web browsers too.) Anyway, in the meantime, dear fellow Iperniteans, you now have the pleasure (ahem) of hearing the sound of my voice as well as seeing my pictures.

To see the text that I'm reading, please go to this URL: http://www.thesupercargo.com/swbyway.html

I'm taking part in a competition to find an Internet 'face' and 'voice' for the Swedish Youth Hostel Association (STF). It all started on Saturday and has been a crazy weekend. Now I've uploaded a voice recording of my first blog entry on the matter.

You can listen by clicking on the playback device here. You can also read the text at the same time by going here.

The first two videos (one in Swedish, one in English) are embedded in the blog at the above link, but you can also see them on YouTube here (Swedish) or here (English).

Your support would be very welcome! If ou want, you can also follow me on Twitter where I am also "TheSupercargo". I'll come back hjere soon with the Twitter URL.

The STF page that explains it all (in swedish) is here:
http://www.svenskaturistforeningen.se/sv/ssj/sverigessvenskastejobb/

Once more, a bit delayed with these pictures. (I'm only uploading them exactly now because of this competition I've got myself involved in. "Sveriges svenskaste jobb" - Sweden's most Swedish job.) Still, some of them are quite nice I think.

On Easter Monday Agneta and I took the public transport ferry out to Rörö. Our company was our friend Staffan from Östersund, down in Gothenburg to see relatives. Rörö is the northernmost inhabited island of Gothenburg's northern archipelago. (At least, the northernmost island with a settlement - I suppose there might be summer cottages on rocks further out.)

Blue stripe 2

Conversation

Look to windward

Rock pattern

Thornbuds

It was a still, sometimes sunny, sometimes slightly misty day. Very enjoyable. Walked on the rolling rocks of the western beach and saw how the grass and bushes (I think they were juniper) root as near as they can to the water's edge between the stones of the beach, but grow away from the shore, driven up the beach and inland in the face of storm winds and sea. We also visited the Englishmen under their cairn. The story is that the cairn covers the bodies of two shipwrecked and drowned English sailors (and that their ghosts haunt the spot, of course!)

The Englishmen 2

The Englishmen 3

Dry stalks

Rocky shore

Fishing