The girls are listening to music on the computer att my mum's this morning. Olivia does her best to play along on her accordion.
Yesterday evening.I just have to write about this in English, in case some of our friends from the UK visit the blog. Any Swedish person would understand what this is about (but probably can't comprehend why these people do it), but to forigners ... you must think Swedish people are crazy.
And to a certain extend you are obviously right.
It's especially difficult to understand how the driver puts up with the drunk friends the whole night. I wonder how they decide who's driving.
The people in the cars are "raggare". My dictionary's explanation is: member of gang of youths who ride about in cars.But raggare are more than that. They dress up in jeans clothes, they use nazi symbols and fancy Southern States flags, they drink loads of beer, they roar and they are incredibly ugly - because they want to be.
Their biggest wish is to own an american car from the 60's.
This weekend raggare from all of Sweden meet in Varberg, to go cruising and visit the exhibition "Weels and wings".
Varberg has a tradition of raggare, but trust me, I have never ever mixed with them.
This is just as fun as going to the zoo, in other words!
Olivia was about to
fall asleep at the end, after raggar-spotting the whole afternoon.A lot of cars are however very beautiful. You can see they are treasured by their owners, who probably were proper raggare in the 70's.
The wannabies borrow dad's Volvo and do their best to look cool. Loosers!
Some bring the whole families - we saw three generations in one car with granny on the weel.
A group of veteran scooter drivers also joined the cruise. The weather has been very rainy and cold the last few weeks here in Sweden, but yesterday was a nice summer day and evening. The town was packed with people. This is just at the outskirt of the centre, where my mum lives.
Some cars are very ugly and it's hard to understand what they want to show, really.
It can't be the just-as-ugly-passengers.
Trying to be cool and watching out for the police at the same time. The driver would be fined for "carelessness in traffic" if caught.
As the evening turned in to night the raggare went louder and drunker, and the air was thick with burnt gas. We gave up at ten a'clock, but I could still hear the party going on when Vera-Mei started to "sing" at around three. I wonder how all these people feel today. They just have to try to shape up, because this afternoon the big cruise will take place.
The other big happening today is that Sven-Göran Eriksson will arrive´with Manchester City for one week's training camp here in Varberg. The players will get a surprising first impression of Varberg!
The third big happening today is Varbergs-loppet, a 1/4-Marathon in which Mats and his brother will take part. Mats is keeping his fingers crossed that his knee will be okay. Otherwise, the Berlin Marathon will be difficult to achieve this autumn.
The fourth big happening is that Mats' mother is coming to stay with us for a few days. It will be the first time she and Vera-Mei meet.
Biggest laugh yesterday: Mats went to the hair dresser's and came back looking a bit ... chocked. The hair dresser had trimmed his eye brows! "I'm getting old", was his conclusion.
Tomorrow we will move to the summer house. The family who rented it reported that they enjoyed staying, but the garden is so full of water after the last weeks rain fall, thay had to buy pieces of wood to create a bridge to be able to go in to the house when not in wellies. We obviously don't need any more rain. More sunshine would be nice, though. Olivia and Vera-Mei went to the beach yesterday and had their first bath!














































