Almost one year... well, 10 months and two weeks... have passed since my last contribution to my weblog here. And a lot of things have happened in that span of time. Maybe I will return to some of it in later postings, but here I just want to tell, that I have left China - my home for 12 years! - and settled in Sweden, so future postings will not specifically be about "My life in China", but everything seen from the perspective of the wonderful Swedish countryside in Österlen/Skåne just outside the small town of Tomelilla. I feel I have arrived in Paradise. Although I know I am not dead yet. These last 10 days in "Paradise" have seen the most wonderful weather with the sun shining from the clear blue skies, nature awakening and blooming. From my garden terrasse I have an astonishing view over the yellow rapefields, the green trees around, the green grass and the red tulips in my garden... and then the very blue skies where no clouds dots the panorama, except the condense tracks after the airliners that soundlessly pass by up probably some 10 kilometers in the skies. Only the noise from the occasional car that pass by on the road outside my garden break the silence... well, silence a la Nature! Because there is a host of birds around. Rooks! And they are not silent of course. But what a contrast to Beijing! Here at Övrabyborg more airliners silently cross the sky above on their journeys from East to West or West to East than cars passing by on our local road! I hope you can visualize the scene. The stage is set for the next part of my life. And I will regularly tell you aout it here on my weblog. Have a wonderful Whitsun - tomorrow morning there should be plenty of opportunities to see and experience the sun "dance" as it raises on the horizon.