Electrophotonic Timesinks

A couple of weeks ago me and Stina started talking about going on a road trip together over a weekend, and last week we decided to go for it. On Thursday the 17th I met up with her in a café in Jönköping, and together we headed out to the island of Visingsö in lake Vättern, for a weekend away from city life.

The author inside one of the little caves of Visingsö

The family summer house on the island is where I spent most summers when I was younger. I always started missing my video games at home after a while, but it probably did me good to periodically get away from that life. Of course, this wasn’t entirely true, as me and my other summer-house friends there had Game Boys (as well as the occasional Game Gear). But still, much like I return home from my pretty brain dead job (which isn’t always a bad thing) with pockets full of post-it notes with hastily scribbled down creative ideas, the summers at Visingsö away from the digital life in Södertälje did give me inspiration for things to do once I got back.
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