havrå del 4

This is Ingrid, she have been living here for ever and she likes to talk to us who work here when she walks by, its very nice to have some one come and interrupt the work so I can stand up straight for a little while and give my back a rest.

havrå del 3

Its been surprisingly good weather for a while, but now the Havrå that I know is back, last year was the rainiest summer in a hundred years, lets see if this summer can give it a run for its money.

Havrå del 2

So I have been here for a week and the battery in my camera have died, I hope to get my charger tomorrow. I have also been trying to learn landscape photography and found it harder than it is fun so I think I will save that one for a year or two. I have also failed in my attempt to post 10 good pictures when my stay here is over so they will come a little at the time, providing that I get the charger.

I use the peace and quiet to process everything that have happened in the last year and just be amazed by the surroundings. Life is simple and pretty sweet.

Havrå 2012 prolog

 This is the farm and behind it is the fields where we work

Maybe some people wonder where I go every summer, why I miss everything that I would want to do such as Fluff fest, midsummer's eave with friends, hardcore town in Gothenburg and a long list of other things that I would love to do during June and July. Well, this is where I go and usually come home less poor than before I went. Its is a nice place and I feel pretty content when I'm here. At least when the sun is shining which is much less than I want it to be. Its one of the rainiest places in northern Europe and have put the bible to shame with a record (that I know of) of 90 days straight of rain. But it is okey, flooding here is not possible, the mountains are to high and the hillsides to steep for any such things. Actually, the hillsides are steep like you wouldn't believe and probably like my camera can't capture. 

Home, sweet home #2

 Just a few pictures from around Pennygången

This is Pennygången, its a street in Högsbohöjd in western Gothenburg, it also happens to be the place where I live.
It is a street that is made out of long line of houses and yards, more than 700 homes.

Pennygången was built in the late 50s as a test before the goverments gigantic housing project started 1965 and I don't know if it was meant as a temporary thing or if it was meant to stand. The inner walls are pretty thing and noise travels a little as it likes between rooms and apartments despite closed doors, walls or ceilings. But the rent is low and I like living here.

Ten years ago, long before I moved in, the entire property was bought by a private company called Stena Fsatingheter (Stena Housing). Stena have decided to renovate the entire thing and raise the rent considerably. By their own calculation a third of the people living here now will have to move because they will not be able to afford the new rent.

Flying a pice of red fabric from your window means that you appose the new rent and demand that no one will have to move.

Gentrification is a big problem when the city sell out property that we sort of own collectivly to private companies that force poor people to move further and further away from the city center.

Älvsborgsbron

This is my neighbor, he is pain in my assholes... not

Röda sten

Gustav

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