So I am in Sweden, a country with little to no internet

I arrived in Copenhagen about a week ago and I sure thought that I would be able to update these posts pretty frequently. Boy I was wrong. The countryside and area of Sweden we are staying in, Klippan Commun (which I assume is a rough sort of county designation) is spectacularly beautiful. When we pulled onto the farm where we are renting a house, I literally gasped with wonder. We are in such a bucolic picturesque setting that it is nearly impossible to describe. Here's a picture of the house we are (actually "were" but that's a story for another post). The family owns about 1,000 acres of farm land and we are staying in what once was a old mill (one of seven on the property).


As you can see, completely perfect in so many ways. However, I have also come to learn that we are staying in the equivalent of hicks-ville, Sweden. Think the farmlands of Iowa or Nebraska. Actually, it really pretty much looks like Wisconsin, except the architecture is much better and well kept and everyone drives new Volvos. This has the side-effect such that we have no internet or phone for miles and there is no one around besides older people who still work on the farms and teenagers who haven't been allowed to leave for the bigger cities yet. Very strange and in many ways confining. It is a magical place to vacation but not such a great place to get work done or meet people. Oh well. It's Sweden for Chrissake. How much complaining can I really do?