Finally, summer has come to Sweden and Tess in Toulouse are back on the road, this time aiming to take over the islands on the east coast fo Sweden…so far, so good.

What a beautiful first day of the tour! We spent it at Landsort – the most southern island of the Stockholm archipelago, where we were invited to play at the opening of a big bakery inside the hostel run by Tess’s cousin Anne. Welcomed with open arms we managed both to do an highly appreciated gig and try everything the bakery had to offer. Literally everything…

We spent the afternoon swimming off the cliffs and sailing a boat from the middle ages with our new found friends Malva & Tuva Lo.

We then had another gig at the pub/restaurant ”Saltboden” which is located right by the little harbour. From where we stood we had the most beautiful view overlooking the sunset, and it was pure magic to perform in such an atmosphere.

It was a close to surreal feeling leaving Landsort with our own boat driving into the sunset with the whole restaurant lovingly waving goodbye and calling out ”Good luck in Gotland!” We all sat in silence smiling the whole way back to shore.

After an intense last weekend in Berlin calmer days in Copenhagen awaited us. We arrived in the middle of the night and eventually we found the wonderful Villa Villekulla- house which was well hidden within the garden. A real size lion was watching over the night-snacks our new host kindly had left our for us. Ulla is a charming lady who has won all of our hearts, party by taking care of us as royalties but mostly because she’s an inspiration in how to age in style, with an active life and a great sence of humour. It’s made us wonder if maybe there’s a cool artistic and witty old lady trapped inside every old lady who thinks it’s her obligation to only bake cakes and talk about flowers?



Rainy cold weather and a sick Tess made us slow down for a couple of days but on Thursday we had a indoor-candlelight-picnic-concert for an audience mostly consisting of Ullas friends and a big group of Copenhagen Couchsurfers from all over the world. A beautiful evening which we ended properly by practicing the morning-gymnastics-salsa-moves in a real danish salsa-club!

Scaringly close to something out of swedish movie ”Torsk på Tallinn” we also managed to store some great wines for the summer before leaving german and danish prices behind and spent a day in Malmö to meet up with our wonderful friend and coach Peter Tegnér for lunch and coffee.



At night we played at one of Malmö’s most popular restaurants/bars called Carib Kreol. We were warmly welcomed by the lovely manager Patrik and enjoyed their wonderful food and drinks before performing. The gig was different from our other experiences on the tour, performing in a noisy restaurant/bar meant struggling to catch peoples’ attention but we’re pleased with our job and we were very happy to see old friends in the audience!