soluppgång

Soluppgång means sunrise. Apparently you can also just say "solup."

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I am sitting on my couch on Bergsunds Strand, eating "havre gryn" ("oats grain," aka oatmeal) with cranberries and walnuts, drinking earl gray tea, listening to Kate Nash (which reminds me of Lindsay sitting on my couch on Jaktvarvsplan), and watching the sun rise.

It is actually now a vaguely appropriate time for a sunrise. It's 7:20, and the sky is getting a lighter blotty blue although the sun won't actually rise until 7:43. It was amazing to get off the T-bana yesterday on the way back from the airport and find that it was still mostly light out, rolling J's huge Swiss Army bag along Bergsunds Strand at 4.

Now I have lightness to look forward to. I think I already wrote about this but by the time I leave at the very end of May, dawn will start at about 2:30 am and dusk will end at 11 pm. I've already made J promise that since I am missing high summer this time around, we will come back next June and ride the train way up north.