More Stockholm
We saw a bit of Stockholm over the next three days - but mostly we continued to just get our energy back. We did have an opportunity to meet yet one final Norwegian friend - and his daughter - in Stockholm. This is the last story of Janet's Norwegian connections. You may recall that we said earlier that Janet made a second connection beyond Carl from her original 1995 posting. That is Erlend and here is that story.
He sent her note because his family name was also the same as Janet's family - but we found no evidence of them being related. That said, he stayed in touched and one day soon after we moved to Greenwich and before our first Norway trip, Janet extended an invitation to him to visit. Instantly he responded "my girlfriend and I will be there in (say) two weeks. They arrived - a 9 year old and a 17 year old - and they were far and away the most adventuresome guests we entertained in the Metro.
We stayed in touch with him and Janet saw him once on a subsequent visit. We then spent time with him and his new wife in 2008 (she was then pregnant with the now seven year old daughter we just met) but as is often the case that marriage did not work out. That's how it came to be that just Erlend and Sofia came alone to visit us in Stockholm.
He sent her note because his family name was also the same as Janet's family - but we found no evidence of them being related. That said, he stayed in touched and one day soon after we moved to Greenwich and before our first Norway trip, Janet extended an invitation to him to visit. Instantly he responded "my girlfriend and I will be there in (say) two weeks. They arrived - a 9 year old and a 17 year old - and they were far and away the most adventuresome guests we entertained in the Metro.
We stayed in touch with him and Janet saw him once on a subsequent visit. We then spent time with him and his new wife in 2008 (she was then pregnant with the now seven year old daughter we just met) but as is often the case that marriage did not work out. That's how it came to be that just Erlend and Sofia came alone to visit us in Stockholm.