> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.novaugust.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Umeå - URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/umea/ - Published: 2015-06-03T05:24:00.000Z - Updated: 2016-01-30T22:52:56.000Z - Author: Matt Enlow - Tags: Europe, @jennopolis55, post, mountain biking, swimming, Europe 2015, sweden, Umea, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43 People's beer, brown cheese, mud, blood and mountain bikes. Yeah, this must be Umeå. Andrea has things [she wants to tell you about those ten days](https://hungryhen.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/a-visit-from-the-wild-villains-of-the-west/?ref=blog.novaugust.net). It's up to you who you listen to first, but make no mistake: you need to see her post. ### Biking Andrea and Martin reminded me how fun mountain biking is. They started my trip by putting me to work the day after I arrived. A different kind of work. ![Working at Bygdsiljum](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC01470.jpg) ![Driving to work](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050892.jpg) ![Andrea working Bygdsiljum](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050926.jpg) ![The end of work at Bygdsiljum](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC01518.jpg) After a day's work... We play. ![Martin at Bygdsiljum](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC01081.jpg) ![Jacke lifts a wheel](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050855.jpg) But then, what's being outside with your friends in the dirt and mud, if not play? And it was muddy, certainly. The bikes needed cleaning after every ride; I always took care to help Martin with that. ![Bike cleaning handstand](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060026.jpg) I even worked on cleaning the bikes at a garden along the path. ![Park handstand](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1020434.jpg) ### Mother's Day > "Hey Andrea, does 'Mors dag' mean 'Mother's Day?' > "Yeah, why? Oh shit!" ![Mother's Day Cake](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC02718.jpg) ![Mother's Day Acro](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC02723.jpg) ![Mother's Day Swim: Getting in](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC02753.jpg) ![Mother's Day Swim](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC02755.jpg) ### Hanging out ``` Hanging out with some Swedes Martin drives the car to Bygdsiljumbacken Bygdsiljum ``` Shit. I might need to work on the flow with that last line. ![Matt and Andrea in the car](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050828.jpg) ![Matt and Martin in the car](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050830.jpg) ![Matt, Andrea, and Martin in the car.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050827.jpg) ![Parkour](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050979.jpg) ![Matt, Andrea, and Martin in the car. Dunno.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1050832.jpg) ### Her Hessness The Hessness came, the Hessness saw, the Hessness conquered. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060614.jpg) ![Jenn on the wide track](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060037.jpg) ![Jenn crossing](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060247.jpg) ![Jenn cruising](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060047.jpg) ![Hess through trees](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060664-1.jpg) No cold, no May drizzle, no artsy inverted bathtub could ever hold her back. ![Jenn tubbing](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060676-Edit.jpg) So she went with us to Bygdsiljumbacken Bygdsiljum back, back.. back.. ### Back to work This's us on the 4x4, Jacke driving. It's probably a really weird photo if you don't know that. It's still kinda weird if you do. ![Jacke concerned](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060394.jpg) Back to work? and so back to play ![4 bikes at Bygdsiljum](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/DSC01042.jpg) ![The crew](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1020492.jpg) ### Art Maybe it's not all just some "flat little shit hole in the north of Sweden." Well, the flat part's apt. ![We require more energy](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060592.jpg) ![Courage, Wisdom, Power. But... more sides.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060654.jpg) ![A tree](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060672.jpg) ![Ghost armor](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060703.jpg) It was ten days, but the sun never did set. If I dig deep enough, there should be a metaphor for friendship here that I can tie to Jenn, to Martin, to Andrea. By now though, I hope that you can see that some things, especially the good things, don't need so many words. ![Martin sunset](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/P1060531.jpg) --- PS Fuck. Yes. Brown Cheese. ![Brown Cheese](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2015/06/IMG_20150526_085245-1.jpg)