a day in the life of a latvian mom

I was inspired by my blogging friend Maria from Sweden and her beautiful post about lake to share what my brother is up to right now.

As I’m writing this, he’s somewhere deep in the Swedish wilderness, completely off-grid. Tents, campfires, no electricity… no extras … just nature.

This isn’t a one-time adventure either. He and his friends have been making this trip for several years now. They carefully buy all the necessary fishing permits and follow all the local regulations so they can fish for wild Atlantic salmon in Sweden’s famous rivers.

Sweden has many wild salmon rivers, and every year I eagerly wait for my brother to send me photos. The scenery is incredible—untouched forests, roaring water, and not much else. Maybe few bears 🙂

One of the rivers they’re fishing carries around 500 cubic meters of water every second. For my U.S. readers, that’s about 17,700 cubic feet of water per second (or roughly 132,000 gallons every second!). It’s hard to imagine that much water rushing by.

The nature there feels truly wild, and every year the weather is different. Sometimes it’s warm, sometimes it’s rainy, and sometimes it’s downright cold.

This year, their “bathroom” is simply the river itself… and the water temperature is only 12°C (about 54°F)!

I honestly don’t know how they manage it. That’s far too hardcore for me! I’d be wrapped in a blanket with a hot cup of tea instead.

Have you ever gone completely off-grid for a few days? Or is there one food you love that you think you’d get tired of if you had to eat it every single day?

Ilze

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