Adventures of Gino the Dog

Hi friends! Firstly, I understand I've taken a few weeks off. I am not sorry about it. You get what you pay for. BUT for those of you patiently waiting for the answer to the Hello Monkey Goes? confusion in my last post , the answer is Hello Monkey Goes Italian . Hello Monkey is a restaurant, and it's going  Italian.  It was all a clever marketing scheme and I guess it worked on me. So that's that. In this edition of Adventures of Gino the Dog, I report on the rapid changes ushered by the Spring, and then I go totally nerdy with language. Hold on to your hats, language nerds. Welcome Spring! Spring is officially here, and the changes have been exciting. Firstly, the days are getting longer FAST. We're getting as much as five minutes of extra sunlight each day. As one gets closer to the poles of the planet, the days get dramatically stretched or compressed in the Spring and Fall, repsectively. The process peaked on March 16th and 17th with five full extr...

Hello human friends! Another week has passed, and oshkoshbigosh it's March. Cold as it remains, we're seeing tiny little signs of Spring. The sun is sticking around a bit longer, and the vårblommar (spring flowers) are beginning to rear their little heads.  Me. Sniffing vårblommar. Who smells Spring coming? I do, because I have enhanced olfactory glands. This week, we discuss the ridiculous process of shipping a vehicle across the ocean, plus other antics my humans have gotten themselves into. No worries: this post is free of political commentary, so if discussions of partisan jockeying in the Swedish parliament and gun politics have repelled you in recent weeks, you can let your guard down...for now. First, a mystery.  This week, ManHuman took a walk through the older part of Gothenburg, burning time before an appointment to get his official Swedish ID card. By the way, I'm told that waiting to get a Swedish ID card is a bit like waiting in line a...