Brev från Norr #21

Katarina Östholm is a cultural editor at the popular and widely read newspaper “Tidningen Ångermanland” here in Ångermanland. Recently she wanted to get to know us and learn about our motivation to move to northern Sweden and our plans with Konstlada, among others.

The lively and very inspired conversation lasted a good two and a half hours, Katarina photographed almost exactly as much as I would have done and the result is a veritable “home story”.

I think that slowly but surely we are about to arrive here in the north.

Here is the article in “Tidningen Ångermanland”:

Over the past few days and weeks, with the temperatures getting warmer, I haven't just been working on the new floor at Konstlada and improving my knowledge of timber construction, but have also made some progress in designing my website and integrating mail, newsletters, websites and social media.

Among other things, I was able to solve a language problem fairly elegantly. As is well known, I write my newsletter in German, but the number of my Swedish-speaking readers is naturally growing and I don't want to do without the international, English edition.

But a trilingual newsletter is out of the question; that would lead to utter text chaos.

Why not use AI sensibly here? My website is already automatically translated from the original English into Swedish and German, and with that, I have the solution: I will publish my newsletters as blogs. The desired language can then be easily chosen there.

yours

Markus