tisdag 23 februari 2010

Invasion of the Bodycake Snatchers?

Öland is looking very beautiful covered in a thick layer of snow. Very silent. Very deserted. You don't see many other cars.

It suddenly struck me today that this would be the perfect setting for a zombie movie. The local delicacy (a kind of Swedish dumpling) are called bodycakes, which in itself sounds pretty spooky. And then one of the nearby villages is called Dödevi which roughly translated means: We are all dead here! Now there's a cheery adress!

There is something intrinsically eery about a holiday resort in the off-season. In the summer the camping sites are crowded and the roads are heaving with German cars pulling caravans. Just now there are just empty fields with the occasional horse, a few crows in the trees and once a day an enormous tractor that is struggling with the fairly impossible task of keeping the roads free from snow.

Enter zombies!!!

1 kommentar:

  1. Vill påpeka att sufixet "vi" i Dödevi är den fornnordiska benämningen för en offerlund. Känner du dig tryggare nu?

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