When that Nordic winter sets in, Stockholm deputy bureau chief Pia Ohlin starts dreaming of being a California girl.
"If you spent half of your life in Canada and the other half in Sweden, slogging through months of darkness that is winter in the northern hemisphere, you too would dream of sunny days on a warm sandy beach," she writes.
"It's not the cold that gets to you living in Sweden....It's the darkness that hits you."
