my vacation in numbers

750 sek for 2 new passports where 1 got lost. 800 for 1 train and 2 buses to gothenburg. 2 of the tickets were used. 1 by me. 2 towns, 1 plane in between, 11 days, 1 festival, uncountable number of beer, 1 polish drink, 1 foam party. 2 currencies, 1250 zlotys, around 290 pics, 7 videos, in total 1 gb of memory used in camera. 3 blisters, 2 uncomfortable shoes, 1 pair of flipflops bought. 0 postcards sent. 3 albums put up in my web album.

That about summons it up! Check out my albums to see more.

way out west

today starts the way out west festival. i'm a bit hungover from yesterday, me and st patrick were at liseberg all day before meeting up with other people for beer at the flying barrell. stayed there for a while, before going to stage door, our old place when i lived here.

the festival starts at around 14 and before, i'm going to have lunch with ylvis, an old colleague of mine at the gothenburg post.

well, that's about all for now, i'll give you a full report when i'm back, with pictures and all.

ciao!

locked out

writing again from poland. still in warsaw, haven't gone to either sopot nor krakow. and it doesn't look like we will be going either. we have 2 days left to tourist, which is to short of time for any longer travels. but warsaw is very nice. we've been out drinking (way to much) and checking out some museums and other intresting sights.

right now, we've taken an easy night. went to see the new lynch movie (and yeah... 2h50min of shear horror, both ways). just came back to the hostel, where they seem to have misplaced the key to our dormitory (10 beds, useless in their case), and with no spare keys nor spare beds. hmm... quite the jam we're in. well, i'll tell you all how this exciting story evolves next time. ante vante's sitting next to me and looking quite bored of the whole situation.

poland so far

hey people! it's our 3rd day here in warsaw. and the city is really extrordinary. we've mostly been walking around (hungover yesterday but walked for 7 h!) and seen some touristy things, like the palace of culture and science, old town and new town, as some churches. we have some stuff left to see here, but there is still time. checked out the gay scene here. not to shabby, yet very different from the swedish one. though, tonight will be somewhat of a test, since it is friday. been to two bars so far, and are planning to go to a club that has a jacuzzi and bed and other weird no-no's for a club.

tomorrow, we're going to sopot, in the north of poland, between gdynia and gdansk. we long for the beach, bathing and more. the weather here has been so well, sunny and hot.
when we booked the trip, we felt very unique in going to poland on our vacation, but we've seen and heard swedish almost every day (and this, even though we were outside the city center)! so much for being unique, huh?!? still, it's a place to recommend and visit. we're very pleased.

well, just wanted to drop a line. take care and i'll see you back in sweden! hugs'n'kisses

the trip has started

went to the embassy yesterday, they helped me with an emergency passport, as i applied for a normal passport at the same time. took no more than 20 minutes. the emergency passport is, apparently first of all to help people get out of a country and home. but most countries accept that you travel with it for a limited time. and i'm just going to travel within schengen, so it shouldn't be that bad. *crossing fingers*

stressed to the busstation, to take the first bus. as it came to my turn in the queue, they had 1 seat left for the bus leaving in that exact moment. so i took it, sat on the bus for 7 hours(!) and met up with ante vante at the station. we had dinner, wine, bear and started planning our trip. it's going to be awesome! we leave tomorrow at 8.55 am. the flight is about 1h30min, so we have all day tomorrow getting acquainted with the town, settle in and plan the trip more in detail.

now, i'm going into town, have a sandwich in the sun, lunch with ante vante, meet up with elli-man, see if i can get into my old working place and say hi ho's.

last day @ work

last day at work, after this day, i'm going on vacation, gothenburg, poland and gothenburg again. erykah badu and other bands. my beloved thóra, my darling anton, fantastic patrik and other good and wonderful people. it will be so nice, so good, so much! =)

maybe i'll grab myself a beer tonight. =)

i'll try to update the blog while i'm gone, but no garanties. pics will come when i'm home again.

sunday. an achievements day!

yesterday was so good! woke up around 9, called my dad who came over for breakfast. well, he brought breakfast. we talked a bit and then we did some work on the kitchen. not much left, but to paint, or so.

Also went to my friends new apartment and helped him and his girlfriend to scrape the last of the wallpaper away in their livingroom as to paint in their bedroom. i took some pictures, but aren't allowed to show them.

sweet though was the walk there and back. a total of 9 km, i walked for about 1h40m. i'm feeling how my weight is slowly fading away. ;)

i also booked a trip for me and anton to polland! no charter, but polland seems cheap enough! and maybe not as bad as you might have heard about it. haha... well, we'll see.

ps. and sorry thóra, got so late yesterday, didn't take any pics of my kitchen. i'll do it tonight. ;) ds.

the sun is shining, the river is deep

in no more than a month from now, will i have my vacation. last year i spent the summer on iceland. where the temperature stayed at around 10 degrees celsius, with mostly grey skies and small, but constant raining. last year, sweden had the hottest summer recorded since the 40's or so, and it wasn't without some envy that i came back to sweden (i mistook it for jamaica at first, but jamaicans ain't that into eurovision). not that i didn't like spending my time on iceland. i just wanted the sweet hot weather to be were i was to.

well, i hoped that this summer would be hot and sunny, not only for me to enjoy a warm summer, but also because i was hoping that the charter-prices would go down, since people don't go from a hot country to another hot country, just for the sun.

but all through europe, the weather seems either to be hot desert sun or pouring rain. sweden is getting it's share of the latter. småland in the south of sweden has on several places been flooded. dams can't hold the water because of the heavy raining and the soil can't absorb the quantities of water, leaving buildings and roads open for devastaion. the same has and is still happening in england. in the southern and southeast regions of europe a heat wave has reached it's climax with over 40 degrees celsius. these weather conditions has killed more than 40 people.

also pakistan and india has had problems with the weather, a cyclone that has taken several lives and leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

maybe i wouldn't mind paying higher plane tickets now.

midsummer - the sequel

so, now it's monday and the weekend's gone! my friends came over, we didn't go out to bbq the food. It was hot and a litle bit humid, but the sun was behind big, grey clouds that looked like they wanted to pour some water on us. we started off by playing a game of uno. dolly and glenn were new to the game, so they were kind of frustrated when it didn't go so well. anders, a friend of mine, called and asked to come over. we ate, we talked, we did weird faces and eventually we went out (except dolly and glenn, who went home). anders ditched me and patrik, and i decided to go home.

the headache the next day was unbearable. but, then again, i had no one to blame but myself. what i hate most about being hung over is that i always wake up so damn early! i always wake up between 5-8, even though i can fall asleep as late 2. but i stayed in bed and slept on and off untill 2 pm before dragging my awful self to the shower. much refreshed after that, i went to my parents where mom was making her fabolous food and where my brother was watching some interesting chef that cursed alot on tv. dad wanted to clap my head, since i was hung over and thought that i would die out of taking in 2 panodil pills for my head ache. well, we came to the conclusion that it's a privilege to die around your loved ones and also in the comfort of my parents sofa. cause it's hell of a comfortable couch! i rested alot there and got better (note: less hung over). we played games and had a nice evening. i didn't want to go back to the mayhem my apartment had become from after the party (and i hate that about parties! you always clean it to tiptop shape, and then the next day, it's all one, bigger mess than before you cleaned!)so i spent the night at my hotel ma. didn't really come home until yesterday at around 5 pm. met robert and his girlfriend kristin first. we went in to town and had ourselves some coffee and very expensive sodas and juice. of course, i cleaned the apartment somewhat when i came home, so it could look respectable.

yippie! i'm getting my vacation! from july 30th to august 10th (or week 31 & 32). my first week will be well spent with anton on some charter vacation spot, whilst my 2nd week will be in gothenburg, meeting up with thóra and that festival i've talked about earlier, with erykah badu.

saturday nite out

my cousin hugrún and her friend berglind were here over the weekend and we went out on saturday. this is part of our nite out in stockholm (click on the picture).

vacation - a festivity

just booked traintickets to gothenburg in august. for the festival. and also for meeting up with thóra in gothenburg. anna, one of her best friends is getting married (mozel tov, honey!). gotta tell ya, i'm so excited! =)

smalltalk with the boss

my boss came over today to my workplace. we had a small chat about my future and expectations with manpower and such. the place i'm working @ now is somewhere closer to 'barely tolerant' on a scale from good to excruciating. yeah, yeah, nice people and all that, but let's face it. when you're stuck with a job description fitting a blind monkey, with his hands tied behind his back, it's not a feast for the intellect to going to work, exactly. but my boss is good, we're on the same page. then we smalltalked a bit. not everyday one smalltalks to the boss. we both talked about going to the george micheal concert held on june 29th.

ps. i just bought a ticket to the "way out west" festival on august 10-11! woohoo! ds.

charter?

me and my dear friend mr a-whole have for the past few days talked about taking a charter trip somewhere in the world. and all we know we want is sun, beach, booze and an all inclusive. i've gone thru all the major charter agencies and just losely looked through some destinations and i can't come over the fact that it's all so f*cking expensive! seriously! i'm ok with 3-4 thousand SEK per person, but double that??! hopefully we can take a last minute trip to the sun. we deserve it. and we need it. yumyum, let's see the sun!