Sunday, July 29, 2007
"Välkommen till Göteborgs enda Karaoke taxi"
I've had an awesome holiday. It started with 4 days in Gothenburg, visiting friends from Australia. We had BBQ's, went to an amusement park and went out partying. We even got to go with Gothenburg's one and only Karaoke taxi! It was so great to see Ted and Kaja (friends from Oz) again and fun to hang out with the old gang together with Ted's friends.
Monday, July 09, 2007
A week with a Cornish Rex
This week I've stayed at my sisters place. She lives on the south side of Stockholm, by Medborgarplatsen, an awesome place with tons of bars, cafés and shops. The reason I stayed there was to take care of her cat while she's on vacation. This was a true bargain - Stay in the coolest part of town, plus having a little Cornish Rex cat to hang out with.
But today I moved back into my little tiny apartment. Still nice to be home and not live in a suitcase. Wednesday morning I'm leaving for Gothenburg to visit Ted. It's me, Nat and her boyfriend going. We'll stay there until saturday. And on sunday I'm off to Croatia for two weeks! Whohoo!
Now I'm at Nat's place, we're gonna watch a movie and (hopefully) bake scones! We baked last last night and it was so good I hope she wants to do it again!
But today I moved back into my little tiny apartment. Still nice to be home and not live in a suitcase. Wednesday morning I'm leaving for Gothenburg to visit Ted. It's me, Nat and her boyfriend going. We'll stay there until saturday. And on sunday I'm off to Croatia for two weeks! Whohoo!
Now I'm at Nat's place, we're gonna watch a movie and (hopefully) bake scones! We baked last last night and it was so good I hope she wants to do it again!
Sunday, July 08, 2007
A culture shock you must experience
We have around 13 new employees at work. To make them feel welcome we arranged a little "get together" thursday night. First we wanted to take them to a really nice place in Old Town, but changed our minds the last minute and decided to go to place that was cheaper. One of the girls had heard of a place called Flamenco in the city. She said they were suppose to have cheap drinks and ok food.
We called the place and said we were about 20 people coming to eat and drink. The owner muttered and said in broken Swedish: "Eat? Nah...just drink. Can't be bothered": This was so weird we just had to go there...
When we got there we saw the owner, a tall man that looked kinda like the actor Peter Stormare. He was smoking a cigarette, wearing a golden rolex. had long hair and looked really grumpy.
We needed to cheer up and ordered a round of shots. They were about 3 dollars each which was pretty strange. Until we saw the bottles they came from. Clear bottles with home made labels saying: Strawberry, Melon, Blueberry...
We went downstairs where there was a sign saying: "Disko Klub". It was a small room with a bar, slot machines and the walls covered in posters of half naked Christina Aguilera and Roxette. Everything was covered in Christmas lights and the music was loud, playing hits from the 90's like: Be my lover and Informer. Apparently this bar was used in the movie Beck - Gamen. If you've seen it, you know what I mean!
The whole thing was so bad and looked so cheap, that it became good. We loved it and had a blast (since we had the whole Disko Klub to ourselves. I recommend everyone to go to Flamenco, maybe not by yourself, but if you're a big group. You'll experince something really different.
On a known Everything about Stockholm web site, the critics describe Flamenco as: "A culture shock you must experience". And "A place you go to if you want to hide".
We called the place and said we were about 20 people coming to eat and drink. The owner muttered and said in broken Swedish: "Eat? Nah...just drink. Can't be bothered": This was so weird we just had to go there...
When we got there we saw the owner, a tall man that looked kinda like the actor Peter Stormare. He was smoking a cigarette, wearing a golden rolex. had long hair and looked really grumpy.
We needed to cheer up and ordered a round of shots. They were about 3 dollars each which was pretty strange. Until we saw the bottles they came from. Clear bottles with home made labels saying: Strawberry, Melon, Blueberry...
We went downstairs where there was a sign saying: "Disko Klub". It was a small room with a bar, slot machines and the walls covered in posters of half naked Christina Aguilera and Roxette. Everything was covered in Christmas lights and the music was loud, playing hits from the 90's like: Be my lover and Informer. Apparently this bar was used in the movie Beck - Gamen. If you've seen it, you know what I mean!
The whole thing was so bad and looked so cheap, that it became good. We loved it and had a blast (since we had the whole Disko Klub to ourselves. I recommend everyone to go to Flamenco, maybe not by yourself, but if you're a big group. You'll experince something really different.
On a known Everything about Stockholm web site, the critics describe Flamenco as: "A culture shock you must experience". And "A place you go to if you want to hide".
Friday, July 06, 2007
Fraser Island Reunion
One of the stops on my east-coast-of-Australia-trip in July 2006 was Fraser Island. The largest sand island in the world, surrounded by sharks and stingrays and the home of dingoes. We were a group of 11 people, staying on the island for 3 days, driving around in a 4WD, camping and having a blast!
Now,one year later, 5 of us met up in Stockholm! (One of them was Kate, the "one in a million" story). Kate's sister came too.
We had such a great time and it felt like old times on Fraser, only this time in Vaxholm, Stockholm, where we had a BBQ and went to the local pub! So good to meet old friends again :)
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