13 June, 2007

Trip to Stockholm along the Swedish south-east coast

26th of May:
Annina became a Rockstar by destroying the TV in our livingroom! She felled over the ever strechted cable and thanks to the shitty, instable construction of the tv-board the whole tv fell over and smashed on the floor. It was not just a little bit broken, so that you can maybe fix it - no, no - it was completely smashed with no chance to ever, ever fix it again. The whole inside of the TV was trans:"sprinkled" over the living room floor. It was somehow ironic that Annina who saved our TV from being thrown out of the window by our Swedish-Rockstars was the one who finally killed the TV.

27th of May:
On the night before our departure we had a very nice dinner with almost all the people from our corridor, Brice and Annina's parents(Maria & Helmut). After that we exchanged addresses, emails, msn- and Skype-contacts so that we can stay in contact. This sitting and talking with all the people from our corridor was very important for me and after some sad days before our departure I finally found a positive end with everybody. It was a kind of good-bye to all the nice people I met here and I am sure I will see some of them again. So finally some sadness about leaving Lund but even more happyness for our trip.

28th of May:
On Monday the 28th of May Annina and I left Lund definitely. There will probably be a comeback in the near future to visit friends like Brice, Kristina and Marie but for now we are done with the beautiful city of Lund. By the way: The 28th of May was the 4-year anniversary of the relationship between Annina and me. So after coming to Lund together, staying here for almost a year, living in the same room for half a year and still loving each other it was somehow "right" to end this year on our 4-year aniversary. We picked up Helmut and Maria, returned the keys to our rooms and started our holidays. On our first real travel day we visited the Skane-zoo, a place Annina and I have visited quite often during our year. This time we were lucky to see trans:"Moschusochsen" for the first time. Amazing animals! After that we drove on to Karlskrona which lies on the south coast of Sweden direct on the sea. It's quite a nice town with very steep straigt streets. It was also the first time in Sweden that I recognized lot's of trans:"Auto-Proleten", tuning up their cars with stupid stuff. Maybe the reason is that Karlskrona is the main base for the marine-forces of Sweden and therefore a lot of soldiers work here.
In the evening Helmut & Maria invited us to a really great Italian restaurant to celebrate our anniversary. The food was sooo good, you can't imagine. I had three kind of steaks with three kind of sauces and potatoes. Mhhhmmm.After that we slept on an lovely place we found last autumn. It was located directly on the beach of a lake, with toilets and a campfire and all that for free.

29th of May:
We made a tour through the "Glasriket", the swedish center of glass factories. This area exists since more than 200 years and has been the center for the Swedish glass production since then. The landscape made it a natural choice since there is only wood and water, both essential for glass production. Today there exist 15 factories, all within a very short distance. Of course it is a big tourist attraction but since we are still in pre-season it hasn't been to crowded. It was the second time there for Annina and me but we visited different factories than in autumn and the glass production is still so fascinating, it won't get boring too fast. Although there are 15 factories each of them has a very unique style and produces different items.
In the late afternoon we continued further on to Kalmar which lies on the east coast of Sweden and is the capital of Smaland (the south-east province). It was a suprisingly nice city with some very old houses and a really impressive castle.

30th of May:
We did some shopping for Annina and the car ;) before we went further north to a pleasing town on the east coast called Västervik. It's a summer paradise with the a wooping number of 5000 islands around it's coast and a very nice setting. The whole surrounding is very, very beautiful with lot's of sailing and motor boats all around. In the afternoon we have to hurry up a bit and therefore skip a nice coastal-road we planned to take and take the highway to a small village of Trosa, close to Stockholm. I am happy that this was the last day with a longer distance to drive. In the evening we found a camping place in an amazing beautiful setting. Surrounded by small islands, on the end of the street, sand beach and noise at all. If only the weather could change from grey and windy to sunny and warm, I would immediately go for a swim.

31th of May:
We head further to Stockholm. Thanks to a route-plan that we printed out before we left Lund we found the camping place immediately. We take the tube into the city and walk around the center, getting an overview of the city(Annina and I have been here before) and buying some souveniers. We are all quite tired that's why we think about a plan for the next day and go to bed as soon as possible.

1st of June:
Starting our "tourist-day" with a visit into the city hall. It's quite impressive and our guide has some interesting stories to tell about it. I am a little bit worried that we can't get into the tower because you would have an awesome view from there. Anyhow, the view from the windows to the opposite river-site is nice! But we have a tuff schedule, so we head on into the center of "Gamla Stan", the old city center, to visit the Nobel-Price museum. Some might know that the Nobel-prices are awareded in Stockholm in December every year. After the awards there is a huge dinner with all the price winners, the royal(snygg!) family and many other important people that is held in the city hall, so we heard some interesting facts about that as well. Again the guide in the museum was great and quite entertaining. While Maria&Helmut visited the Fram-museum we walked around and did some shopping. In the evening we gathered up for a good-bye dinner in a great Italian restaurant.

2nd of June:
Good-bye is seldom happy but it was not that bad since we will be home in 3 months anyway and we had a great week together. As a kind of a bad joke for Maria & Helmut the weather had changed to lovely warm and sunny on their last day. We were happy anyway. After we left the airport again, we went on to find a nice spot for us for one or two days to relax. Sightseeing is always quite straining. We found a really beautiful picknik place directly on a nice lake with a great view to the Skokloster-palace(old relatives of mine!) and never ending sunshine. The daylight is amazing right now! We are quite close to mid-summer, the sun is raising at around 03.15 right now and going down at about 22.30 but very slowly, so it never gets really dark.

3rd of June:
Sleeping, sunbathing, swimming(cold!) and reading. No more but it makes my day.

4th of June(Monday):
The weather should stay sunny and warm until at least the weekend. So we decide to head for Arvika and try to get our kanu a bit earlier to make as much use from the great weather as possible. The drive is quite straining, 400km but who was sleeping the last 2 days? We get there, everything works perfect, so we get our kanu a lot of papers to read, very good topographic maps and nice instructions how to avoid destroying the kanu :). We start tomorrow, so packing our stuff, preparing everything, getting fuel for the stove calculating food supplies and so on...

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Congrats on the 4 years guys, that's amazing!

13:21  
Blogger Nina said...

Heyho!

It is so nice that you mentioned Annina at least before the car... what did the car shop? I'm intrigued ;)

Hope your trip stays that awesome...
I miss you two "Schluchties" and I'm still thinking about our trip through Austria :) would be great :)

14:24  
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