Joelle and I

And also for this year my vacations are finished. Many people I've met on the way … some were already friends, some were new .

I could write for hours trying to tell you who I meet and where I was, but, as you probably know I'm not good in telling stories.

So just wanna say thanks to : Jan, Rebekka, Bugo, Vale, Gio, Anca (even if it didn't work), Joelle and all the people at the NEVA meeting, Linnea, Kenneth and all the Tjärnkvist family, Karsten, Liga, the lovely people in Ultervattnet, the backpackers at the Sunflower Hostel, Adam and of course to Swedish Police

Due I didn't have a camera with me there are no pictures of the vacations, except for this one …

All these "goodbye" recall me my time in Sweden, so I've decided to put some pictures on-line … check them out

As someone knows I've lived in Sweden for a while (eleven months) and when I've read this I realized I was there for too long

So, here we go:

You know you’ve been in Sweden too long when

• You think that riding a bicycle in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
• You regard it as sensible that the ice cream van comes around playing that annoying song when it is -15C.
• The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist (anywhere really!) is to look for the queue number machine. You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
• You accept that if someone wants to “follow” you home you don’t need to be afraid. They actually just want to walk you home.
• Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay
• You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
• Someone calls you a ”good moron” first thing in the morning and you smile acknowledgement.
• When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.
• You think that people who wear other colours apart from black, grey, white or blue are exhibitionists.
• You think blodpudding is good
• You think that pay 25 Kr (= 2.5€) for a can of beer at the supermarket is normal.