one week in sweden

Sweden is beautiful.
Too beautiful to fulfil my longing for my home and everyone there in a week.
If it was possible to stop the time, my week in Sweden would have been such a moment when a time stop would have been very appropriate in my opinion.
I so wanted more time to: soak up the sun, breath the fresh air, pick more raspberries and blueberries, spend more time with my beautiful family and with my dear friends, have more fikas, eat more of mums food, just chilling at the country house doing nothing, walk along the lakes and the ocean, people watch and just feel Swedish in the right environment.
I was seriously considering to go on strike the day we were returning back to HK and I was silently praying for a volcano eruption... But no volcano stopped us and I didn't go on strike... Maybe next time :)

Thank you all for making my week in Sweden such a beautiful memory. Will be back for more - soon I hope.

i'm back

A month.
That's how long it is since I wrote some words here.
Apologies.
Been busy.
Mostly with work - I could whinge again while telling you that the last two weeks I have worked 14 hours per day, but I'm not going to whinge.
It's Saturday. It's sunny.
And I'm back.

Update to follow.

can i whinge

Can I have a whinge?
Just a little one.
Please.

OK, so it's Friday night and instead of being at this cool pool party over looking this beautiful city I am sitting in front of the computer.

As I sigh and wish I wasn't sitting here I get a text message from my lovely Tiina. My travel partner.
Who has been on adventures without me.
In Sri Lanka (one of my favorite countries in the world).

Tiina writes: Hey Sweetie! Thanks for the Sri Lanka tips! I enjoyed a nice slice of cheesecake at Paradise Road Cafe today. I really love this country and need to go back to do some more touring around.

So now I'm even more annoyed over sitting in front of this computer.

The foreign babe answers Tiina: Oh I've been thinking of you so much, wondering how you were. Glad you enjoyed Paradise Road. So wish I could have been there with you. But instead I was sick all last week, and this week I had my boss in town and also had 2 new staff starting. Been busy busy and am in fact still working although it's Friday night and time is 11.33pm. Boo.

Then I think of my friend Marta who this very second is boarding a plane to go home to beautiful Sweden for 3 weeks.
Very jealous!
I haven't had a long holiday in years.
A week is what I usually manage to get off work over here. And during the week off, I'm usually working every day anyway... (Just like I did in India...)

Then I think of all my friends and colleagues in Sweden that have proper Summer holidays - because that is how we do it at home.
But it's not the way we do it in HK.
Here we work.
All the time.
This summer has just flown past so far and all I have done is worked.
Approximately 12 hours or more per day...

I need a break.
Really can't wait for next Friday - as it then will be me sitting on a plane on my way to Sweden.
One week of holidays coming up!
Yes I will still need to work during my holiday, but I will try to do as little work as possible.

Now I will stop complaining and let you have a nice weekend.
I only need to work for an hour or so tomorrow and a few hours on Sunday, so I will enjoy my weekend as much as I can as well.

Ciao.

counting down

I am counting down until touch down in Sweden!
Can't wait.
11 days to go!

not easy

Swedish is not easy to learn I have understood.
At least not for some...
After months of practice.
The line that was one of the first he learnt to say.
Then he tried to spell it in a text message the other night: Sur gött.
My response: What?
He: Yeah isn't that the way you spell sleep tight in Swedish?
Me: Nope. Sov gott, would have been correct.
Not even close.
Unless he has created new language...

chilling in India

My favourite shots from our trip - enjoy!

goa

After a few intense days it was chill out time in Goa for 2 days.
Very good timing as well since Ant managed to get a Delhi belly and needed to stay close to a toilet...
While Ant was doing what he was doing, I read a book by the pool and walked along the beach.


That was it, our holiday was over, but before I close the chapter India I will give you one more post on the subject chilling in India.
I would also like to say - now that we have had a taste of India we will go back for more!