first is a photo of me knitting in the cafe I love, which is the last photo...
I see my town name everywhere
Photo of me waiting for the bus
Lindenberries at the market!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
just a few more pictures
first is a photo of me knitting in the cafe I love, which is the last photo...
I see my town name everywhere
Photo of me waiting for the bus
Lindenberries at the market!
I love Gothenburg!
Now I know where to go if I need creative influence, comfort and the best vegetarian food in Sweden...Gothenburg!
I felt so comfortable and happy there is was amazing, I proclaimed my love for the city 30 minutes after I arrived at the train station and made me way with Elin to one of her favorite cafes...it was pouring rain but the atmosphere of the city was so welcoming , I had the same feelings I get from Montreal, so many wonderful boutiques , cafes , and galleries soul food to the aspiring entrepreneur!
Elin and I had a fika, then she showed me a great second hand shop! Just looking at those places fills me with joy...and I found circle knitting needles....here comes a knitted skirt!
We then met up with her boyfriend Ragnar and some other Icelandic people at a bar where I experienced my first "afterwork" many bars and restaurants have this on Friday evenings, you buy a beverage (in our case it was 2 for 1 draught) and you get a plate for a buffet table...they you just eat and drink .... Swedish people loves them some buffet styles....restaurants are saving on servers wages! smart!
So I ended up getting a little tipsy on account of the 2 for 1 beer and up until the evening I could count the drinks I've had in Sweden on one hand!...anyhoo I did a good job of being drunk , Elin and Ragnar and i giggled to the train station to meet her Dad who was arriving on a business trip , he bought us all a drink at the hotel bar....then the three of us giggled our way to Ragnar's to eat dried fish with butter and have shots of a mysterious Icelandic liquor!Elin and Ragnar used to live together in Gotenburg but she now takes graphic design in the engineering building next to mine in Jönköping, she said she really really misses the city anf Ragnar, but she is happy she moved to Jönköping cause she got to meet Karin and I! She is sooo sweet we have so much in common eventhough we grew up worlds apart from each other.
Ragnar, Elin and Karin on Elin's birthday!
~So Saturday in Gothenburg , I awoke ....early....with a bit of a hangover but a manageable one...had a great breakie with Ragnar and Elin and she circled streets for me to explore ....we went downtown to meet up with her dad and then I went off on my own to EXPLORE!
The shops were so neat, I spent 2 hours in a vinyl shop listening to swedish girl folk bands on the customer turntables...I think the guys that worked there may have thought that I was in the music business, or so I like to imagine ....they were really helpful and goofy! I was sooo hungry after looking at records , hungry and forgetful...I left my camera in the shop ...Ragnar is going to pick it up for me with instructions to act as though I am in the music business!! hehehehe.....I made my way to the vegetarian restaurant that Elin, the record shop guys and second hand store owner all recommended...and for good reason.....It was the BEST EXPERIENCE of MY LIFE!.......
Solrosa...step 1: order 1 of 4 entrees all vegetarin one vegan ...all sounding delicious, I picked a smaller entree of Leek and potato soup...step 2: go to the best salad bar you have ever seen , it's actually just a table with big bowls with the most beautiful and tasty assorted salads and salad fixings...couscous and olive salad, potato and cucumber salad, chickpea, ghnocci, things i didn't know....all sooo good! And bread baked with cumin seeds and homemade salad dressings....step 3: EAT! I sat on a stool by the window dancing my fork around in the air and waging my tail!! I had two nice salad helpings.....the best part is that all this plus a coffee cost me $7.50...the most expensive entre was 10.50...these are not the kinda prices I have been seeing for food!
Anyway not only did I want to stay in Gothenburg another day just to go to the restaurant, and I planned my birthday consisting of going there, someday I WILL open this restaurant in Canada!
I decided not to stay another night but to go to Gotenburg when I feel low, I walked around for a long time (walking off all the food I ate) I was sad I didn't have my camera it is stunning there, I missed my first train cause I thought 6 minutes would be enough time to get some of the chocolate balls I had when I first arrived in Sweden....ooops, had to wait 3 hours for the next rain so I sat by the canal and wrote Laura a letter !
Okay this post is way too long just such a great experience I could write forever!
Love everyone xoxoxox
I felt so comfortable and happy there is was amazing, I proclaimed my love for the city 30 minutes after I arrived at the train station and made me way with Elin to one of her favorite cafes...it was pouring rain but the atmosphere of the city was so welcoming , I had the same feelings I get from Montreal, so many wonderful boutiques , cafes , and galleries soul food to the aspiring entrepreneur!
Elin and I had a fika, then she showed me a great second hand shop! Just looking at those places fills me with joy...and I found circle knitting needles....here comes a knitted skirt!
We then met up with her boyfriend Ragnar and some other Icelandic people at a bar where I experienced my first "afterwork" many bars and restaurants have this on Friday evenings, you buy a beverage (in our case it was 2 for 1 draught) and you get a plate for a buffet table...they you just eat and drink .... Swedish people loves them some buffet styles....restaurants are saving on servers wages! smart!
So I ended up getting a little tipsy on account of the 2 for 1 beer and up until the evening I could count the drinks I've had in Sweden on one hand!...anyhoo I did a good job of being drunk , Elin and Ragnar and i giggled to the train station to meet her Dad who was arriving on a business trip , he bought us all a drink at the hotel bar....then the three of us giggled our way to Ragnar's to eat dried fish with butter and have shots of a mysterious Icelandic liquor!Elin and Ragnar used to live together in Gotenburg but she now takes graphic design in the engineering building next to mine in Jönköping, she said she really really misses the city anf Ragnar, but she is happy she moved to Jönköping cause she got to meet Karin and I! She is sooo sweet we have so much in common eventhough we grew up worlds apart from each other.
Ragnar, Elin and Karin on Elin's birthday!~So Saturday in Gothenburg , I awoke ....early....with a bit of a hangover but a manageable one...had a great breakie with Ragnar and Elin and she circled streets for me to explore ....we went downtown to meet up with her dad and then I went off on my own to EXPLORE!
The shops were so neat, I spent 2 hours in a vinyl shop listening to swedish girl folk bands on the customer turntables...I think the guys that worked there may have thought that I was in the music business, or so I like to imagine ....they were really helpful and goofy! I was sooo hungry after looking at records , hungry and forgetful...I left my camera in the shop ...Ragnar is going to pick it up for me with instructions to act as though I am in the music business!! hehehehe.....I made my way to the vegetarian restaurant that Elin, the record shop guys and second hand store owner all recommended...and for good reason.....It was the BEST EXPERIENCE of MY LIFE!.......
Solrosa...step 1: order 1 of 4 entrees all vegetarin one vegan ...all sounding delicious, I picked a smaller entree of Leek and potato soup...step 2: go to the best salad bar you have ever seen , it's actually just a table with big bowls with the most beautiful and tasty assorted salads and salad fixings...couscous and olive salad, potato and cucumber salad, chickpea, ghnocci, things i didn't know....all sooo good! And bread baked with cumin seeds and homemade salad dressings....step 3: EAT! I sat on a stool by the window dancing my fork around in the air and waging my tail!! I had two nice salad helpings.....the best part is that all this plus a coffee cost me $7.50...the most expensive entre was 10.50...these are not the kinda prices I have been seeing for food!
Anyway not only did I want to stay in Gothenburg another day just to go to the restaurant, and I planned my birthday consisting of going there, someday I WILL open this restaurant in Canada!
I decided not to stay another night but to go to Gotenburg when I feel low, I walked around for a long time (walking off all the food I ate) I was sad I didn't have my camera it is stunning there, I missed my first train cause I thought 6 minutes would be enough time to get some of the chocolate balls I had when I first arrived in Sweden....ooops, had to wait 3 hours for the next rain so I sat by the canal and wrote Laura a letter !
Okay this post is way too long just such a great experience I could write forever!
Love everyone xoxoxox
Monday, September 17, 2007
Scones the international bringing together people treat
Last week was full of scones my wonderful friend Karin baked the goodies and had people over on thursday and friday , I brought strawberry jam to show my support ...delicious!
Food brought me to Karin and Elin's place on Wednesday as well, that night I made eggplant rolls with ricotta cheese and tomato sauce yumm.. oh dear all my social activities revolve around food ... Thursday afternoon Elin (from Iceland) and I met for our very first knitting fika (I made sandwhiches with roasted red pepper/red onion/dried apricots and ricotta!) it was great we talked about movies and food! oh dear ...I swear I'm not fat yet, but my tummy does this cute little fullness bulge in my highwaisted skirts that I actually enjoy!
I have successfully become a regular customer at the cafe, the owner always asks if I want "the usual" ... this means a lot to me for some odd reason.... on Saturday I went to the market to get my veggies and fruit and stopped by the cafe afterwards...a British man came up and asked if he could sit down and speak English with me .... he had lived in Jönköping for 2 years but hadn't tried learning Swedish , I brought up how some British people are fed up with their immigration policies partly because of the lack of integration effort of certain immigrants...he agreed fully ....but didn't get the irony...
I went home Saturday made some chili, finished reading Nick Hornby's High Fidelity ....do you ever find yourself thinking in the same voice as the narrative of the current book you are reading ... I do so much .... now I have to be even more selective on what I read because some narritives are just annoying to think in..... Now I am reading Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray ....so good I spent most of yesterday reading it ... oh sundays
I got some great flannel fabric at the thrift store this weekend so tomorrow I am going to Karin's to learn how to use her serger and finish a dress I've started...
School is good
Ciao
Natalie
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Today is a good day
Oh joy !
Oh bliss!
I finally found a cafe that makes americanos, now I can sit in the cute cafe and really enjoy myself!
The owner is a very nice lady as well, I think it will become the meeting spot for knitting fika that some friends and I are planning...fika is a swedish word for coffee meeting!
I have been knitting away on the bus everyday making a scarf that is black and white! Oh Grandma Jean will be proud when I write her to say that I can knit multi colors!
Tomorrow is thrift store day , on my list is a curling iron and circular knitting needles, I am going to be taught by a friend , Elin from Iceland, how to make legwarmers and maybe even a skirt like the one she was wearing when I met her...so neat! I will also be looking for more fabric and buttons. Currently I am working on a vest with short sleeves, I am amazing myself with my free form sewing!
Last night I went to a meeting with the university Student TV group, they put together 4 shows a year that are broadcated on the local televison station, we started making plans for a halloween show, I am excited to shoot video and edit again I crave editing so badly ...it's really worrisome!
I have been writing lots of songs and today I met with a professor at the music department to see if there is a way I can record them, in a couple of weeks a recording station will be put together and I will able to use it! I want to record a handful of songs to make a little disc. My friend Karin works at a cool vintage shop on thursdays I am going to start to bring Daisy, the guitar, with me to incorporate music into my visits! Exciting stuff! I'm trying to do and then say but this made my day so I had to indulge!
I don't have class today so that is nice , I have been busy with school passed in a group paper yesterday and have another project due next week , classes meetings and readings ...busy! But enjoyable as well!
Okay I am going to go to the museum now because starting today it is free admission for the winter, I am going to absorb some Johanna Billing wondernous again and maybe venture around the rest of the museum as well!
Ciao
Natalie
Oh bliss!
I finally found a cafe that makes americanos, now I can sit in the cute cafe and really enjoy myself!
The owner is a very nice lady as well, I think it will become the meeting spot for knitting fika that some friends and I are planning...fika is a swedish word for coffee meeting!
I have been knitting away on the bus everyday making a scarf that is black and white! Oh Grandma Jean will be proud when I write her to say that I can knit multi colors!
Tomorrow is thrift store day , on my list is a curling iron and circular knitting needles, I am going to be taught by a friend , Elin from Iceland, how to make legwarmers and maybe even a skirt like the one she was wearing when I met her...so neat! I will also be looking for more fabric and buttons. Currently I am working on a vest with short sleeves, I am amazing myself with my free form sewing!
Last night I went to a meeting with the university Student TV group, they put together 4 shows a year that are broadcated on the local televison station, we started making plans for a halloween show, I am excited to shoot video and edit again I crave editing so badly ...it's really worrisome!
I have been writing lots of songs and today I met with a professor at the music department to see if there is a way I can record them, in a couple of weeks a recording station will be put together and I will able to use it! I want to record a handful of songs to make a little disc. My friend Karin works at a cool vintage shop on thursdays I am going to start to bring Daisy, the guitar, with me to incorporate music into my visits! Exciting stuff! I'm trying to do and then say but this made my day so I had to indulge!
I don't have class today so that is nice , I have been busy with school passed in a group paper yesterday and have another project due next week , classes meetings and readings ...busy! But enjoyable as well!
Okay I am going to go to the museum now because starting today it is free admission for the winter, I am going to absorb some Johanna Billing wondernous again and maybe venture around the rest of the museum as well!
Ciao
Natalie
Monday, September 10, 2007
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