Since I went to Oslo ten days ago, I didn't do anything special. But sometimes it's also good to let the routine come, and to appreciate some simple moments with our friends.
Dutch Fika with german food
Last week I've been invited to fika at Marloe's, after classes; There we had a warm tea, spoke together. And we ate… Spaetzle, a typical german dish made out of flour and cheese. That was great!
Slovakian dinner
On monday evening Michal invited us at his place to taste slovakian food. I have no idea about the name of the dishes we ate, but that was really good. Thank you Michal!
Today, I went with Markus to take some pictures of the university. The only lessons I have there are my swedish lessons (intensive swedish course level 1 in august, and now level 2 once a week). ATM all my technical courses take place on the campus of Norrköping.
But anyway, Linköping's campus is quite nice… I let you appreciate!
Last week-end, (10th-11th-12th september 2010), I went with some friends to the sunniest island of Sweden: Öland!
Öland is the 2nd largest island of Sweden, and is located around 250km from Linköping. We rented two cars on the friday,, we left Ryd around half past five pm, and reached our final destination some four hours later.
We were sleeping in a small guest house in Mörbylånga, on the western coast of the island. There we had a kitchen and everything to cook our meals… except the salt. Fortunatly, Patrizia had brought some with her :)
Guest house in Mörbylånga
On saturday we drove to the south of the island, where stands a charming lighthouse; moreover, the fauna of this part of Öland is very rich: a lot of migrating birds stops there on their way to the south of Europe. Then many swedish photographers like to get there too… we actually saw more cameras than birds!
Lighthouse on south of Öland
On sunday we first walked along the beach near our hostel, before getting back to the cars and driving to Kalmar, opposite the island. There we had a fika, visited the city… Some of us also visited the castle.
Baltic sea, from the castle of Kalmar
Then we drove back to Linköping… it was time to rest a bit :)
Many thanks to all those who organized and took part to this trip :-)
After our road trip of last week, we wanted to experience a new part of the swedish way of life: canoeing!
Step 1: Getting lost
We started our trip from Ryd at 10.30, to be at the canoe renting thing around 11, some 25km away. We got there around noon after 50km of driving to random directions… that's part of the experience, after all! Next time, we should maybe bring a map :)
Step 2: Paddling to the pic-nic area
We rented 4 canoes, for 3 persons each. The cost of the day-renting is quite low: only 200SEK/canoe! (around 20€). After some hesitations about the direction to take, we started to paddle in the river and we reached a fire place. There we completed step 3…
Step 3: Make a fire
Those who know me knows that i like to start fires… and I was not the only one today! So we set up a small fire close to the shore. We ate there, some of us swam also. Then we came back to the canoes, and started step 4!
Step 4: Paddling to some islands… and walk on the water!
After lunch we came back down the river to the lake, and paddled to two or three little islands. Some of us took a nap, some swam (again :p ), or made a race around the island. Around five, everyone was tired, so we decided to come back home. But we forgot step 5!
Is Jesus back?
Step 5: Don't joke about probabilities
The guy who rented us the canoes told us that we had 99% of chances to not capsize. This means that we had 1% of chances that a canoes capsize! And of course, this is what happend, some fifty meters before we reached the little harbour. Finally everybody survives, no electronic device was onboard… just a funny memory!
Canoes are not that stable, finally… :P
Bonus Track
A compilation of the day, by Clément :)
Thank you everybody…
… for this amazing and crazy trip! And many thanks to Anna, Maren, Clément and Casper for the pictures :)
No ducks were injured during this trip (even if we tried hard… :)
On Tuesday I had my first real lesson. It took place on the campus of Norrköping, 40km from Linköping.
Norrköping used to be an industrial city. Nowadays the old factory have been turned into university buildings. This buildings are spread in the city, where water is everywhere… a good thing to take nice pictures :)
Last saturday, we went for a short road trip of one day on the western part of Östergötland (Linköping is located in the middle of this region… it was not such a big distance to drive: around 200km globally.)
We left Ryd (that's where we live in Linköping) around 9:45, direction: Berg, and its locks! Two of us had already been there two weeks before, but we wanted to show this place to the others… good idea actually, the weather was way better than on the last time!
Then we moved to Motala, where we had lunch. The weather was not that good and we didn't found a place to swim, so we just took the direction of our next stop: Vadstena!
The group splitted in two: some visited the castle, and the rest of us decided to walk around the city, trying to grab one or two ducks for our dinner… that was nice!
We finished our day by a walk to a panorama on the Vättern lake, 2nd biggest lake in Sweden. There we had the chance to view the sun going down on the lake… I let you watch the diaporama below :))
