To sleep in a cochette was not bad either, you have little space but the beds are roomy enough to be able to turn a little and hard enough to get some good sleep. The best thing though was the sun waking you up in the morning. We woke up very early for once and i had for a long time never felt better. The view from the train was amazing, Germany is green and spacious and the further we go the greener it gets.

After changing train in Munich we were headed to Bologna

From Munich the landscape changed, suddenly we were in a valley with high mountains around us. We have arrived to the border of Austria. The architecture in the small villages we passed was fantastic, white stone houses with wooden roof and balconies. Some of the houses were built on hills in the rolling landscape which makes you wonder, how they manage to built them in first place? We could see the trees blom at the same time as we saw snow on the mountain tops. Austria is absolutely amazing during this time of year, the contrast of the landscape cannot be described perfectly, it must be seen!

It was not long ago it was a “must” for us scandinavians to take a Europetrip by train, and i feel that that tradition of teenages from Sweden have been lost. But this is what the people born in the 1940´s are talking about – their train hoping experience. And i am more than delight to experience this phenomena before it is gone! So on thuesday we will leave from  Malmö down to Copenhagen down to Munich and further down to Bologna and then Rome. We will thereafter continue our trip down to Messina on sicily and hopefully in the end reach Malta. One might think that i was upset that this trip was cancelled but i am not angry at all. I am just actually happy that everything is not happening as it is planned. Even though i would love to be in Malta at the momnet it is just so that i am so glad things are still happening out side of the box. The sociey is pre-planned too much and i cannot really fit in to that society, becasue i love spontaneity and if i would ever go on this kind of train hopping tour, this time might as well be it!

I really hope that the people at Iceland are aright, and unfortunatley we do not get enough of information what is happening on the island on the news. The only thing they are focusing on is the problem wih the flights!! I have my thoughts of the people of Iceland and wish them all the best in this situation! Hopefully this event will make us people start re-think of what is the most important thing in the world – fast transportation or security?

I am pretty sure all of us will choose security, no?

After hours on the phone with my beloved friends, my craving have increased so much to go away – that i would do anything to do it! But i would not go anywhere at the same time. My other craving is the sun. After one year in darkness (or most of that year), i need to get that sun in my face again. I have always believed that the people from the North have been sun worshipers, we travel a lot and often to sunny places. It is, i must say, not usual that we go further North to fulfill our needs. If evidence will show that the Northern people have not been sun worshipers, at least i am.

The sun fulfills everything i need and most importantly gives me the energy to continue a day without complaining. I see life with new eyes, when i have the sun above me. The cravings and temptations can in most cases often just pass if we fulfill them. It might be so, that i need to fullfill mine – soon!

I am one of those that thinks street musicians are lovely, even though i do not give them a coin every time i pass, i think they give the city a spirit. a spirit which the tourist loves and crave for – cuz how boring is not the streets when the only think you can hear, is the traffic?

With this new law of order were reinforced, new things are happening around town. More street musicians are actually playing (during legal hours), a street musician day were organized (the day the law were inforced) and the musicians have found new ground to stand on: the trams!

To hear music while riding the tram a couple of stops is just the most wonderful thing that could happened. The ride, where most people just look out in the mist of their own thoughts have transformed to a jolly session of music. It wakes you up, you start smiling and in all fairness, what could be better than some live music on a boring trip back and forward to work. It is absolutely wonderful!

Lets hope the tram musician would not be banned from tram number 9, towards Angered!

After 9 years in primary and secondary school, with low marks and a shallow interset in what a book could offer. I am here. with a Master Degree, with good grades and even though i am still blond – i am not stupid!

It might be harsh to hear someone say that they saw themself as stupid. But seriously, that is how i feelt in so many years and even though i did not really care in primary, secondary or junior high school – of course i had the feeling with me when i started University. And that feeling is not a nice one. But i proved them wrong. My evil swedish teacher (who said i could not write in swedish), my awful physics teacher (who refuse to answer my “stuped” questions, when he could not explain how things worked so i could understand), my chemistry teacher that just put all the girls down and reminded us (all the time) – that we would never pass the test!

I am amazed over myself, do not really know how this happened or how i manage to pull these thesis and essays trough. But obviously i do know what i am doing….which feels nice!

When looking back on the past Christmases, they have not been so jolly and lovely as i wishes Christmas to be. They have been intense, they have been very stressful and they have been very sad and lonely. This year, as it looks like at the moment, is no different to the past ones. My Christmas will be stressful, i cannot say anything about that and i cannot blame anyone because i planned it that way but I will not be alone or sad this year as i was in the past years. But for my friends around me, this will be the beginning of hard decisions and hard times. The decisions they must make is nothing you wish your enemy. They are hard and i just wish i could help them somehow. But i cannot! I am that kind of person that feel bad when my closes friends feel bad, and i do feel weak and lost when i cannot do anything for them. How could i help people, when they need to decide what to do next? How can i help them when they look so sad and destroyed, when i cannot take the decision for them. I just wish everything will be aright soon. No one needs the pressure that life can put on you, even though you had everything, that would not mean that you cannot lose it all any second. I hope that the hard time will disappear soon for my friends. Make some light shine for them, so that they know what to fight for!

I am thinking of you and crossing my fingers that the wind will turn any second now! ! am afraid that is everything i could do!

20th of December – Take the late train up to Gothenburg

21st of December – work

22nd of December – work

23rd of December – work

24th of December – Take an early train to Tranås (4 hours from Gothenburg)

26th of December – The annual dinner with the family. Late at night, take the train back to Gothenburg.

27th of December – Work

28th of December – pack everything down in the apartment

29th of december – Move all the stuff and Clean the apartment – hand in the keys (?)

30th of December – probably working or cleaning the old apartment

31st of december – time to sleep??

Happy new year!!!

This is the third year i have been screwing my nice and calm Christmas holidays….i just have to learn one day….But Merry Christmas to you all