Stories of Home

Just came back from the cinema and The Adventures of Tintin, a nice movie but it was a bit boring when I in one of the initial scenes suddenly started to recognize the story and then remembered most of the plot. Cool movie anyway and pretty cool animations! But wouldn't it almost be cooler with a Spirou movie animated similarly?

Had kung-fu training this morning and Shifu wished to see some pictures from Sweden so I thought I could make a blogpost for my non-Swedish readers to see what Sweden looks like!

So this might be what some people think Sweden looks like and the last two winters it has looked like this outside. The picture is taken on my way home from the university in Linköping.

But Sweden is not just cold, after winter there is always spring and there is always that one special day when it suddenly gets warm enough for all scents to suddenly appear, coming from the cold and scentless winter you know that spring is here and the world will once again come to life and the ground suddenly bursts out with flowers.

It then slowly keeps getting warmer and sometime in May-June the more optimistic Swedes, like myself, start announcing that summer has arrived (this occurs about the same time as the temperature reaches 20 C). It's time for shorts and short sleeves!

The more hardened also starting bathing in the lakes at the beginning of the summer, it's a bit cold at times but very refreshing and it kind of feels like this:

But in general summer in Sweden is green, lush and very peaceful. Of course we have the occasional rain (or frequent rain as most people probably would call it).

Then in September it starts to get cold again, autumn comes with colorful leaves, rain and wind. Haven't found any good pictures displaying it but then it's probably also my least favorite season. So fast forwarding to November when the first snow often falls and then comes December with Christmas decorations,short, dark days and (hopefully) snow. And then comes the most important day of the year: my birthday! Okay, Christmas, but since my birthday is the 23 December it's rather close to being it.

And if you're lucky it's this white outside on Christmas Eve. Below is my sister posing in front of my parents house, and yes, Scandinavian women are hardcore enough to go in skirt when it's -10 C outside. Must be what's left from the Viking-women genes!

 Thought I could top this off with an old picture I found of me and my family. Miss you guys! But we'll see each other in just over a month!

Live long and prosper!