Licorice / Lakrits

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Saklart maste jag tipsa om varldens basta butik: Lakritsroten. Ligger pa Sveavagen i Stockholm. De har allt man kan tanka sig med lakrits (och aven sadant man inte kan tanka sig, haha). Den har gangen visste jag vad jag ville ha innan jag gick dit och holl mig till det. Ar du ett lakritsmonster precis som jag sa maste du ga dit nar du ar i Stockholm!

Since I’m gonna be in Smaland and be busy all day today, I give you a timed/pre-made post. 
Of course I want to tell you about the worlds best store: Lakritsroten. It’s on Sveavagen in Stockholm. They have everything you can think of with licorice (and also stuff you can’t think of, haha). This time I knew what I wanted before I went there and I was sticking to that. If you are a licorice monster like me you just have to go there when you’re in Stockholm!

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Sveriges Nationaldag

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Igar var det Sveriges Nationaldag och det firade vi i Vetlanda i Smaland. Vi halsade pa min kara farmor och min faster med man. Hann aven saga hej till en av mina kusiner med. 
Vi kollade i gamla fotoalbum, uppdaterade om livet och at god mat. Vi promenerade bort till dar de hade Nationaldagsfirande, men vi kom mot slutet sa vi missade det mesta. Traffade folk som vi inte har sett pa lange lange och kollade gamla Smalandska klassrum. Nar vi kom tillbaka blev det rabarberpaj med vaniljsas (mmmmm!) innan vi tog bilen och akte tillbaka till Vastkusten igen. 

Yesterday it was Sweden’s National Day and we celebrated in Vetlanda in Smaland. Visit my dear grandma and my aunt with husband. Also got a chance to say hi to one of my cousins. 
We looked in old photo albums, updated about life and ate good food. We walked over to were they had National Day celebration, but we got there so late so we missed most of it. Met people we haven’t seen in a long long time and walked through old Smaland classrooms. When we came back we had rhubarb pie with vanilla sauce (mmmmm!) before we drove back to the West Coast again.

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Kebabpizza

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Nagot jag maste ata nar jag ar i Falkenberg ar kebabpizza. Storstaderna i Sverige har sa sjukt vidriga kebab-ratter, ingen kan gora en riktigt god kebabpizza/-rulle/-tallrik sa som Fbg. Jag bestaller garna med sallad pa, en sakallad ‘bagarens’. Och sasen ar sa god, det ar det som ar storsta skillnaden pa andra svenska stader och den stad jag vaxte upp i. Mmm! Orka dock inte ata upp hela. 
Imorgon ska jag till Smaland och traffa lite slaktingar. Jag kommer nog inte att ha tillgang till internet. Man kanner sig sa borta nar man inte har internet pa telefonen. Jag ar sa van vid att kunna svara pa mejl och aven uppdatera har pa hemsidan via mobilen, men har i Sverige har jag bara kontantkort. Det ar val iof ratt skont:)

Something I have to eat when I’m in Falkenberg is kebab pizza. The big cities in Sweden has disgusting kebab-dishes, noone can make really good kebab pizza/-roll/-plate like Fbg. I prefer to order with salad on, a so called ‘bagarens’. And the sauce is so good, that is the biggest difference between other Swedish cities and the city I grew up in. Mmm! Couldn’t finish it though. 
Tomorrow I’m going to Smaland to see relatives. I will probably not have access to internet. You feel so lost when you don’t have internet on your phone. I’m so used to be able to answer on emails or even update here on the website via the phone, but here in Sweden I only have a prepaid card. But that is one way kinda nice:)

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In Falkenberg

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Me and Jim at ‘Himlen’

Ar just nu hos mina foraldrar i Falkenberg. Det ar andra dagen som jag inte mar sa bra. Jag borjade kanna det i Stockholm, men nar jag kom hit sa slog det ut. Oron/nasa/hals ont och trott. Orkade inte ta mig in till stan igar, sa idag maste jag ta mig dit sa att jag kan fixa nytt pass och lite andra saker som behovs fixas nar jag ar i Sverige. 

At my parents place in Falkenberg now. It’s the second day of not feeling well. I started to feel it in Stockholm, but now when I got here it burst. Ear/nose/throat pain and tired. Didn’t manage to take myself in to city yesterday, so today I have to go there and get a new passport and some other things that needs to be done when I’m in Sweden. 

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Himlen

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Nagra bilder fran torsdagen i Stockholm da vi umgicks med mina kara foraldrar. Vi hangde pa Sodermalm nastan hela dagen. Vi besokte bl.a Och Himlen Dartill som gav oss en vacker utsikt over Stockholm city. Vi at inget dar, men jag kan rekommendera stallet om man vill ha en annan upplevelse av staden.
Mina foraldrar har ju varit i Stockholm sa manga ganger forut sa vi alla ville gora det som Jim ville gora. Men jag tror man ar ratt klar med staden efter bara nagra dagar och sedan kan man njuta av semestern resten av tiden. Sa vi promenerade mest runt och njot av bla himmel. 

Some pictures from Thursday in Stockholm when we spent time with my dear parents. We hung around on Sodermalm almost all day. One thing we went to was Och Himlen Dartill that gave us a beautiful view over the Stockholm city. We didn’t eat anything there, but I can recommend the place if you want a different experience of the city. 
My parent has been in Stockholm so many times before so we all wanted to do whatever Jim wanted to do. But I guess that you feel kinda done with the city after just few days and then you can just enjoy the vacation for the rest of the time. So we mostly walked around and enjoyed the blue sky. 

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