Sweden is lovely, and not nearly as expensive as I was expecting - sure, some things are expensive, but the staples - vegetables - are actually cheaper than in the UK, I think.
I arrived in to Copenhagen on Friday afternoon, and took the train across to Sweden. The first 10 minutes of the trip were best - across the bridge to Malmo, with clear blue skies, with a wind farm of maybe 50 turbines out at sea, all turning. An awesome sight.
The next day I went to the garage sale of stuff from previous years, organised for this year's students, which was fun - they had a sprint start from up the street to see who would get the best stuff. But actually a lot of people were more interested in coffee and having a chat!!
Then on Sunday we went out to a nearby eco-farm, by bike, which was great as well - I haven't even been on a bicycle for 6 months so it was nice to stretch those muscles. When we arrived we harvested Calendula heads, while other people weeded, or picked beans, beetroot... Mmm! There is also a little shop there, so we picked up fruit and veg.
Yesterday, Kara had lectures all day, so I lazed around in the morning, and had a wander round town in the afternoon. I'm reading a great book, the Secret Life of Trees, so I enjoyed getting stuck into that while being outside and looking at trees! The book describes how the families and species are related, where the great branching points in their evolution occurred, and so on.
And this morning... well, we are staying over at a campsite, and the whole of Karlskrona is on islands, so we hired a canoe and paddled across to Kara's university.
It's really lovely, after the rain-fest that was Ireland, to be able to go outside in the sun!
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