Hotell Aston Karlskrona

... Most of the things we did I had done before (and therefore improved my expert-status). I took this opportunity to visit the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh that Joel and I went to but turned at the entrance because we were afraid we would pay to see yet another temple. Kieu and I went to the Royal Palace, determined to go in. We turned at the entrance when it was a sign saying that the Royal Palace was closed and we only could see some other ...

... coming. Since I had already signed up I decided to go anyway just for the experience. I met lots of teachers teaching all over the place, attended some information sessions and had an interview for a job in Portugal and one in Dusseldorf (neither of which I was actually qualified for and therefor had any chance of getting).

Saturday night was a social event, drinks for an hour beween 6.30 and 7.30. Just a chance for people to chat informally. I ...

Friday school finished at 12pm which was FANTASTIC! Plus the fact that I didn;t have to teach. We had from time (as in liek tutor groups) all morning where they watched movies and did secret santa type things and then whole school assembly. Being casual day as well as the last day of school meant that there was a general air of pandemonium in the air. After dismissal we all headed down to the local pub which is conveniently located across the road from the train ...

Most of our time in Sweden was spent eating.. and doing some cooking. Anna, Johan and Karl-Oskar came down for the weekend so we spent some time at Knipehall. Had a big dinner Saturday night to which Palle surprised everyone by turning up to! That's my uncle, my dad's older brother that we had stayed with just a couple of weeks earlier in Italy. He hadn't been in Sweden in 6 years but was there just over the ...

... eating a whole lot of yabbies and drinking a whole lot of alcohol. The whole week I was really quite preoccupied with the fact that I was going to Greece and meeting Dave so I don't really have anything more to say! I left on a train Tuesday afternoon and went and stayed the night with Linn and Johan in Malmo before taking the train over the bridge to Copenhagen the next day.

... joined us to continue the party. We eventually left for the purpose of experiencing Karlskrona's 'not so happening' nightlife..! Despite being peak summer time the weather has been very average and unfortunately not warm enough to hit the so called beach... more commonly known as swimming place as beaches as I know them do not really exist here. Instead it's big rocks/cliffs right to the waters edge or some poor excuse for sand and a slimy ...

Hög tid för Karlskrona, som anlades från grunden av Karl den XI som örlogshamn och försvarsanläggning. Sommarvärme men en del hotfulla moln. Tyvärr var själva hamndelen inte tillgänglig för turistande (i alla fall inte oanmält, turer kunde ordnas via turistbyrån) då området fortfarande är militärt aktivt. Besökte det fina marina muséet och prövade ...

Kom iväg strax efter tio, på vägen norrut första stopp i Ravlunda och besök på dess kyrka som likt många andra här i Skåne har den typiska trappstegsgavel som även ses på Glimmingehus. På denna kyrkogård vilar Fritiof Piraten under en tämligen speciell gravsten. Glasspaus i Absoluts födelseort Åhus med nya burkfynd på antikaffären. Många mil senare, via Blekinge in i Småland och tillslut ...

... group singing! I didn't know many people and left with Anna around 1am. Others, including my dad and uncle partied on until 8am! I spent Sunday night at another aunties place, Jacqui, my mums younger sister. The next day my cousin Rebecca and I went into town with my Grandma for lunch followed by a bit of shopping. Being a bit sick of the clothes I had been wearing for the last three months and there being a huge sale on I did go a bit overboard!!

... out she pretty much had my desk at Klohn before I came. Those two crazy animals are off touring Croatia, Serbia and India now. Good luck! North Poland is beautifully flat! Lots of gentle farmland. It was nice to suddenly be cranking out 130 km days. Makes you feel like you're actually getting somewhere. That somewhere was Scandinavia as it turns out. After much ...