Hotell Siesta-Karlskrona

... have been to have control what happens to the money they pump out. Because then Cambodia couldn’t have paid out impressive $3500 - $5300 PER MONTH salaries to their staff, in a country where a civil servant don’t earn more than $100 per month (that is not the corruption, just gross over-spending). This also explains why Cambodia was fiercely against having the trail in The Hague.
Soon the people in jail will die ...

... said the weather was lovely... except of sourese the day that I helped plant apple trees.. that day it rained!! Kalle and Marta had 3500 apple trees delivered frozen from Belgium, they had to sit in water for three days and then were to be planted in rows with a metre between each one. I was out there in the rain, digging holes and planting trees for at least five hours with my Farmor (dad's mum) who I have to admit is much stronger and fitter than me!

... went out with Jacqui and Rebecca that night to the 'new years review'. This is a locally produced show incorporating song and dance and a series of comedy sketches. They basically make fun of local characters and news events that have occurred during the year. Not being a local I didn't really 'get it' but it was still entertaining. My mum and Simon who had been travelling in Europe for the past 2 and a half weeks arrived by train at 10.30pm so we picked them ...

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.

... to build from and red was and is the cheapest paint! Back in the day only rich people could paint their house yellow so it became a status symbol but now it's just traditional and therefore popular. My dad's house is wooden on the outside as well as the inside his floor his walls his roof and most of his furniture is all made of wood. He has no stove as yet and cooks either on his BBQ or his 'ved spis' (wood fire stove) which of course ...

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 ...