Blogs from Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden, Europe - page 8

Our journey to here, Uppsala SWEDEN, can only be described as a comedy of errors-one that is not yet amusing to us as we continue to recoup from our 48hr travel time, delayed flight, missed flight, and an ongoing drama of lost baggage that remains lost! Still we can manage a wry smile as we retell this tale-one that we hope will be a future source of amusement, rather than of woe (which our current jet lagged melodramatic selves dictate!) It was with an overwhelming sense of relief, moreso than excitement, that we climbed into the car with our trusty travel companions Leah and Tony to head to the airport on Friday afternoon. It had been by far the most stressful week we had experiened together in a very long time but at last we could ... read more

Allrighty, then, this is my first travelblog in English. For those of you who got this without previous notice, please forgive me for putting you on the list, just remove yourself if you don't want to get notifications on my trip! As the headline says, I'm in Uppsala. This is because it's a lot closer to the Arlanda airport, from which I'm tomorrow flying to New York, than my home is! This is creepy, my first time flying that many hours (still, only 7.5 hours and a direct flight: could be worse) and definitely the first time to the US. I must admit, some of my friends have said " 'scuse me? Where did you say you were going?" since I haven't really had the US as a priority no 1 on my travel list, but ... read more

I've been spending my first month since I quit my job at my parents house in N. Ireland lazing around, relaxing and meeting up with school friends. I've also managed to incorporate a trip to Sweden for a week (11th-19th March) to go skiing in Åre (pronounced 'or-a', I think...) which was wicked fun. I went with Jenny (a friend from university) and her boyfriend (Per) and friends (Bjorn, Nicholas, Hannah, Sarah, Andreas and finally Sandra and Hans - her sister and her sister's boyfriend). A big thanks to them for speaking English everytime I was in the room, putting up with questions about 'weird' swedish food, embarrassing me with their skiing technique (well, it's hardly fair, they learn to ski before they can walk...) and generally making me laugh all day long - was quite ... read more