A few days in Umeå... north of Sweden, 9 hours from Stockholm, the furthest north I have ever been! Max and I took the bus up to Umeå, his hometown, and it wasn't all that bad as I thought it would be. As the bus wasn't full we had a row to ourselves so managed to squeeze in some sleep. But most of the time we spent watching True Blood, a tv series we are both addicted to thanks to Emma from Eskilstuna! Also to kill the time I read Wicked and watched Prison ...

Stockholm… Max and I were in Stockholm for 1.5 days. We stayed at Ronja's and Robin's (Ollerup students) place which was lovely and was really great to see them. We met up with Max's friend (Oskar) the first night and he showed us around town which was quite nice at night though it was a little bit rainy. We then found a coffee place (Wayne's Coffee) and had ice-cream and coffee, was soooo good. The next day was a day spent in Stockholm. We started by visiti...

Eskilstuna… I met Max here in this little town about an hour away from Stockholm. They had the Nordic Fringe Festival where artists (circus, musical, theatre, etc) came together to perform in shows or on the streets for the public to see. Max and I saw many shows, we payed for some and then got a few free tickets for others (noice!). So we saw a few Variete Manegen shows… these are on every day and it's a mix of different performers. Some included silks, un...