Ciao ragazzi! Imagine the joy I felt installing the Italian keyboard on my mobile phone because yes people, I’ve finally gone and done it. I’ve signed up for Italian lessons. The sexiest language in the world by far. And I’m loving every lesson. Scary as hell getting back behind a school bench but what is […]
Well peeps, it’s about that time. Below you’ll find my top 5 tips for reintegrating to Sweden, or as I lovingly call it: “do it like a Swede”. Cause even though I was born in this country, it won’t be a walk in the park.. 1) Don’t ever let the weather fool you. Like in […]
And then it hits you like a slap in the face. I’ve truly moved home. Cause when you get yourself an old-school library card (mostly for the smell and sound of books – yes, listen to the flip of the pages..) it has to be the ultimate sign that you’ve settled. And what a library […]
You know one of those people who watch a mushy movie or series on TV and sit and cries in the sofa. And I’m not talking about small, hard to see, tears rolling slowly down my cheeks – heck no, I’m talking crocodile style massive ones who could replenish the ocean. That’s me. All emotions […]
The one thing that I and Freddie Mercury have in common. We’re simply musical prostitutes. For him it was singing and performing on stage, for me it’s pumping up the volume on my speakers or my headphones 🎧 and sing as loud as I can. My head is full of music lyrics and all it […]
Cause if there was one thing that my road trip in the Scottish Highlands made me perfectly clear on – I’m in love. I’m in love with the sun reflecting on the Highland mountains, of the cherry blossom trees lining the villages I passed, of the plentiful lochs and glens you pass everywhere, the windswept […]
If I said that life’s a journey you’d probably say what a cliché, right? But it is. What I’ve realised more and more though is that there is one important thing you can’t forget – to enjoy it. And perhaps most of all, to cherish the main traveller on that journey. You. Not you as […]
The Chinese New Year’s is coming and I vividly remember seeing this documentary a couple of years ago of the queues outside the train station in Beijing. Mayhem. Then I remember seeing National Geographics “Great Migrations” and all of a sudden I visualise hoards of people in slow motion, moving to dramatic music to the […]
Believe me when I say that I have days where I long for home, for a slice of sanity in the middle of it all. Not that my life is any more stressed out or unusual than others. It’s just that this year marks 13 years since I packed my bags and left and I’m kind of […]
I’ve learned a couple of things during what I now so lovingly call “Smog Week”. 1) First of all it’s nothing like Spring Break at Uni although it does come with the same kind of headache. 2) You can live with your air purifiers on full blast and keep your sanity after all. No I […]
