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LATEST ARTICLES ( 10 )

• It Was a Graveyard Smash

  

  Firstly, I apologize for how incredibly lax I've been on the updates lately. It is perhaps fortunate that since I last posted, those many moons ago (three weeks... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Candy Canes and Silver Lanes Aglow

  In a surprising turn of events, it has taken a visitor from home to make me homesick for the first time. As I type, Beth is snoring away on my sofa, having... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Jag Heter Elise Och Jag Tycker Om Göteborg

  I have big news today, BIG news: it is not raining. Yes, you heard right. After weeks and weeks of endless downpours and thunderstorms, the whole weekend and th... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Gothenburg, The City of Perpetual Precipitation and a Hundred Languages

  It is a dreary Wednesday afternoon in Gothenburg. As ever, it is raining. I honestly do not remember the last time that a day was completely free of rain. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Sticky Fingers and the Invisibility Cloak of Nightlife

  Considering that it is such a large city – the second biggest in Sweden, population of over half a million – Gothenburg’s nightlife scene can, at best, be summe... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• 'As Big As Your Head'

  On the whole, this week has mostly been characterised by how completely uncharacteristic of me it has been. For one, I have attended all of my classes at... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• Death By Technology

  

  It is barely lunchtime, but today so far I have been to see a lady about volunteering as a Language Assistant, which I begin tomorrow, and have received the... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• One Out Of Three Ain't Bad.

  To anybody I even vaguely know, it should come as no surprise if I tell you that right now, as we speak (/I type) I am procrastinating. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• An Evening With The Mayor

  

  It was Sunday afternoon, around 2pm, and after spending twenty minutes wrestling with four keys, three doors and a touch-sensor-key-pad-lock-thing (the technica... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL

• A Lack of Cold Feet (a.k.a Indifference)

  As I type, it is almost exactly twenty fourhours until I depart for Heathrow and begin my Swedish adventure. This evening, I have been for a farewell meal with... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2012 EXPAT, TRAVEL