March days

...it is meteorological sping in sweden...
...and 18 degrees in the sun...
...I celebrated by going to Bögens korvkiosk...
...it is a famous place in alingsås...
...i looked for traditional food...
...except for tunnbrödsrulle and hamburger with some persian mashed potato...some meatwalls was ordered as take-away...
...later on I made some falafel...
...they turned out ok...

LDS visit at Burgården

I saw some cool ginger bread creation recently...
...it was interesting...
...I also went to some LDS event at burgården...
...and went for a coffee later on with AF n JS...
...I got treated some coffee with caramel sauce...
...and some bagel...

Leap day 2024

February 29th..my favorite day of the year...
...unique...
...I did a visit to a geocaching event...since geocachers goes bananas on this day...
...I also went to a local hash run...
...at the city of gothenburg...
...they ran out of fish n chips at kingshead...so I had some falafel...
...I also went to an indian store...where I found the same pistage dessert that I dumsptered some weeks ago...
...they also had this indian "color me rad" powder...
...later on I went for a taco buffet at kingshead...
...I had a lot of food...it was cheap...included if I had a beer for 79 sek...
...I also inspected the price of cashew...55sek...psycho said it was 65sek last year...when I dumpstered some of them...many people like them...

Spring signs and food

I planted plenty of flowers in the garden last year...
...and some keeps poping up now...
...I also did a late night max visit...
...and passed by a local swiming pool...
...might take some medals later on...
..possible to order online i guess...
...I also made some french fries with cheese...
...too bad lidl in alingsås has a locker on their container now...not good for the environment...more food waste in society...

Spring arrives

...plenty of flowers are shoing up in the grass nowadays...
...some wild ones...and some that I planted last year...
...I also spotted a painting that is similar to the one I gave to MR D last week...from japan...
...I saw this at my uncles place...he had a birthday...
...having crayfish from a lake outside växjö...
...and some salmon and potato gratain...
...it was good...it included a salad with strawberries...
...and also a strawberry dessert...
...later on I went to McDonalds with MR CS...he manually added ketchup to his tripple cheese burger...
2024 continues...

A visit to Lounges

I went to lounges recently...
...my cousin booked a floor...hoever, the staff was tricky enough to try to charge me money even if I was on the list...I had refuse paying, and talk to some guards to ensure that the staff acted correctly...
...it was another guard at the top floor...they seem to have a default set of being suspicious...
...some random guy acted as if he worked there...inviting people to an empty dancefloor...making the bartender to go bananas...
...at the top floor all drinks had lemon flavour...
...I had a low alcoholc drink...
...I also mingled with my cousin...he is funny...
...many of his friends were there too...
...later on a visit to  P.K was paid...they nowadays have guards; since its a different society since 2015...more unsafe and violent some say...new times require different measures...
...I had a meal for free...a friend treated...

A visit to Växjö

I paid a visit to Växjö recently...
...buying some smålandskringla...
...they had a spiderman cake...
...ended up with a kringla...a semla and a minor princesscake (with raspberry filling)...
...I also passeb by this place for some reason...
...and had a napoleonbakelse and a semla here...
...a visit to an indian restaurant was later on paid...
...it was ok...i have been here before...but then it was at another location...
...i like the different sauces...and pastes...
...later on I arrived to the west coast...where I made some tiramisu...
...and later on had a coffe...
...the tiramisu was ok...

Geocaching and random store visit

I went geocaching in kalmar recently...but before that I went for some breakfast...
...the breakfast was said to be done at a hotel...
...cheese and fish...
...and some coffee, cereals etc...
...easy find the nearby geocashing in the day...
...after some more geocaching north of the ölands bridge...a visit to Alvaret was made...
...a lot of grass...
...it was rather cold...
...some stone windmill...
...I made a similar construction as a kid...
...I also passed by some plant store looking for hops...(preferably local ones)...
...they had plenty of plants...
...some wind made some mess...
...but they also had some green house...
...some quote...
...another quote...
..no staffed store...
...and some funny looking plant...
...the price here were cheaper than in alingsås...
...I called the staff...looking for hops...
...no hops found...
...later on some other glass factory was visited...
...well some were closed...
...like these were closed...
...this one was open....called Boda...but was easily confused with "kosta boda"...which is famous...
...glass decoration...
...some homeless man museum...old swedish culture...about men strolling around...
..this Boda glass factory had many artists from all over the world...making glass art...
...some expensive art...
...some blue glass that changed colour depending on light...
...more glass art...
...another famous glass...
...some famous artist...
...another famous artist...
...australian girl making this volcano...
...famous on internet...
...some guided art tour...it was expensive...just to enter the factory reuired a ticket...
...later on a kebabg place was visited...
...pizzeria viking...
...lunch offering..
...but it was evening now...so it was normal prices...
...free refill of salad...
...the pizza was ok...
...so was the kebab...
...I also found some stores in the country side with no staff...based on pure trust...

A trip east

...my first tiramisu was rather ok...
...added some chocolate on top...
the glass area was later on visited...and a factory called Skruf...
...they had a shop...
...with plenty of glass things...
...like ths equipment i make wine with...
...the staff also mentioned the glass factory where the glass where made...
...even more glass...
...and drying...
...the hot oven...
...the staff where on a break...
...I wonder...if i throw in my old broken glasses...if I could redo a new glass...
...some equipment to shape...
...some other vase...
...and teamwork among the staff...
...and some other glasses...not sure if these will be thrown away...(they might hve a dumpster container)...
...omg...some royal glasses in the shop...
...and some marketing...
...later on...arrival to the east coast was done...
...they had some small art inside...
...for some nautical training...
...it was fun...
...amf4 in the virtual machine...
...I stayed at some freemanson hotel...but it seems cheaper to book via booking.com....unfortnetelly they had some IT-issues...so I couldnt book the room until 20...and then the booking.com sold out the room...but it seems nevertheless as booking.com is the cheapest option...
...this is their freewifi if you happen to pass by...
the top floors windows seemes pretty dark...
...later on I went to a buffet...
...they had free refill of a very nice beer..
...first round...
...second round...
...okenty of dessert...
...and some cakes...
...including fresh strawberries...
...6th round...
...7th...
...this was the place...
...the hotel had bones as candle holders...
...and was also hosting rotary...(but the odd fellow house was a different hosue...build 50 years later than this place)...
...interseting house...
...many names...
...I had a beer from öland the second largest island in sweden...
...it passed expiration date...
...at the first floor...they had a mysterious door...where men in suit left once in a while...
...maybe I will enter here some day...
...feedback on google of this hotel was that one easily could hear the neoughbour dorrs (they only had 1 floor with some 30 rooms)...so earplugs were included...
2024 continues...

B-Bash and tiramisu

...Mr KE had some B-Bash recently...
...he had sparkling wine as usual...
...and some pink princess cake...
...the weight was on the floor...
...later on...before the last snow was melting; I made some face out of some ball of snow...
...still ice on the lake...
...I also made some tiramisu...
...it is rather easy...
...egg...mascarpone...etc...
...and sponge cake instead of biscuits...
...and 5 hours in fridge...
...I also got some cakes from a neightbour...

A visit to Bee bar and bike kitchen

I recenltly assisted in getting a e-SIM card for a cellphone...
...and ended up having a lunch at the Bee bar...
...schnitzel and fish...
...passing some asian store...found some taiwan product...
...and ended by passing by the bike kitchen...fixing my cruiser...

Trying american cereals

I love cereals...when I was young I often wished for cereals in birthday gift...
...these had berry flavour...next time i might try the chocolate flavour...
...the store didnt have apple jacks....I will try to get them next time too...
2024 continues...

Lunar new year 2024

It is lunar new year...(not allowed to say chinese new year....not sure why; cus in mandarin; the characters for Chinese (The people); the language, the cultuer etc are different...but still Singapore, malay, Taiwan, korean, japanese people might get offended...
Some stockholm Taiwanese had an anual event...with "cash only" payment...so funny...but thats how they roll here...
...also some lottery...
...and 10sek buns...
...many people dressed in red...
...some famous guy speaking (like the ambassador)...
...we had the buffet that was shared at the Pong restaurant...at kungsholmen, not far from where I use to live...but I never been here before...
...they also had dumplings...
...Mr Chu liked the dimsum...
...some lottery event...the winners were announed...
...each new winner did the new draw...
...L-bow in action...
...Mr Tob also won...
...some olive oil...
...L-bow won biscuits...
...it was an intense east coast visit...returning to the west coast some hours after the lunar year dinner...entering the year of the dragon...it is said to be powerful...

A visit to the east coast

I went to Stockholm recently...
...ate some hotpot at happy lamb...
...asian flavours...
...it was ok..but they charge extra for softdrinks...(more chinese than taiwan style)...
...lucklily the icecream was included in the buffet...
...I also went to the american store to look for apple jacks...but they didnt have it this time...but I found vegemite...
...later I met up with Mr JB...
...we went to some restaurant...
...they saved his old wine bottle for him...
...I had some thai beer...
...JB had his wine...
...we had plenty of thai food...
...I also reinstalled the "beer with me" app...
...Mr Ragnartz showed up as well...he is funny...
...L-bow was dancing eventually at the late night of this friday...
...later on we went to some thai place...
...had some beers...
...and some dancing...it was a fun night...

Food and beer

I went to help some people recently...
...they had a beer for me...(non alcoholic)...and some other bottles...
...making some asian food...
...made of swedish dishes...
...I also passed by the supermarket...where they had some carolina reaper....super spicy...

Random february events at the west coast

It is some ice on the lake...
...some skaters passing by...
...I also went to systembolaget, cus I bought a beer online...
...I got a dumpster diving IPA...made by old bread...similar to the beer i will make in the future...
...I also saw a bird house...
...which I put on the south side of a tree...
...later on it started to snow...
...it is february...

Coldest month of the year

February is the coldest month of the year. December is the darkest. Now we are heading to ligher and warmer times... Looking forward put the plants/flowers out in the garden...

Some snowy days in january

...it has been a cold winter some say...
...some people kite surfing on the ice...
...i made some snow dog...maybe a odie look a like (character from the cartoon Garfield)...
...I later on had some indian food...
...and after that had some jordanian food...
...at a nearby student resturant....(rotary)...they also had a petition to open a "taco tuesday" event...
...I was also receommended to se some sami movie...
2024 continues...

A night out with some people

Gothenburg film festival is taking place right now...
...they have some local beer to promote this at some local supermarkets...
...later on i got the question to go to the local student pub called rotary...but they required student ID at chalmers universtity...so we ended up at a nearby pizzeria...
...it was ok...i usually get a pizza with sallad on...
...D was there...showing how his brother is walking...
...it was a good imitation...
...we later went to some cuban place...
...i had a non alcoholic mojito...
...they had their drinks written on the black board...
...it was interesting...

Ice on a lake

...after some cold time...
...it was ice on the lake...
...some skaters passing by...
...but soon it will snow...and later melt away...
2024 continues...

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