Belgium days passing by
...I often love hotel breakfasts...
...this hotel was ok...but not super huge...
...I also passed by some fries place...
...with spicy sauce...
...some peeing girl statue...
...it was also a geocache...
...I also had some flandern meat dish...
...and clams...
...and inspected some more art (Statues)...
...and some brewery...(or atleast a beer place)...
...and passed by some touristic places...
...2024 continues...
Some EU parlament event
I was at the EU parliament recently...
..but before that I had hotel breakfast...
...they had sausage in the mushroom bowl...
...some old house...
...cherry blossom...
...and other spring flowers...
...I got use of my white tape; after some artist people needed help with some art...
...I also got some sparkling wine...
...and passed by some EU parliamental speech...
...and some country club near the american embassy (De Warande)...
A trip to Belgium
...I mde a trip to belgium recently...
...I also brought some vacum cleaner bastery on the flight...
...the lugggage was below the limit...
...the airport ahd many small bottles of spirits...
...some NATO advertisement without the swedish flag...
...many muslims in the area...making the evenings crowded in this ramadan times...
...I had some moroccan food...
...and some fries...
...it was ok...
A quick visit to Stockholm
I paid a quick visit to Stockholm recently...
...passed by an american store...
...tried some easter chocolate egg...
...meeting up JB...
...we endede up at this place...near him...
...had some burger..
...and fish n chips...
...and some beers...
...JB also had some taiwanese spirit at home...
...and made some special cheese noodle dish...
...and added spicies...
...he is a funny guy...
...keep stiring...
...and also sipped some Jägermeister similar liquor...
...using the yolk from an egg to get some extra special flavour...
..."soon it will be done"...
...after a while the dish was served...
...it was pretty good...
...I also finally got to open some beer that I bought ni demnark som years ago...
...I also inspected some local maps...
...later on I paid a visit to TPE mission...
...and had some wine at JBs...
...and visited some hotpot...
...it is a pretty good hotpot...
...many fresh dishes...
...I went all in on shrimps...
...and some icecream..
...icecream with different other desserts...
...and more food...
...of different kind...
...and some fresh fruit...
...but it sux that the soft drink costs extra...
...not sure why the replace the work "bike" with an image of a bike...
...Mr JB was buyin some stuff at a 7-11...(or pressbyrå)...
...and other word to image replacement...
...after some movie night...it was lunch...
...pretty good food...
...using chopsticks...or normal knife, spoon and fork?...
...or...I ended up using a fork...
...some people were also demonstrating about the war in Gaza...in central stockholm...
...once back at the West coast...I tried some american cereals...they were ok...
...I also prepared some roses...hopefully they will become bushes in the future...sugar and potato as root boosters...
An information session about Kebnekaise (swedens tallest mountain)
I went to an information session recently about Kebnekaise...
...some company that wanted to sell some trips (all inclusive)...
...there are 2 routes up to the peak...
...seems like some 19+10 km up...should e possible in 1 day back nad forth (just avoid the nay sayers)...
...it is also possible to bring tent...and buy stuff on the route...
...it seems like the best season is june to september......another thing on my bucket list (also maybe all mountains above 2000meters in sweden...should be less than 20 mount
Some ice cream, food and dumpster session
I went to Triumf glass (locel ice cream store) recently...
...it was in sävedalen...
...they didnt have the beer icecream any longer...
...but they had a churros ice cream which was interesting...
...later on I made some beef steak...trying to boil it before fryting, to capture the juice inside...
...and using a lot of butter...
...and råraka...a swedish speciality...
...I also found some container at my dumpster route being locked...that sux...not good for the environment...
2024 continues...
Some bubble tea in Gothenburg
I had some peanutbutter recently...
...bought at an indian store...(without sugar)...
...I also had some local ice cream...
...and found a bubble tea place at Danska vägen...
...they were out of thai tea flavour...but made some burned sugar thing instead...
...it was ok...
...later ok I tried some hamburger...
...meeting Mr Wi...and was wearing one of the shirts we have in common...
...I also tried some non alcoholic drink...it was ok...
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...
...I also passed by some restaurant...
...and some kebab place where the rice was said to be good...
...spicy kebab with rice...
...I ended with a milk shake...I found it to be barely half filled...booo...
...a quick visit was also paid at mister york in Alingsås...
...the place is at an industrial area...
...they had some award...
...no serving inside...and in march it was around 0 degrees...so it was suitable to wait in the car for the queue device to beep...
...the burger was ok...
...later on I passed by a nearby Ica Maxi...and found some flowers...
...trying to learn the many names of the flowers I find...especially when I dumpster...
2024 continues...
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...
...we met at train station park...
...many geocachers here...
...the host hed some speech...
...they also checked alingsås hardest cache...a 5/5...
...I also picked some trash...
...deed of the 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...
