A pimp/spam post about 50 Shades of Grey... Trigger warning for discussions and hints about abuse!
Figured it was time for another pimp-post or whatever you wanna call them. There's just to many fun stuff to look at online, and then I feel the urge to share it. Sure, I retweet or replurk as well, but to collect it in one big post just appeals to me. Bear with me
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And now you've stumped me. I'm not an outdoorsy person. X-D *lol* BUT! On the other hand, I had another online friend visit last year, from Great Britain, and she was so so fascinated how green it was here in this country, how much nature there was everywhere. It's in the cities to. I mean, if I've understood in New York, you got Central Park and... that's it for green nature in New York? Here you got little parks, trees and stuff everywhere. In most cities. Stockholm is known as the blue city, since it has SOOOO much water smack in the middle of the city. You can FISH in the middle of Stockholm if you'd like, which is the biggest city of Sweden. Granted, not much to a New Yorker, but still. :-) (And yes, the fish is eatable.) We have A LOT of history here in Sweden and we're proud of it to. So if you're into that, I'd recommend checking out the museums of Stockholm. The best museums are in that city, to be honest. (My favorite is the Museum of Medieval Stockholm, to be honest. I'm a medieval geek.) And then there's the The Royal Palace, of course. Where the Royal Family ACTUALLY live. :-) They have more than one palace, but the one in Stockholm is the main one. I like our Royal Family. They are very approachable for being royals. :-) And hey, Crown Princess Victoria married her personal trainer, who is now a royal prince, Prince Daniel. ;-) Fairy-tale material right there!
Feels like I'm just babbling. I actually took my British friend to visit my mother and, if she can make it she wants to visit this summer again and we'll visit my brother (who seriously lives smack in the middle of nowhere in the midst of nature). So there's that.
To travel to visit me in Borås, the easiest thing to do is go by train. Honestly. And you'll see more nature that way. I find traveling by train is very relaxing. It takes 4-5 hours at most to get here from Stockholm, I think. If you go by plane, I'd pick you up at Landvetter right outside of Gothenburg, which is the closest airport. Since that is the easiest. :-)
When it comes to Northern Lights, I have to disappoint you, I'm afraid. Sweden is a very elongated country. To see the northern lights you'd have to be way WAY north in Sweden, we're talking close to or on the other side of the polar circle. And in winter, not summer. Seeing Northern Lights is very very hard during summer. If you can see them at all. And hey, way north in the country if so. :-)
Parks like Yosemite we do have here and there, if smaller. It's a lot ancient forest here though, no open areas where you can see for miles. Most of Sweden is dense forest, expect the south parts where I live where there's mostly farm-country. :-) My uncle, who lives close to my brother, has a small farm. And my brother is working at a bigger one (and we're not talking US-big, fair warning. ;-) ). Just look at a map of only Sweden and you'll see that most cites are in the southern parts and then there's more and more forest and less and less cities the more north you get. :-) WAY north we have our own "natives" or "indians", the Sami people. But they're WAY north. :-)
I don't even know what else to write. X-D Best is to just throw questions at me, and I'll see what to answer. :-D
*HUGS*
peting73 wanted to add that nature? WAAAAY north. *lol* Sarek National Park is bigger than Yosemite, he thinks. Again, nature? WAAAAY north. *lol* But there you have the biggest park in Sweden. And yes, you can hike right through it if you like.
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ps- am i screwed as a vegetarian? you know all about how i suffered down south. i do not mind living off of coffee and pie and sweets for the whole time i'm down there but i'd like to be prepared this time! in modern times swedish people know/understand vegetarianism right? i will not be offending anyone?
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you know, it might also be creepy, since i know your family a lot better than they know me.... :\\\\
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I am still nervous as shit because what can little Sweden offer a New Yorker who has traveled the world? o.O Not very much, I'm afraid. I am tickled you wanna meet my family though. :-D I'm sure they'll want to as well! My brother speaks english very well, my mother not so much. She understands it well, but she has trouble talking it.
And no, you wouldn't be a creep. :-) I talk very openly about my habits online (yes, even the fact I read fanfic of the porny kind). So they know I have friends all over the world that I speak with frequently and are close to. :-)
I still can't believe you're actually coming here. o.O It'll take a few days for that to sink in, I think. :-D
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please don't worry about being nervous!! remember that one of my favorite places I've ever been was meiringen, that sleepy farming town in sweden where everything shut down at 630 pm!! your life sounds wonderful and awesome and i can't wait to be a small part of it! i'm going to try to learn basic swedish on the plane there although i can't promise i'll even be able to pronounce any words. since i'm on on surgery right now and i have the PE part of my boards in two weeks i feel torn in all directions. also, i would really love to visit a library or two that you work at and maybe watch you do a program if at all possible :)
right now the only thing we have done is booked into stockholm on april 30th (arriving may 1st). then we fly out of gothenburg on may 10th. we don't know what we're doing in the middle yet. i need a few hours where i just go to the bookstore and read about sweden. i heard about day trips from stockholm to malmo sweden, and i heard about hopping around the archipelago, and all sorts of cool stuff like that- i just need to sort out what we should do and what we'll have time to do. if there's a good time for us to come to boras, let us know!! we'll be there of course but we'd rather be there at a time that's especially convenient for you :)
will i be okay as a vegetarian?
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Also, that would be Switzerland, dear. Not Sweden. I knew a lot of US-people mixed our countries up, but... X-D *amused*
Good to hear you won't be bored! If you end up here in Borås on a weekend, I'll be off work and can hang out with you! :-D WHICH I WOULD LOVE TO DO, YOU KNOW!!!
I've been on sick-leave now for 3 months. I start to work in 2 weeks or so, and I am not sure in what library or with what yet. o.O I might be moved to another library actually. Which work-wise I don't mind. In fact, it could be very interesting. It's just a bit more of a commuting distance since it's not next doors like the one I used to work at. But I think it will work out. I might even get to use the car and peting73 might be going with his workmate instead, so hopefully that will work out as well. :-) Still, I wouldn't work weekends. ;-)
So you'll come here in May? That's AWESOME! Sweden is very pretty during spring and summer. :-D But beware. Sometimes spring gets a hiccup and we get RAAAAAAIIIINS! X-D So an umbrella would be good to pack, just in case. ;-) We have a very nice park in the middle of the city here, although it's NOTHING like Central Park, obviously. :-) It has some historic buildings though how people used to live here before it became a city. If you want I could find some links for you about things to do in Borås while you're here? :-)
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