Last Day in Scandinavia!

Dining and shopping with Michelle on the other side (Elsinore) in Denmark!
Early flight to catch! Big night tomorrow back in Dundee!
Night Night
Photographical evidence for those of you who can tell the difference in Scandinavian backdrop:

Mom's Open Bar and the Nineteen-Year-Old

Yesterday I had Regina over for drinks in the backyard,
took advantage of Mom's "open bar" mixing to wondrous ratios!

Drink no 1, rum and frozen berries
Drink no. 2 was a nightmare. (Tequila, Kahlùa and Rum with fruit syrups)
Employ me as your bartender if you want to lose your head after 2 drinks.
Tried to make it bareable with ice cream...

After adding various juices, we realised that water did the trick...

Dazed and hazed, switching off screens/ fighting moths

Gulping the last before watching the most tedious "sensual" movie ever - Lady Chatterley.
Only our drunken commentary and intermittent napping made it worthy!

Today we woke up, got ready, shotted espresso and ran into town.
Bro's Birthday lunch at dad's

healthyy
Evening celebration, penguin greeting from Mom...

Dinner on the beach at Barfota ("Barefoot")

The best choice:

Still alive, despite the heavy humid heat
Post-dinner dip in the sea Back at the house for pre-party cake Oskar and Dennis getting ready to go out to a free club where they only drink water (stingy clique)
Hopefully he'll get birthday drinks so he won't look like such a douche!

Island Time in the Swedish Summer

My camera has been dead for a while and so have I, but here are some pretty (unfortunately unedited) photos from my time at our summerhouse outside Gothenburg, been there a week after I flew in from Barcelona (Primavera Sound Festival) on Monday.

There will be more photos up from parties prior to my two and half week vacation shortly, when I hit my laptop back in Dundee this Friday. My London-based high school friends Nina and Karma are visiting for the weekend and I get to see lots of other lovely people again!

Hamburgö:
Taking a coffeebreak (one of many) with stepmom's mom and dad,
my stepgran always makes lots of cakes, she's the best!
Matilda's T reads "Less Water, More Bubbles!"
The top terrace view and the house
Pale and proud until I burn and cry.
The first swim of the year without a wetsuit

Some thought me creepy and crazy

But the next day we're all diving in
Stepsis Matilda and I ("reading")
Island style

The Swedish diet
When you're old you apparantly don't celebrate your birthday but a cake was still made The heat increases day by day...
A ferry ride for home made ice cream on the other side.

Heya! Back on the island
Swimming away, loosing the sweat The last supper - taking the ferry from the island to the mainland (5 mins) Hjalmar's, a popular restaurant/ bar for young hot Norweigans

Everything's in bloom, it's so hot and sunny

Staying skinny at Hjalmar's
Epic sky at 11pm

Brother and I
ProCivitas kids

The rib-stole for every season.
Shortly after the walk home I finally skyped to Kirsty (in the garden for the whole island to hear) as the mosquitoes feasted upon my legs. It was the last night, I had sweet dreams

My brother manning up back in Helsingborg at Mom's house
Mom is still a schoolgirl

Summer feeling! Let's keep it up!

Weekend of Dreams

I am not complaining!

On Friday Kirsty and I continued to celebrate that two of our exams had been completed, and that we only had one more to go! Suppress life with fun if you don't want to look forward to the near future!

Annuka joined us to go to the fun fair, second day in a row:

Set up by the Tay for healthy wuthering winds slapping your face

"Miami" was our favourite ride

Or possibly "Rockstar", made you feel like one, on a plateau, nauseating and everything

The Jiminy Cricket-ride was disappointing...

Thumbs down!

Neon versus grass-green

Goodbye Dan and Paul (who don't do fun fairs)!

Happy colourful gnome in the grey!

Kirsty and the ginger cat

Shadows of wine that hopefully won't linger in the morning

Saturday's picnic in Baxter Park

Look at this place!

The vast, peaceful evening.

Sunday's May Day celebration in Magdalen Green (big thing in Scandinavia)

Iain, Matt and Douglas decided to read their bad poetry aloud to random crowds on the green whilst Dan accompanied them on guitar....

Mandi and Ed exhibit their dirty potato hobbit feet

Of course there was music!! Ken spreading immediate joy to Paul

Mandi doing her toast thanking everyone for coming, oh the applause (for her being able to stand up)!

It got colder, so we thought of heading to Dexter's open mic

Hugs and Strongbow

Adult drinking triggering childlike expressions

On our way into town we saw beautiful things:

The most adorable dog! Dan's fatherly instinct eminent

We ended up somewhere else, we didn't quite make it to Dexter's..