Helsingborg

After our week in Denmark with silver wedding, smal trips and meeting friends, it was finaly time for moving over to the other side of Öresund (the sound between Denmark and Sweden).

We had gotten our things from Barcelona and after collecting and filling the truck with as much things as possible from the Copenhagen apartment, we went with the ferry from Helsingør to Helsingborg.

Bye Bye Denmark (Kronborg castle in Helsingør)

Going with the ferry. Kasper's dad, Kasper and Charlie the dog

Hello Helsingborg!

For about 10 days we lived with no furniture, because they were still in the Copenhagen apartment. Well we had bought a new bed and we had our balcony table and chairs from Barcelona, so we managed ;) But then 10 days later we went back to Denmark to collect the last things and filled up an other truck with stuff. The following days we spent unpacking, going back and forth to IKEA and orginazing in the basement. Since we had had a leak in the basement in Copenhagen where a lot of things had been distroyed, we now have nothing on the floor! All my "old" books, that I had planned to sell from veterinary-school were distroyed.. Thousands of Dansih crowns just thrown away.. :(

In between everything, we have been exploring Helsingborg and doing walks with Charlie the dog. Helsingborg is one of Scandinavias oldest cities, dating back to the vikings (10th century).

The cityhall

Kärnan. What's left of an medievel castle

Looking over the city, with Denmark on the other side and the cityhall in front

Me and Charlie (yes, look for his head in the hole to the left) with Öresund in the background.

Kärnan seen from Stortorget.

Charlie enjoying the Swedish summer

Öresund with Denmark on the other side

I'm back!

And I have so many blogtopics and pictures to show you! But I think I will devide them into different posts, but first an update.

As you know, we have now moved to Sweden, to Helsingborg, because I'm going to study at the University of Lund this fall. We have during our time in Barcelona had our old apartment in Denmark rented out, so the first week in Sweden, we didn't have any furniture (they were in the old apartment). But last weekend the guy who had rented our apartment moved to an other place, so we could move the furniture to Sweden. So at least now, we got furniture but there are still some movingboxes and things that need to be done.

There are just so many things that has to get taken care of when you move and especially to a "new" country. These are just a few: Registration, insurences, registration of dog, getting Internet, getting mobile nr, choosing health clinic, change address, choosing electrical supplier, signing contracts.....

And of course you have to find "your" new supermarket, farmacy, postoffice, petstore, health clinic, vet.clinic, hairdresser, pizzeria ;) etcetc

Well enough about the wining, I love moving to a new place and city, and I'm looking forward to live here in Helsingborg! Already liking it!

Now to something else. Charlie the dog has been to the hospital. After we had been in Denmark, picking up the furniture, he had started to cough and making through-up-movements when eating. So we called the hospital on Thuesday and went there Wednesday morning. The lady I talked to thought that maybe it was the "kennelcough" which is highly infectious, so we had to wait outside the hospital. I thought he had something in his throat, and I was right. He had got a thread (probably from a sock) around his tongue and down his throat.

They took him in and we went home. Unfortunally they didn't have time to operate the same day, so he had to stay during the night. They put him in anasthesia and then went down the throat to look. If the thread went all the way to the intestines, they had to open him up.

But luckely, it ended in the bowl so they could just pull it up again.

Puh. Poor Charlie, poor wallet, poor my nerves. We got him home today and he is fine, just tired.

Good to be home and is pleased to be allowed to be in the bed

Hello University of Lund!

Just a quick post; I got enrolled to the Service Management - Retail programme! I'm starting after the summer at University of Lund, but in Campus Helsingborg, where we are going to live. Going to get access to the new apartment in Helsingborg on Thursday!

Whohoo :) I'll give you an more detailed update soon!

ByeBye Barcelona

And so came the last day for our year (or almost year) in Barcelona. I have actually been looking forward to this day. It feels like I have done everything I wanted here, and I am ready for a new chapter in life. But even though, it feels a bit sad leaving. Especially all "lasts". For example today was the last day I babysat Gabriel, last time I went by the metro, last time I looked over a sunny Barcelona from our balcony..

Of course there will be things I'm going to miss about Barcelona and Spain. One obvious thing is the sun and weather, moving up north again means colder climate and more rain. But to be honest, right now I'm looking forward to Scandinavian summer weather, in which you actually can do things and be outside without melting (but I bet in 3 weeks I will be whining and wanting to go back.. ;)) Here some things I will miss:

- Living 1min from the beach and everything that comes along with it (chiringuitos, bars, restaurants…)

- But at the same time living in a metropolitan city that really has everything; sports, culture, gastronomy, 1,5h to ski-resorts, nightlife, fashion and shopping..

On the other hand, there are things that I won't miss and that I'm looking forward to in Sweden:

- Swedish food!

- Elementary things not taking forever, like getting Internet installed (or canceled; I will tell you about it later), getting registrated in Spain etc.

- Not being seen as a tourist

- Commodities like having a dishwasher, living in a building with elevator ;)

But what I'm looking forward the most to start a new school, meet new people, living in Sweden and a new city. It will be exciting to see how I will cope with life in a "little" town now. I grew up in Stockholm, then lived in Copenhagen for 3 years (both around 2million inhabitants) and Barcelona (4million) for one year. Now I'm moving to Helsingborg in Sweden, a town on the west coast with about 130.000! But that will be an experience and I'll have Copenhagen 1 hour away in train.

The apartment got filled up with moving boxes

I must finish of by saying VIVA ESPAÑA, en domingo VAMOOOS! Our last night, we spent on a beach bar watching the semifinal of the World Cup between Germany and Spain (and for you who didn't see the match, Spain won and are now going to play the final on Sunday against Holland).

Last night in Barcelona, before the game

Spain is happy to be in the final

Well, good bye Barcelona, at least for this time. We will probably be back for a short visit in November when Kasper is graduating, but until then; take care and I will miss you!

An olive twig from Gabriel and his mom & dad, which means good luck and as a little reminder of Spain and Barcelona.

Visit from Estocolmo!

This week my three best friends from Stockholm came and visited me here in Barcelona. As I wrote before, they were all going to stay with us in our 40sq/m apartment, so my boyfriend had to live with four girls and a dog ;) But it went fine and we didn't spend too much time in the apartment anyway. We went beaching, shopping, saw SATC2, went clubbing, had cocktails, went to a theatre, made a hair-salong-visit, did the top turist attractions and off course had a lot of gossip and delicious dinners!

We went to our favourite places El Rovell for tapas, Recasens for delicacies, Rosa Negra for raspberry mojitos and Mexican food, and to the sushi buffet. We also squeezed in a visit to the bar with Barcelonas best burgers and some café-visits.

On our way to sushi buffet. The girls in front of La Sagrada Familia

On the beach on our way home from Opium. Drinks last night at Foc.

I had a great time and I miss you already girls! It's good that we'll meet again next week when we fly up to Sweden :) You can see more pictures from the week here.

About the apartment hunt, we have now found an apartment that we like and Kasper's dad has been to see it. It is completely renovated but the rent is quite high.. If we get it I will post pictures!

Hope everyone had as good a weekend as I had!

Life status report

As some of you know, our living here in Barcelona was just temporary. We moved to Spain last September because my boyfriend Kasper was going to take his master degree in marketing here and I was going to improve my Spanish and find out what I wanted to do next (this) year.

Well, Kasper is now writing his last pages on his master thesis and I am finished with my Spanish-studies. I have applyed for the Service Management-programme at the University of Lund, Campus Helsingborg in Sweden and Kasper has got a spot at Arla Foods' F15 Graduate Programme.

Since we are flying up to Stockholm (where I'm from) to visit my parents for Midsummer, going back down again after 10 days and then were suposed to fly up again but to Copenhagen some week later for Kasper's parents silver wedding, we decided that it was easiest just to stay in Scandinavia after the wedding. We also wanted to start looking for an apartment in Helsingborg quite early so we don't have to do it at the same time as everybody else is doing it.

So our things will get transported already on the 6th of July and we are flying up "for good" on the 8th. Suddenly it feels like we have no time left here in Barca..!

Since Kasper is going to rotate 3 times in his two years at Arla, we decided it was best if we got a place where I was going to study. At first we thought of buying an apartment because they are not that expencive and the monthly cost would be about the same as for renting. But we then heard that the market is going down in 2-3 years, and that would be about the same time that we are going to sell again. So we are now looking for rental apartments.

It's quite hard to look at apartments when you are 2000km away and most of the website don't even have pictures of the places.. So in that aspect, it is going to be great to come home early. But we are definetly going to miss living next to the sea, the sun and our friends down here!

This is not going to be my good-bye Barcelona post (yes I will have one) and I will keep blogging after moving, but just thought a status update would be nice for everyone :)

It's good to have the moving-part in place, now we "only" have these little problems and wonderings left:

- Will we get some money back from this apartment for moving early or do we have to pay dobble rent some months?

- Will our landlord buy our furniture or are we going to have to put everything on the Internet?

- Where will Kasper start working?

- Will I get enrolled?

- Will it be hard to find a place?

etc..

Well enough about the problems, now some fun stuff! Tomorrow 3 of my best friends are arriving from Stockholm :D Poor (or?) Kasper; 4 girls in an 40sq/m apartment.. You will get an update on how that goes!

And as an ending, I will give you my Monday Manicure ;)

First, this is how my last weeks nails ended up looking:

And this is what I made yesterday:

A nice French using Kiko nr 219 as a base, H&M white tip and pink base coat, and finishing with a pink flower using H&M "Check me out" and Konad plate m20.

Have a nice week!