25th April - Copenhagen

I'm leaving from Pontus hostel while he & Ellen are busy for Ellen stuff shifting to Pontus place

Good bye to the lovely river

The bridge link between Denmark and Sweden, many windmill built in the middle of the sea

Arrived around 3pm, still 1 hour ahead of the agreed time with my Denmark's host

I'm going to live with this family for 2 weeks in Denmark

A pool of the neighborhood

Look carefully they have some houses floating above the water

The houses for the wild ducks to rest and lay their eggs

Prepared by the society here

How lovely~

Finally I'm going to have a private room

Warm and cozy

Annalise even prepare me a basket of my bedding

I need to rest well tonight ^o^

23th - 25th April - Växjö

 


I'm somehow exhausted before I depart from Sniberup to Växjö

We have large housekeeping in the green house this morning to afternoon

 When I arrived Växjö, I'm definitely starved, I must eat something before Pontus meet me in the train station because I'm an hour early arrived to Växjö

15kr (about SGD2.9 / RM7.5) for a small size of fried potato like this, consider cheap food in Sweden

And I like the fork cum a small cutter on the edge, smart design

Before Pontus appear in the train station, there's a stranger approached and talk to me

Ask about my origin country and like me to search my national flag from his smart phone because he is fans of country flag, just like some people like to collect stamp~

He said he like Asian because we are short and he will feel more comfortable to talk to shorter people as he is consider short in his size...bla...bla...bla

I just wish Pontus can arrive early as I felt something wrong with the stranger...

The next day we have a walk from Pontus's hostel to the city

Along the path, the grass is turned green on this week

And the lake is frozen during winter but the ice is all melted now

Just in front of the lake, there's a lot resident houses face to the water

The person who live here will be the first person who sense the change of weather

The water and the open air here bring the news of the weather

Pontus is an old friend of mine when we were in New Zealand at year 2010

We worked for a same hotel restaurant before at the summer

And I just realized we don't have a photo before

I should have keep one last time as I don't know he will start save his beard after he return home from New Zealand ^O^

We went to a second hand shop in the city, as Pontus & Ellen (his gf) wanna buy something for their new hostel on May

The school have no problem for female & male living under the same room (not roof)

As you will gonna to pay for what you did, this should be known by every adult

Unlike our mother country, how if you forbid people to do this or that?

They will still do it with some other way beyond your control

An adult need to learn the consequence they will need to bear rather than learn how to obey the rules

Pontus introduce me a meal that his mother use to cook for the family

It's mashed potato carrot fried and some bacon

Well, I like it somehow, perhaps we can fired it with flour to avoid the loose of the mashed things?

Pontus is a shy and gentle guy to me

Last time when I knew him in NZ, he just 22 years old

People always make fun on his age as he is too young to them (he said most of the people there is Asian and they are average 25 and above)

I didn't know that, cause I never think what is so fun with being young and a backpacker?

I met a Germany backpacker only 14's

He is the youngest backpacker I ever know

Erik is a mixed blood of Egyptian & Swedish

When I 1st saw him in Pontus hostel, I think he have a face alike my brother (uncle's son)

Pontus invite me to a talk regarding religion at this evening, he say the talker are going to speck English

Maybe I can involve myself in the Q&A section if I like

After we arrive then we realized they all speck in Swedish >.<

I try my best to listen and figure out something when some word is English similar

Farewell Pontus & Ellen today

Nice to meet an old friend again during travel

21st April - Östraby

We are going to shift the plant from the small pot to a bigger pot today

Plants can't grow well in a crowd area with others plant

So as me

After works, about 1.30pm we are heading to Anne's house (Torböjn's old friend) for a lunch

What a typical cottage in Sweden

Anne is an Irish immigrant

She start living in Sweden since she was 20's old

is about 50 years ago now

This friendly old lady make us a lamb for lunch

I can see she almost spent the whole day in the kitchen alone

Messy everywhere in the kitchen but tidy can see from every corner of her cottage

Only me have lemon water on my glass >.<

A church in  Östraby

The old school just located in front of the church

Now the old school has been modified to a handcraft shop

The owner here use the loom to weave the cloth and some wool made stuff

There have a second hand shop as well 1 floor above the handmade cloths shop

I wish I could buy something from the second hand shop, it's really cheap and still in good condition, but I really restricted by my full house backpack with me T.T

During Easter, Swedish people decorate a deadwood with colorful feathers

It's a way they embrace the spring because colorful represent the new life in spring

We didn't celebrate Easter in Asia but is good to celebrate Easter with those who celebrate it

I believe it's an old water supply here

The countryside of South Sweden

Really impressed me with their well categorize rubbish recycle bin

Every houses will have 2 huge recycle bin, and each of that divided to four

Bin No.1 - Hard plastic, Combustible material, Clear glasses and wasted food

Bin No.2 - Soft paper, Magazine / colorful paper, Glasses and Metal

I wonder, where shall I put the soft plastic?

There's plenty of beautiful flowers in Kajsa's garden

 

This windmill belongs to Kajsa, but it's has been broke down few years ago and Kajsa found no use with it then she lost the only key to open the windmill door >.<

Kajsa's horse are happy to run in a bigger field we fixed it just now

Kajsa and me ^o^

We are farewell now as I'm going to leave Sweden soon on 25th April after I visit my old friend in Växjö on 23rd April