And we’re back in Belgium after 10 hours of traveling including four trains and one flight. At least I had two whole seats to myself. Glorious.

Also pretty glorious were the clouds today.

I spent my last full day here in Stockholm. First I accompanied Kristina to the Indian Consulate to apply for her visa and then we had some fika at Vete-Katten.

It was so hard to choose something but in the end I settled on the Twiggy: passionfruit and raspberry panna cotta on a hazelnut meringue base. It also helps that it has the name of a style icon…

Something sweet with raspberries that's called Twiggy? Yes please!

We sat outside, had some tea with our cake/sweets/fika and had a nice chat. Lovely day.

I’m just a tad homesick. The strange thing however is that at the same time I don’t want to leave Sweden to go home. Doesn’t really make sense, does it?

It’ll be great to be back home and go to the beach among the copious amounts of obnoxious tourists and then see them leave in the evening and walk through the shore with just about no-one in view.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

In the rose garden at Wij Trädgårdar

Yesterday Kristina took me to Ockelbo to visit Wij Trädgårdar (Wij Gardens). It was absolutely beautiful and we had a great time looking around, enjoying the sun and the lovely buffet with local produce for lunch.

While we ate it suddenly dawned on me that I felt perfectly happy. There was nothing nagging in the back of my brain, telling me to do this or that. I just WAS.

Talk about an epiphany.

I woke up today to a blue sky dotted with sheep clouds. Add to that a sunny porch, sandwich with Västerbotten cheese and a gorgeous view of the river and I’ll happily sit like that for hours.

I met up with Emelie for lunch in Gävle today. No red rose though as I couldn’t find any.

I hadn’t seen her for a year and a half and it was so great/awesome/insert-loving-adjective-here to see her again. During lunch we talked about anything and everything and then we went shopping.

Our smoulder is pretty impressive. Thanks to lovely Caroline for the pictures.

I brought her my favourite Belgian chocolate and then after shopping we had tea and blueberry-vanilla cheesecake.

The perfect afternoon if I say so myself.

It is so lovely to be in Skutskär again. I woke up this morning to a blue sky and lovely sunlight on the river Dalälven. Of course by the time I got back from the city the weather had changed and it was nowhere near as pretty to take pictures. A next time.

Now is the time to post a little to do-list for me. Sometimes all you need in life is a little reminder.

I’m taking the train to Brussels Airport in about five hours. I still need to finish packing, buy new shampoo (because apparently I think they don’t have shampoo in Sweden) & have lunch with mum.

From my trip to Sweden in April 2010.

Then again if you look at how gorgeous the place I’ll be traveling to is, I can hardly wait those five hours. I won’t be staying in one of the houses on the picture but this gorgeous view is about 10-15 mins away by bike if I remember correctly.

See you all when I’m there!