Oh Yeah, I Went to Scotland

Hello,

This post should have been sooner, but it's not so late really.

This last easter I went to visit my friend Jonathan who lives and studies in Aberdeen, Scotland. We started the trip by him meeting me in Edinburgh, where my airport was. We stayed two nights there, at the Castle Rock Hostel (quite nice, actually). We walked around a lot, even out to his brother's house, but we didn't do any tourist-y things really. And I took almost no photos, so I haven't much to show you guys, but at least a few.

Our biggeast feat during our stay in Edinburgh was no doubt when we climbed / walked up Arthur's Seat, a hill next to the city. It was very windy, but still worth it. Nice views of the city.

Here's a couple of pics from the hill:

The picture above is of some monument that was at the very top of the hill. Very graffittied.

After Edinburgh we took the train to Aberdeen. We didn't do so much in Aberdeen really, just walked about town, shopped a bit, and he showed me his school. Then we pretty much watched a couple of movies and just hanged. It was really nice.
Even so, we did visit the beach, which was surprisingly nice and large. It was probably the biggest beach I've seen, since it stretches far up north and south, along the coast of Scotland. It was very nice, and so was Aberdeen (though I like Edinburgh more, it was awesome).

Here're some pics from the beach:

Well, now I don't have so much to say really. I greatly recommend visiting Scotland (even though this post doesn't shine such a great light on it), and especially Edinburgh. I had a great time at least.

Oh, if you want more pictures, I recommend you to check out my Flickr page (link to the left), I have a few more there.

Till next time.

Observation on Life

Hello,

The time right now is 02:32 at night, and I was just up on the roof of my building. I stood by the edge, looking out over the space between my house and the next one. The sky was clear and you could see the stars, and there was hardly any wind to speak of. The only sound was that of an odd car or two driving far away on the freeway.
As I stood there, a lone crow came gliding through the air below me, and landed on a tree not too far away. A short moment thereafter it let out a single calling, which was responded to shortly by another crow a further distant away.

When I saw this event of nature, I thought about another similar occurence; that of the single straggler making his way home late at night from the local pub, and upon entering his flat, calls out to his roommate 'goodnight'.

I wonder if that was what the crow said?

A Minuscule Update

Hello "everyone",

I know there are basically no people reading this blog, and I understand them. I seldom update, and it's not like the things I write about are very interesting if you're not a close friend of mine.

That's why I'll try to update more often, and about subjects that could be more interesting to a greater audience. Maybe movie and music recomendations etc.
Even so, the existance of this blog is mostly because I like to write in english, as I consider it good training (even though I get zero feedback, so I'm not sure when it's wrong). It's also quite nice just to write anything.

To sum up; I'll try to write more often, and about a wider variety of subjects. I hope you'll find it interesting (oh, and I'll always keep writing as though there's a bunch of people reading it).


And oh! Almost forgot; there's a small update to the blog. Now there's a map if you scroll down to the end of the blog, which is connected to my Loci Loci-account. With it, I can locate my and other people's cellphones (if they're swedish). I hope to convince people to create an account there, so there's someone else I can loate than myself. But that seems kind of stalker-y, and therefore I mainly have it as a precautionary solution if I misplace my cell. If it's lost, I simply log in to Loci Loci and check where it is. It's a paranoid person's dream (and nightmare, if you add the fact that people know where you are, but you can turn that off).

Well, that's it. Have a week.

Happy Bithday! (To me)

Hello,

Last thursday it was my 21th birthday, and I decided to go back to Åland and see my family, and also there was a big party with a bunch of people I know. Nice indeed. Except the hangover.

Well, anyhow, this post will be short, as I'm basically only posting a picture of one the gifts I received this weekend, which is too difficult to explain properly what is over phone / text message.

The gift is a huge wooden box from the Innis & Gunn brewery in Scotland (given to me by my parents), and it contains 4 rather rare kinds of beer, and also two nice glasses from the brewery. A very, very nice gift, I must say.

So, without further ado, here it is:

Quite spectacular, eh? I must conjure up a way to have more than one birthday a year somewhow..

That's all folks, and as the wise Kevin Smith says; have a week.