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That is, Swedish fish. They taste exactly like Gott & Blandat. Delicious. But even more awesome is the box they come in. Is that cool or what?

In the guidebook, there was a short entry about Ballard, a quaint neighbourhood north of downtown Seattle, just by the ocean. It was described as the old Scandinavian fishing village, because that’s where most of the Scandinavian immigrants moved back in the day. They even have a Nordic heritage museum there. Well, as the historyContinue reading “Chapter 197: The Scandinavian fishing village”

1/6: After an entire day of walking, from Capitol Hill through Volunteer Park over the bridge to University of Washington and Fremont and then back again across the water to Queen Anne and Seattle Center, I was starving. My only intake of food had been an apple and the dried cranberries, raisins and walnuts thatContinue reading “Chapter 196: Sushi on the belt”

I could do a second blog entry about orchids dedicated to Richard, but I feel like that could be seen as slightly over the top. I don’t know him well enough, and most importantly, he doesn’t know me well enough to know that dedications and gifts and homemade pastries is just something that I doContinue reading “Chapter 195: Orchids of Volunteer Park Conservatory”

Seattle is full of small parks and squares, that give life and contrast to the heavy concrete and glass monsters of downtown, and places to breathe for the cute residential neighbourhoods. The first I came accross was Occidental Park down by Pioneer Square: A little bit further north, in the middle of the downtown chaos,Continue reading “Chapter 194: Parks of Seattle”

But it’s not only the libraries of Seattle that caught my attention. Seattle is full of interesting architecture that I just couldn’t keep my camera away from. It made my total of 4.5 GB of memory cards fill up in no time. Downtown: Pioneer Square, the oldest part of Seattle: In 1962, Seattle hosted theContinue reading “Chapter 193: Architecture of Seattle”

I really am a book worm. And my favourite building in most cities is the public library. I can’t help it, I judge a city by its libraries. Stockholm has a beautiful, amazing main city library, and a couple of really great public libraries both downtown and in the suburbs. The public library on Manhattan,Continue reading “Chapter 192: The city of libraries”

In Seattle I couchsurfed with Miles. He wrote on his profile that he liked languages and restoring old cameras – but what finally made me decide to send my Seattle couch request to him was what he wrote about his taste in music: “I like what Sweden is doing with pop music these days”. Well,Continue reading “Chapter 191: Living in Capitol Hill”

31/5-3/6: I arrived in Seattle on a gray and cloudy, but rainfree Thursday. Finding a place to store my green, monster backpack for the day turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would, and I ended up having to walk all through downtown for atleast three hours until I eventually foundContinue reading “Chapter 190: My four days in Seattle”

Mr. P in front of Bella Italia, where Bella and Edward supposedly had their first date. He was not impressed, not at all. I considered going in and ordering the mushroom ravioli dish that Bella had there while Edward watched her eat, but Mr. P wouldn’t have it. He had had enough of this sillyContinue reading “Chapter 189: Mr. P & the Twilight fever”