Kanelbulle vs Scones

Without shortbread or scones but with cinnamon buns (=kanelbullar)

So, after one year abroad, I landed in Skavsta, Stockholm again. When coming out from the airplane I took a deep breath and thought that I actually could smell the cleanness in the air. The first meeting with dear old Sweden was a bit surrealistic, where was all the people gone? It did not help that T-centralen (Stockholms major train station) was less busy than Brightons. It was also strange to see the spacious streets, wow if the buss drivers in Brighton had all that space when driving their double-decker buses! There where lots of new big houses but so few shops (this is not necessarily bad though, I will be less tempted to buy things ;0). However the biggest surprise came the next day when I, without any suspicion, went to buy my breakfast at the supermarket (because in Uppsala there is not a café serving all day breakfast in every corner like in Brighton). It was then that I realised how expensive Sweden is! I just refuse to pay £3 for a small Nivea roll-on or £2.20 for a small cappuccino (that probably anyway isn’t as good as Pretts (in North street, Brighton) cappuccino for £1.50). However it doesn’t matter how expensive the cinnamon buns (kanelbullar) in Landings konditori (tea-shop in Uppsala) are, they are always worth their price.

It was quite fun to see all the amazed looks when walking through Uppsala city with my big, very colourful sun hat today. I also was a good girl and washed up several machines with laundry. The house has its own washing machines in the basement but although it is practical I don’t enjoy it as much as going to the launderette at Montpelier Street where I could watch and I talk to people while washing.

By the way, there is not any Marmite to get in Uppsala (I have tried, believe me) nor is there any Shortbreads :0( but I did come across one shop selling Flapjacks :0)

I’ll try to update my blog at least once a week and hope to get some pictures in from Sweden next weekend when Tobia is back from Warsaw with his camera phone.