I love Parmigiano Reggiano Corridor!

Everybody is going back home for Xmas... for some it's also the end of their exchange here: David, Pascal, Fabi, Mike,... It's been a wonderful semester I must say, thanx ORI for the mistake during the asigning procedure :P For my closest friends, most of us will be coming back after Xmas so tragedy is still to come... although Ali has been deeply missed ever since she left early December :( Anyway... our Parmigiano Reggiano Corridor (wonderful lasagne, amazing arrosto, delicious risotto and those "Family" Sunday lunches) would have never had existed if it wasn't for you....

Now we know where bullshit city lies on the Worldwide map,

now we now who Kings of Party (should I say farting??) are,

now we understand most of the things we had never understood (before we had listened to ur coherent explanations...),

now we know the meaning of "eres más puta que las gallinas [thx Alex!] (porque aprendieron a nadar para fol..... a los patos...)",

now we know that our Erasmus without u would had NEVER been the same ;)

GRACIAS POR TODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GIULIOOOOOOOOOO!!

p.s.- ((((pero qué feo que eres!!!! """noooooooo, soy muy bonitooooooooooooo!!!"""))))

this is coming to an end---- THX TO ALL!!

it's all about bullars...

Kötbullar, kanelbullar, luciabullar,... here in Sweden it seems as if everything has to do with "buns, cakes, rolls" or at least that's how the Svenska-Engelska online dictionary translates it...
I remember my first supermarket experience back in August- kötbullar all over the place! I already knew from our GREAT IW's about this meatball-smashed potatoes-"marmalade" dish but I just couldn't imagine it was really that popular. Really shocking... This is the pic I took with my cellphone on that day, I had to! :P


Then came kanelbullars... look tasty, smell nice though in my opinion they turn out to be not that nice- the texture of the pastry, the amount of cinnamon... certainly not for me! for those who'd like to try, here u r: the original Swedish recipe in Swedish...


And now luciabullars... haven't tasted them yet and I don't think I will have the opportunity as traditions here in Sweden are strictly respected and Santa Lucia is over :( They look like "little tits" (they really do!) and surprisingly! they aren't made with cinnamon! hehe This is how they look like...
In Sweden, Santa Lucia is one of the big events: according to what I have read, Santa Lucia was said to be the first wife of Adan but she had some kind of special thing going on with the devil... Anyway, in the old calendar, Santa Lucia's day the 13th of December was the one with the longest night of the year. The tradition also says that day u have to take a plentiful breakfast :)
More about the Santa Lucia Festen: girls dress up in a white dress, boys as stars and everybody sings songs dedicated to this special event and, of course, get drunk! otherwise it wouldn't be Sweden :P
Lovely Sweden, cute tradition,... I didn't miss the stupid karaballen ( I never wan to go to one of those ever again) but I did miss this... s***!!

Laurita and the MiniMeal...

Today I had my first almost "cocido" soup ;) Spanish will probably agree that whenever it's cold outside, there's nothing better than having a warm home made cocido! To prepare a proper cocido takes way more time than I did but at least I had something which resembled to what my father usually cooks back home... Anyway, I had invited Laura to enjoy lunch with me but she finally couldn't come cause she's too into her studies :P but I will forgive her... This post is dedicated to her, for the lovely time we spent together during our trip last week and because of being a true friend ;) but when speaking about laura u just CAN'T miss talking about her passion! MINIMEAL! This yoghurt+cereal thing drives Laura crazy, I think it can only be found in Sweden and Finland so Laura will be taking a truck full of minimeals to Germany for Xmas!! :P










But the thing is that she probably said no to my cocido soup and had a minimeallllllllllllllllllll
Te quiero mucho Laurita ;)

Se acerca la Navidad!

I know... my frequency of updates is soooooooo terrible!!!! In my defense I can just say I've had a lot to do in the last month and PLUS! I haven't been in Linköping that much! Making a brief review this is how my last month went along...
from the 1st-6th November my parents visited me :) 4 days here in Linköping and then the MUST in Sweden: visiting beautiful Stockholm (my third time there btw...)
On the 9th we had the first big snow, so exciting!


Laura turned 21 on the next day... we had a wonderful party with special guests: her mother and her sister. A couple of Spanish omelettes and two delicious quiches as starters and then...
risotto!!! yummmmmmmmmyyyyyy!!! :D



Just 2days after, that's on the 9th, we departured to... Russiaaaaaaaaa!! a 9-day- road trip which lead us to Moscow droping by in Helsinki and St. Petesburg, amazing!

Without even time to go back to lessons, Tyler came over for a long w/e ;) by chance it was the same w/e as Kings of Party (Italy). We spent altoghether a couple of days here- incredible dinner at Stefano's!- and then to Stockholm once again ;)

On the 27th I had the exam of my last full-time course (Entrepreneurship and new Business development) but without any hope to pass it of course... but miracles sometimes exist and I did pass it! :) (just got to know 2days ago)...


Time goes by very quickly and farewells already started... the first to leave were Alice and Paolo. As we were going to Bratislava-Prague and Vienna for a 6-day-trip we decided to make the big party on the 28th... Strange feelings that night I must say...
(Stephanie Good also left pretty early, only two days ago- back in the US!)

So now... coming closer to today... our trip to Eastern Europe! Erasmus religion ihas very much to do with travelling around all of the countries that are close your host country but with Ryanair everything seems to be so close! & so cheap! :D Nobody said a trip with 9 ppl would be easy but it was nice to travel around (specially b/c of u Lauri) and discover new cities! The experience of taking a night train of 5h30 between Bratislava and Prague: highly advisable specially if ur suitcase is full of still not dryed clothes from last nights laundry! :P





Prague: amazingly beautiful- we had a wonderful bright sun the two days we spent there so we were able to enjoy all of the beauty of the city (and it's beer!). Don't miss the restaurant-pub "Il Provaznice" if u ever go...
Vienna: full of Xmas markets, we only missed the snow. I've never had so much warm wine in my life (Punsch!)
Bratislava: Small but nevertheless charming- mandatory visit to the Slovak pub! delicious pirogis!

Now back home... all the snow melt away... soon ppl who will not be here on the 2nd semester will have their farewell parties... can't imagine how this will be like without some of them in January... :S

TONIGHT! LUCIAKRABALLEN! said to be the best one though I've never been a great fan of them... looking foward to a good party!