Monthly Archives: July 2007

Mountain Experiences in Örnsköldsvik

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It has been becoming increasingly longer in between updates, but that is because I have been on vacation for the last 4 weeks and updating LJ hasn’t been the highest priority as of late.  But soon vacation is over and the updating and the fun starts again.

So I am guessing that now is as good as time as any for a general update.

As most of you know, I went to Palma de Mallorca with Alex and that was a lot of fun.  And then Alex took me to Örnsköldsvik to see how life in the Northern part of Sweden is.  And I have to say that I liked it up there as a vacation point, even though I am not sure that I could live there.  It is not because anything is bad up there at all.  Rather, it has more to do with the fact that I am a city guy at heart and I don’t know that I would be able to make the transition so very easily.

While we were up there, we went hiking up a mountain.  On the way up we followed the trail up and that was really nice.  Picking and eating blueberries along the way.  It was really nice and relaxing up there.  Here are some photos…we are 270 meters (886 feet) above sea level. But first a really bad video of me going up the mountain…35 minutes in, badly prepared, and well…the video speaks for itself :-/

Mountain Top Pictures

Palma de Mallorca…now with some pictures…

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Palma de Mallorca Pictures:
http://public.fotki.com/RodneyCornelius/geographies-countries/europe/spain/palma-de-mallorca/

Here you can see pictures from the trip to Palma.  I’m the black guy 😉 … Alex is the other guy in some of the pics.

Sorry for not posting them all to LJ directly, but when I post to Fotki, it usually means that it’s a “long-term collection”

I have some pics from my phone that I will also add later….but here is a preview of the pics

Sampler

Palma de Mallorca

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Palma was a fantastic time!!!!

There was great opportunities to sun bathe and tan, the nightlife was fantastic, and the days were relaxing and peaceful. I can think of much worse ways to spend that money. The hotel was fantastic as well.

Now Alex and I are at the airport waiting to begin travel back to Sweden. We then spend some quiet days in Örnsjoldsvik and then to M&T’s summer house for a weekend.

Anyway, writing this without pictures doesn’t do the experience justice, so I promise to post pictures later. Ciao for now 🙂

The Day After Tomorrow…

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I’ll be on the beach and having fun in Mallorca.

Whee!

And now for a long update…or as long as I will be allowed before Alex and I go to the gym.

I know that it has been a very long time and I apologise for that. The last 6 weeks at work have been so stressed and crazy that at times I thought about giving it all up. But I managed through it and now today I begin my 4 weeks of vacation.

I will spend 5 days of it in Mallorca, and then another week of it at Alex’s place up north, and then we come back to Stockholm and I relax in the city doing a whole lot of nothing.

Looking forward to it actually.

I have told people at work that I really don’t expect to be called or contacted unless it is urgent. And I mean that. I can only think that I will not make the effort to run for the phone all of the time. For Palma, there will be no e-mail at all.

Also, Markus is now in Paris and I totally missed saying goodbye which I feel bad about. But hopefully if I get a trip to Paris we’ll meet again.

Anyway, you can eventually expect to see the pics from Mallorca as well as posts (I’ll have my Palm T3 so I will make updates on the handheld) to keep you all updated on the experience.

Until then, take care and lots of hugs!