Monthly Archives: July 2009

Eh… Again

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Woke up 5:30 am. Probably caused by the jet lag. Or a full blather? Still managed to sleep again after reading for a while.


Summer house

The weather was surprisingly good today. We spent most of the day just alying in the sun, reading. And talking to grandmother and John. And eating.


Door of grandmother's summer hosue

In the afternoon we had a walk along the dirt road. Stopped to talk with some of the very few neighbors. Watching horses. Watching lambs. And some crazy Germans fishing.


Chie, John & grandmother John & a neighbor

In the evening we had dinner again. The jet lag kicked in around 9:30 pm and we went to bed.

Eh

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Waking up at a hotel at Arlanda airport was a new experience. And it made us hungry.

After breakfast we got our rental car and speed away towards my grandmother’s summer house in Eh outside Kilafors. It took us 3 hours including a stop in Gävle to buy some groceries at ICA Maxi and some wine at Systembolaget.

The most amazing thing at Chie discovered at ICA Maxi. A wall full of scanners for customers to pick up and do self scanning of their groceries. So that paying at the cashier will be quicker and easier.

When we arrived at my grandmother’s summer house my father and his wife Eva and John was there as well. Big welcome committee.


Nielsen family

We talked and talked. And then we had dinner before my father and Eva went home to Gävle.


John & grandmother Eva, father & Chie

Then we talked some more before Chie and I dropped dead in the bed.

Leaving Japan for Sweden

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Sony holiday and no workday today. Chie and I used it to go to Sweden. Our flight left Narita airport 11:15 am so we left home around 7 am and had breakfast on the Narita Express.


Chie at Shinagawa station

The flight were on time and we spent most of the time to Amsterdam watching movies and eating food.

In Amsterdam we spent 5 hours waiting on our flight to Stockholm doing shopping. Some YSL M7 to a friend in Tokyo. Some Toblerone. Some cosmetics. And so on, including dinner… A few times.


Chie at Amsterdam airport

Then a 2 hours ride to Stockholm. Picking up the bags and checking in at the SAS Radison hotel at the airport. We got the room farthest away on the 5th floor. When we finally reached the door at around midnight the key did not work.

So I had to go back to the reception. Get a new room. And then finally we could go to sleep.

Ishiki Beach

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Blue sky in the morning when we woke up. So our plan to go to the beach was implemented (Sorry for the tech talk… It means we had a plan to go and today we went 🙂 ).

It was 1 hour and 30 minutes train and bus rides to get to Ishiki beach. The beach here is black sand so it gets quite hot in the sun. But today it was a nice breeze making it perfect.


Ishiki beach

We lay down just in front of the Emperor’s summer house. But he came out and told us he didn’t mind… Or maybe he did not 😉


Chie at Ishiki beach Chie and Johan at Ishiki beach

It was a really great day at the beach. At around 4 pm we went back home. The bus stop just after we entered the bus it was a school class or something entering. It filled the bus with kids about 12 years old. All having a box of sea urchin, small crabs, and so on, that they had caught during the day.

Evil mind as Chie and I have we enjoyed the bus ride even more after the kids entered. Why? Well now we could see the surprised faces of all the people wanting to go home after a day at the beach but the bus just passed without even stopping at their bus stop 😉

First Photos with New Camera

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I have tried the new camera and it is amazing 🙂 It is like driving a Ferrari compared to driving a SAAB V4 (new vs. old)… Though I have only driven a SAAB V4 and not a Ferrari. But I can image driving a Ferrari compared to a SAAB V4 would be much like using my new Nikon D90 compared to my old Nikon D40.


Nikon D40 Nikon D90

Now it is really fun to take photos again (left photo above taken with Nikon D40 and right above is taken with Nikon D90). Though it is difficult to see on these compressed images the right one is so much clearer and better colors, which is not only due to better lighting condition. I think I need a new Mac with an empty HDD for all the new photos I will take 😀