Like day and night

God day mate!

This time it’s notit ain’t Linnéa or Linnéa, it’s Linda! I’m going to continue this blog by talking about my journey to Sweden too.

The reason that I visited Sweden was because my sister transfered to Halmstad which is a city in south Sweden on the west coast. She studies social psycology at Halmstad University. Since I hadn’t seen her for almost a year I figured now was the time. She really enjoys it here so I thought I might too. As fast as I landed on Arlanda Airport I asked myself; why did my sister move here? It’s cold, it’s raining and it’s nothing else but grey! Don’t judge me as fast as I judged Sweden, because I’m from Australia and where I’m from we only have sunshine and warmth.

But what I really enjoyed was the food! Back home I’m used to lots of meet, meet pies, steaks, sausages and such. In sweden, meet is as usual as in Australia. They got meet balls, sausages, chop and the list goes on. The biggest differ was that in Sweden they only got one kind of milk while in Australia you can find 20 differents flavours of milk. It can be with strawberry, banana, pear and so on. The same thing about sodas, Australia got hundreds of different flavours while in sweden they got the basics like, coke, sprite and tropical. In Australia we like to mix the flavours that already are and make new out of them, we mix coke and orange soda and that’s a great flavour.
Since I came here in the middle of november the preparations for christmas was already in motion. My sister told me that the thought behind Christmas is the same as in Australia and the Christmas food reminds of the Australian. Back home we got turky or ham, giant prawns, potatoes, herring and lots of home made candy for example ice chocolate and toffee.



Th most famous dessert in in Australia is of course "Vegemite". It's a chocolaty, sticky and spreadable. The aussies use it on bread and toast. If you really want to fit in in Australia you have to like Vegemite. Everybody eats it and if you won't like it ... well, find out yourself what happens. This has become more of a national dish in Australia.


I like the swedish food just as much as back home in australia ! I went to Sweden just in time to see the snow, which we never have in Australia except some parts. I got really cheery when I saw the snow and it was just like in a movie so when I went back home we bought fake-snow and puted it on our front lawn. Well, I would love to go back there again during christmas time.

Bye Bye then ! Linda