I flew from the heat, noise and bustle of Alicante airport at the beginning of July and landed at Copenhagen airport 4 hours later.( Although it´s in Denmark, it´s the nearest airport for us in Southern Sweden). Amazingly, it was very hot, almost as hot as it had been in Spain but what really sruck me was the quiet.
Copenhagen is a huge airport but compared with Alicante, it was unnervingly quiet, almost as if people were observing a period of mourning and silence had been requested! I´d forgotten that it can be like that in Scandinavia. Loud conversations aren´t appreciated - people are much more reserved and controlled here. It´s taken me nearly a month to get used to it again!
The good weather didn´t last long. For the past fortnight it has resumed par-for-the-course Swedish summer weather. Grey skies, cloud, lots of rain. However, it hasn´t stopped us from going out a lot and after the debilitating heat of the Costa in summer, it´s really quite refreshing!
I´ve been visiting friends, eating all the food we don´t get in Spain and really appreciating the lush greenness and abundance of flowers here. It´s also very organised and well-ordered, so life is smooth and relatively trouble-free when it comes to the everyday stuff ( the buses come according to the timetable, things actually start when they´re supposed to....)
I´ve been reading quite a few Swedish books and am really pleasded that my Swedish has come up to scratch pretty quickly. The other day I went to see the Swedish version of the first Stieg Larsson book of the Millenium series. It was really good and I enjoyed it tremendously. The cinema was very comfortable so it was quite an experience after the little local cinema where I live in Spain.
The picture is of a typical Swedish summer place by a lake.
