Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Dalarna, my darling

I have officially made travel plans (bought tickets, made pasta, packed clothes) for tomorrow to go to the Dalarna region to go to these two places: Sundborn (via Falun) where Carl Larsson's house is, and Mora where artist Anders Zorn has a museum and house as well. Wish me luck! This trip is so much more expensive than I wish it was :( but I guess that's what you get for traveling alone. And sleeping indoors. But I will maybe save some money by eating only coffee and bread :) :) :) This is my hope at least. I know my host dad thinks its funny that I am bringing all my food with me, but food is really expensive!!! I think tomorrow morning before I leave I will bake the squash I bought a few weeks ago :S and salt and butter it and eat it for dinner on Thursday... or lunch Friday? I don't know. It's kind of heavy.

Anyways, bon voyage to me, and see you again Saturday if all goes well.

P.S. Mom told me not to eat squash for three days in a row for the reason that it will make me unhappy- I think she's right! Also I just realized that eating out in Stockholm is probably a lot more expensive than in Dalarna, so I just might be eating real lunch after all.

P.P.S. WHERE IS JON GARREY WHEN I NEED HIM!? Dear Jon, your travel planning skills are excellent. I just wanted to tell you so. You would have had this trip figured out WEEKS ago. Instead, tomorrow morning I am calling the place I hope to sleep tomorrow to see if they have any rooms :P

2 comments:

  1. the very best bread is dense ryebread with cooked fat and sky, (meat jelly), on top sprinkled with sea salt. I don't believe this is considered a health food. Next are rolls from a good danish bakery with lots of lurpak butter on them.

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  2. mora! i have about a half dozen friends who have studied in mora and would envy you if they were aware of your trek! i hope you enjoy it! there is a folk school there with which gustavus has a program. apparently it is lovely and you can learn cool things like carving techniques.

    squash is heavy and i would trust your mother, even though i love the stuff.

    yours,
    c

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