Photo Round Up Of Our Last Walk!

Better late than never the last few days of holiday

Wednesday 1st October 

By now we are in get the getting ready to head home state of mind. So since the weather was pretty good we decided we would go out for a nice walk and then when we got back I could do some more uni work. Deadline is approaching fast! 

En route to the walk mag mentioned that there is a Dollar store near by, and suggested we check it out. Always one to look for a bargain, I was looking forward to having a mooch about. 

I had a good look around, ended up getting the last lot of sweets for presents and other bits and bobs. 

After this we headed to town. 

After driving around a bit we managed to get parked up. Next on the agenda was LUNCH! Since we didn't know if we would get fed on the ferry or not  we wanted to have a nice big lunch. 

We found an Indian which we had walked past the week before. Had a look at the menu and everything sounded super nice! Off we went! 

We got all the above for only £14!!!! It included naan, curry with rice a little bit of potato curry, unlimited drinks and salad bar! It was fantastic. Would really go back there again. It was called the Star :) 

After lunch we wandered around some more, I saw a studio called Barbarella. Mag suggested we have a look in there to see what the jewelry they have. I loved it. I looked at everything, it was so good. Expensive but good, and well I ended up getting my other nostril pierced. The guy who pierced it was fantastic. Such a really nice cool guy. 

After this it was time to head to the ship. Oh boy this was hard work. Mag had lost the address. Much stress happened in the car. Eventually we found the blue building, and checked in. 

We then had to sit around for about 2 hours until we were allowed on board. 

Once onboard we headed to our prison cell, well I mean cabin! 

 

As you can see from the photos there was not that much room lol. We had bunk beds, a little table, a sofa and a shower with toilet. 

We heard the sound of cutlery, and nearly ran out of the room down the only hallway we were allowed to go down, and saw people getting food. Turns out that the chief left out a few plates of food for us. We had 3 bits of random meat 2 boiled potatoes with gravy. 

After that we went back to the cabin, I decided to take some sleeping tablets and well that knocked me out until the next morning! I woke up late so I missed breakfast, I was not too bothered if i'm honest. Mag went off to get some food. I just went back to sleep again. I think I slept until about lunch time. We had 30 minutes to eat. I had pasta and sauce. It was really good. 

After this we went back to the cabin again, we played on our tablets for ages. Mag snoozed a bit more, I snoozed a bit more as well! Then it was dinner time. I gave this a miss as it was some sort of eggy pork thingy. I just had rice and salad. It was pretty good :) 

I then again went back to sleep, i was so bored by now. It got around to 9pm we had a mobile signal again and felt a bit closer to home. We thought we would be docking at 9 but it was infact 10pm. We didn't get off the boat till gone 10:30. 

Trying to drive home was stupid. We didn't get back till about 2AM....each road we went down it was closed....after much swearing and exasperation. We made it home. Unpacked the important bits from the car and went to sleep!

The next update I will just add a load of photos of the holiday. Since i'm so overdue typing this up, since we got home i've been trying to sort out Uni work, being back at work and being ill. Its been a nightmare!! 

TTFN 

All work and no play makes Vikx go cray cray......

28th September - 30th September 

Oh how I wish I could give you an update where we did something exciting, like ermmm extreme dog sledding or moose wrestling, but alas this will not be the case. 

You see as well as working full time, learning to skate and play roller derby again and running a house/zoo. I also am studying to get a degree, and this has meant that Uni work has had to come along with me on holiday. I have a deadline of the 23rd of October for 2 assignments. One is done and needs fine tuning the other, I just started this week. 

Currently at 600 words done out of 3000 so only 2400 to go! YaY Go me -_- 

So yes on Sunday the 28th not much really happened. We popped out at about lunch time to have a quick look around some factory shops. I got 2 new scarves which I have forgotten to take a photo of. One of them is black with red lips AKA rocky horror style and the other is white with red lips.  

I saw a top I really liked but it was £40. Now I really did like that top but no way on this earth was it worth £40. She says after just buying some leggings from the States for £36. Humm they are handmade and stuff..... oh well. 

Here we see Mag modeling the top for me....(he will kill me for this im sure)

We went in to this one shop and the prices where nuts. 

Ok so the jumper in question is designer but it works out at over £130 just for a jumper. Needless to say we left pretty quickly! 

After this we had dinner early, so grabbed a pizza whilst we were in town. If you can call it a town. Headed home ate and then I carried on with the uni work. See nothing exciting at all. 

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29th September 

Again today was going to be another day for me to put what research I have done into words. Whilst mag did something. Not quite sure what he did as each time I looked at him he was sat on the sofa :p 

We did pop to the local ICA so I could pick up my new debit card. My replacement arrived at home and then was sent over to me here! \o/  So that was a little break. Since I knew we would not be going out much I wanted to wander around the ICA a little. This place is about the size of a Co-op so yeah the wandering did not take that long. 

Go back home and started to work. Had a meltdown part way through and look the laptop up stairs and worked up there alone for a while. Got a fair bit done. One to part C on question 1. Il get it done. Just need to put the time in to it. Hence why doing it on holiday is not such a bad thing after all. I mean its not like I am at work or anything is it! 

Mag and I shared some noodles which he cooked and that was our evening. We were a tad disappointed in the TV schedule as Kitchen Nightmares was supposed to be on the carry on from last weeks episode we watched, but they ended up playing the same one again. I got bored and went to bed. Still trying to find the rest on YouTube so we can find out what happened! 

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30th September 

Took a break from the uni work to head over to jönköping to look at the A6 centre and to get some bits from City Gross and Ikea. 

We both wanted to get some wall decals we saw in Ikea. So after we had lunch at a really nice buffet. We headed on over.

Photo to the left is the first of 2 helpings I had. We have 

Beef meatballs 

New potatoes

1 slice of ham and pineapple pizza

and dauphinoise potatoes. 

After we both realised that our eyes were far far far bigger than our bellies (especially mag) we walked next door to Ikea. Since we knew what we wanted and where we could get it. It was a pretty simple and each mission. In fact I was walking so fast mag asked ME to slow down. This never happens. 

I would love to put a photo up of what we got but one of them is for a friend. Once I have put the others up at home and I still remember to do this blog I will put a photo up!! 

After Ikea, we headed to the car to drive over to City Gross. I love this place. Big Blue and Yellow supermarket! 

I decided to take some photos of the store of the more popular items they have there. Mainly tea, sweets, home brewing and ermm something else which right now for the life of me I cannot remember!! DOH. 

One thing that I noticed was their Energy Zone, an area purely for Energy Drinks. All kinds, and no I did not try any of them at all. It is once in a blue moon I drink energy drinks these days. 

As you can see, it's pretty well displayed. They have the usual Monster and Red Bull but there are some more unusual ones in there too. For example Burn energy drink, Which is produced by Coca-Cola apparently. 

Here is a little photo of mag with the basket!

Now this area to the left is great. Its all for home brewing and not just beer! Those little glass bottles are flavouring for booze. Not sure how it works but they are all pretty colours and flavours. I could have spent ages going up and down there but mag wanted to get a move on. Ooops. Hopefully before we go home on Friday I can get some more photos.

Another thing I have come to notice is their love of Tea. They have so many types of fruit tea its awesome. Smells great to. I love walking down the tea aisle Same for coffee. 

 

Now what I noticed about this tea section was that they had their own loose tea pick and mix. I took a little while smelling them all. My favourite was green tea with passion fruit. Oh it smells yummy. 

The photo at the top is the coffee aisle. This is on both sides. So there is the instant kind and then the kind you can put into a coffee machine in the tab form, and then there is of course the bean kind! 

Last but not least one of the biggest sections in the supermarket 

SWEETS!!!! 

Yes that's right, the Swedish do sure love their sweets! There are 7 aisles in total for sweets. I only took photos of 5 as A) there were people on the other 2 and B) it was only a pick and mix the same brand you get at a tesco...

The photo above is the chocolate bar aisle. So we have things from Lindt and Marabou. Their flavours are all pretty much the same at home. I guess Marabou is their equivalent of Cadburys.  

The photo below is an area just for liquorice, not normal liquorice though. This was like gourmet stuff. Not really my cup of tea at all. 

The photos below are for the mints, Fishermans Friend, which mag has told me is not your friend. Really have no idea what he was on about, and also the gummy sweets like Haribo. They do not appear to do large bags of Haribo that often. Instead it is normally the smaller bags, but on offer so you can get a few of them. I think I would prefer that than just one big bag of the same. 

It also has typical Swedish sweets on there like Ahlgrens Bilar and also the Swedish version of midget gems. What they also have is the more gimmicky sweets for example a gummy pizza or gummy laces. 

Last but not least, the one aisle I regularly look at. On here we have the more "normal" and commercial sweets. SO your Daims, and Pollys and Dumle. Japps, which is pretty much a mars bar! 
Non Stops, which are a mix between m&m's and skittles! I am yet to try them. They sound different. Apparently the coating is fruit flavoured. 

Well I hope you enjoyed the ramble and having a look at some parts of the supermarket. I was not brave enough to make a video!

I shall leave you with some photos of the drive home 

TTFN 

More cakes and a designer ice cream!

Following on from the post the other day where mag and I tried some of the nice and not so nice local cakes. Here are the last 2! 

First up we have the muffin, which is not quite a muffin but really wants to be a muffin. 

As you can see it really wants to be a muffin but it has a massive hole in the middle. Like wheres the top gone. Where is the dome?!

Oh well, it looked tasty. I cut it open and the cake part was very moist and looked lovely think the jam was raspberry. That tasted good too. All in all it was not bad. Certainly up there with the doughnut impostor. 

Vikx - 8 out of 10 

Mag - 7 out of 10 

Would recommend this one if you see it!

Next up we have a love heart pastry thing. 

 Oh how I wish this one was more exciting. Sadly its not. This review won't even be exciting. I mean I have no idea how to make a plan ass boring cake exiting. 

OK on to the cake, its all pasty with a custard filling. Cutting it open, we found that there was a decentish layer of filling inside, although I feel there was too much of a gap between the top and the filling ending. The custard was pretty generic too. Nothing overly exciting there. It turns out the Swedish really love their custard! You can buy it in all sorts of forms, pre made in cartons etc. 

Mag really enjoyed the cake. I can't say I did!! I mean if I had to I would eat it.

Vikx - 4 out of 10 

Mag - 6 out of 10

Last but not least the designer magnum! We spotted this the other day but declined to by it was it was pretty expensive. Roughly £2.50. Not too far off what we would pay at home but still. Ive got things to save my money for! 

Here its is a Dolce & Gabbana ice cream! 

The flavour is pistachio and with white chocolate and chocolate chunks.  

It certainly looked pretty, but what matters is how it tastes! I forgot to take a photo of the first bite :( 

What I did not realise was that the ice cream was rock freaking solid. Not like a normal magnum which you can bite into and hear the fantastic crack of the chocolate. Oh no this was bite in, get some chocolate and then leave your teeth embedded in the ice cream.....

Once I left it for a little while to soften, I was able to take a bit and see what was inside. The ice cream was creamy, with chunks of pistachio and chocolate. Now the mix of white chocolate on the outside with the milk or dark on the inside was a bit odd. 

Both mag and I agree that it would be much nicer if they chose just one type of chocolate and stuck to it. Instead of mixing them all together. In fact mag only ate his half after I ate all the chocolate off it first! 

Over all for the price, I would say its totally not worth it. I feel like you only really paid for the fancy box. Why not just shove it in a normal foil bag like the rest. Or is that not good enough for ones designer ice cream... Hummm

I can honestly say we will not be trying on of these again, unlike the fantastic strawberry and white chocolate one we found. That one we would eat again! 

Vikx - 3 out of 10 

Mag - 7 out of 10 (only without all the white chocolate on it) 

TTFN