Cat accident

Misse the cat

I am back to Sweden again, now staying at mum's house near Malmo.
Will stay here during the rest of the summer.

An accident happened to mum's cat, we don't know exactly what had happened. She has a big sore on her paw and is limping.

At first we thought the cat had jumped off a roof, but the veterinarian thinks it was in a fight with an another cat. The veterinarian told my mum to give the cat medicine every day for one week.

Misse's paw in bandage

My English date in Newcastle

The "Millenium bridge" in Newcastle

Last week, I have travelled to Newcastle, England for a couple of days. I met my English date and spent some days with him there. It was hot and sunny there, about 30 C degrees, little hotter than at home in Sweden. It rained one day, the other days was sunny.
How did Newcastle got its name? A long time ago, someone built a castle for himself there, and then he told people about his new castle upon Tyne. That's how Newcastle got its name.

The village Whitby and the old ruins

I visited some villages outside of Newcastle: Whitby, York, Stockton, Darlington.
Whitby is a special little village, the tv-series "Emmerdale" and "Heart beat" have been filmed on location there. Whitby Abbey, the ruins have inspired Bram Stoker to the movie Dracula.
There is some kind of a Dracula-festival going on there once every year, people dress as Dracula, witches, magician etc and do some partying there.
Whitby is also known for an another thing - Captain James Cook have lived there (you know the captain who sailed to New Zeeland and Australia).

The village York and the Roman Wall

York is an old town from the Roman Empire and you can go on a ghost trail there, as the tourist broschures says. According to the tourist broschures, ghost are walking around in York, especially on the Roman Wall. The Romans built a wall to prevent York from beeing attacked by the Scots.
It seems that some Roman soldiers have been left there and still patrol on the wall, but now as ghosts. Notice the picture, that there is no fence to avoid people to fall off, and it was a steep hill down there. It was little nervous to walk there, and I had to walk carefully not to fall down.

Dog statues in Stockton

There are some cute dog statues in Stockton. Other than that, there isn't much to see there.

The date went fine and he was an nice man. I must think about this for a while.

Gone fishing

Today I am almost alone at my work, except 2 colleagues, because everybody have gone fishing. They are on summer holiday. I will work this week, but next week I will start my summer holiday too.

In Sweden people have the right to take 5 weeks holiday from their work. Most people take 4 weeks holiday in July month, because July is the warmest month here in Sweden. The 5^th week, most people save it for Christmas-New Years holidays.

So, from next Monday, I will be off work for 4 weeks on my summer vacation, and I can go on the two dates I wrote about earlier. Most of the summer, I will stay at mum's house and spend time with my family. During a couple of days, I will travel to Newcastle, England and meet the English date. Then I will meet my second date, the Norwegian date in Sweden during one day.

Have a nice summer everybody!