DaSwede....

[beryllium]

Hey, DaSwede, what's left of my family live in Sweden, mother is Swedish... they live in Huddinge and Norrtalje...

just out of curiosity, where are you?

[DaSwede]

Hi beryllium, I'm in the centre of Stockholm, commuter-close to Huddinge and perhaps a couple of car hours away from Norrt�lje (not too sure.) Let me know if there's something I can do for you (like looking something up in a phone directory or something.) I don't have the internet at home, but I'll check in here again before I leave this internet caf� tonight, and the next time I'm at one. Ha det bra! (Be well.)

[beryllium]

Hej DaSwede, mina mamma hete Birgitta Borelius, but my dad is English....

I miss wild Swedish strawberrys and summer house....and liqourice (lakrits) shots....and the beautiful smell of the firs and pines in the forests, my uncle was in charge of the hunting there, and yes, roast moose was on the menu....

sweet dreams of lakes tonight.....

[JustSia]

Lived in Stockholm for 5 years myself. Great memories. Would definitely love to go back and travel around.

Damn, I'm all nostalgic now.

S.

[beryllium]

hej, JustSia, so where were you? near Stockholm? what were you doing over there? a couple of our friends left to move there last year.

I love Huddinge and of course Skansen....

and Kalles Kaviar....... on rye..... sigh...........

[JustSia]

Hej beryllium! My parents worked in Stockholm for a while so I stayed with them. Lived just across from Svenska Dagbladet building (awesome New Year fireworks). I never got a chance to travel much, which is exactly why I would love to go back.

We used to go fishing and mushroom and berry picking. My mum was big on going to the strawberry farms and I can't tell you how many stomach aches I had to put up with stuffing myself silly (yes, I know self-inflicted). Lakes, forests - absolutely beautiful. I could definitely live there.

As to where I am - Geordie land.

S.

[beryllium]

oh JustSia, wild Swedish strawberries, we used to be taken to the forests with our uncle and just pick them where they grew by the paths and just wild. Chantarelle mushrooms, just wild growing and tasting beautiful.

Uncle took us to where he would shoot from the hunting tower, and showed us a Buzzards nest, top top secret and protected by the hunters.... what a sight....

Fisk? herring....salmon gravalax, homemade.. there was one Swedish resaurant in London called Garbos and I miss it....moved to Kent...

and bootleg homebrew.... proper stills... hehe

[DaSwede]

Heck, now you've got me nostalgic...

[JustSia]

Just going back to your other post beryllium, I never did get a taste for lakrits, but loved kefir, why oh why do they not sell it in the UK, after all they are so big on 'culture' here. Could never find good mayo back then, mind you that was years ago.

People there are amazing, appear quiet and reserved at first but get to know them and they are the most wonderfully welcoming and friendly bunch I have ever met.

I met Astrid Lindgren whilst I was there, amazing lady, GRHS. Shame no one has heard of Karlsson here, fantastic guy, and just plump enough:0)

Aaaaah, the memories....

Sia.

[beryllium]

you're nostalgic, Da Swede? you're living there!!! I need herring....now....... :-)

http://www.thekefirshop.co.uk/

is this what you mean Sia?

[JustSia]

http://www.kefir.net/

Drink specifically.

S

[beryllium]

Hej, Sia... it looks very healthy and the site i also posted has the instructions on how to use it in milk... i'm a goats milk person, and i'm rather tempted to order some to give it a go... :-)

[beryllium]

Hej, DaSwede, would it be possible to find out if this girl is Ronnies daughter please. I am on Froggers aswell and that is easier for personal messages....

http://www.poeter.se/poetHome.php?writerId=6082

[beryllium]

this is the other link

http://www.phpbbserver.com/froggersworld/index.php?mforum=froggersworld

[JustSia]

Morning beryllium!

It's a nice drink. Hope you like it.

Have a great weekend.

S.

[beryllium]

Morning Sia, big smiles to you... :-)

[DaSwede]

Hi beryllium, I won't be joining Froggers World, but if you want to send me some information of a more private nature concerning the persons involved, you may do that at [email protected] (note the t). I don't really use that mailbox, only created it to join the AB, but I will check my mail there for a week or so, to see if you've contacted me.

About this girl, I wonder if Fritchoff isn't an alias. It sounds like a rather common Swedish name that can be both a surname and a male Christian name, but the spelling is either Frithiof or Fritiof. I searched one of the online phone directories, www.hitta.se," target="_blank">http://www.hitta.se">www.hitta.se, for Fritchoff, and found none. With a different spelling, there were hundreds of Frit(h)iofs and two ronny - one of them in Huddinge, no less. I could make the phone call for you, but then you'd have to reveal your identity to me, of course.

The same girl (I think) is a member at this community as well. The blue link E-post means e-mail. On Poeter.se, the link you posted here, it says she lives in J�nk�ping (I lived there for 6 years!), but at Skunk it says she lives in Vetlanda (not too far from J�nk�ping, as I recall.)

Let me know. Best, DaSwede

[DaSwede]

Hi JustSia, we still don't have any decent mayo... but hundreds of different yoghurts, I don't know what's with us, we're hysterically into yoghurt. Thank's for your kind words about our national character traits, it warms my heart. About Astrid Lindgren, what does GRHS stand for?

[JustSia]

Hi DaSwede!

GRHS - God rest her soul. I met her 1986, if my memory serves me right.

Re: my comments - any time. I really did have the most wonderful time in Sweden. A lot must have changed in 20 years (geez, has it been that long?) but the way I remember it this country could/should learn a thing or two from yours.

BTW, thank you for your support in the other thread, made me smile.

All the best.

S.

[DaSwede]

Hi JustSia, I was going to ask you if you knew that Astrid Lindgren died a couple of years ago, but I guess your GRHS answers that one for me... Anyways, if you haven't already read Mio,my Mio, maybe you should. I haven't read it myself, but it seems to be the one of her children's books that most adult readers appreciate.

Yeah I guess a lot has changed in 20 years - everything but the mayo... Ha det bra!