Make a break!

Yes, that what was needed as I started a new job and had very much to do and get used to.  Working at a new place is mostly exhausting and in nursing and leading a group too it sure is. But after all it went well but gave me also much to think about what do I want and to remember that patience is important until you are really used to the new working place. Expectations are always high, especially when you're not the youngest. In the same time I just had moved and got used to a new lifestyle, as I used to live alone.

Living in Berlin is always a challenge and as things there always change, so your own impressions and feelings. But it is very interesting for me to see how much my own view on the town has changed in the last years and how far away I got and the result is that I am going to move to another town and place in the next years. Not sure when this will happen, as I just start to make my B.A. in medicine.

The new situation also made me think twice about working in Sweden again and then make it like a half year there and a half year stay in Berlin. But then it would be just to study and live and no work.

But as love life seems to work I also have to think about what happens with us...? Will he come with me? Where does he wants to live? 

Lucky as I am, he also wants to move away in the next years. Not now but in the future. But will it be Sweden? I am not that sure as he never was in Sweden himself and so when I made my break and traveled back to Gothenburg and visited my friends and second family I tried to see and find new things and ways to look at this place I knew. 

Some places do really look very similar to places in Germany and maybe just the roof is different. In town they build a lot these days and so you can discover a new tram line and again that old and new are mixed and next to each other. Also it is something special to have an amusement park in town you'll see when you come from outside Gothenburg by highway.

It is for sure much quieter to live in Gothenburg as in Berlin, thought it can be very lonely too there. And I don't know but I am a bit over the way of living in Berlin and ready for a live with less stress- or better less negative stress. 

Summer in Sweden can be very nice and of course visiting the islands is a must, as there it is really beautiful and peaceful to take a walk. But don't wonder if you won't be the only one.

I saw many friends on these three days and had some wonderful conversations. It always feels like home. And this break was appreciated as it seems I had worked such a long time- thought it was not that long ago that I started the new job. But then I am sure part of the need was, the so called wanderlust and that I was already so over Berlin. I do not feel home any longer there. 

Now I feel much better and hope you can enjoy my pictures and get an idea how wonderful it can be. This town has culture, food, ways to walk, nature and sun and even nice people living there. It is a bigger town as you may imagine and calm but not to calm after all- a bit traffic is always going on. 

Love & Light

first day I arrived late afternoon to have dinner with my dear colleague

second day I started with waiting in the bus station and enjoying the luck of sun and warm weather

in town and around you'll find those big rocks... actually they are no rocks it's what the ground is made of in many parts - stone

the blue bus who always brings me to town as I used to live at my second family in Landvetter and I do really love them

tram and buss stop - Brunsparken- in the centre of Gothenburg

I did well mention some things seems familiar...

a look to the centre from the river... or better from a bridge over the river

just on the other side the harbor and the new tram line

the opera house and the "lipstick" a office block

like I said- old and new next to each other

marine ships next to the harbor

click on the pics to get them bigger :-)

finally some typical houses.. 

the amusement park and the big ferris wheel and the three Gotha towers...

How could I not get some cake and coffee and a newspaper !

an international sailing competition took place

there is always another boat and you should make sure to be on the right one

your own little boat next to your home- how about that?

a view of the island Styrso Bratten 

inside it look kind of blue

bad  weather- no just salty water! 

London & me

Once again.. I took a short holiday and was in London... This time I stayed at the "Britannia International" which is a Hotel on the Canary Wharf. Peers who once where used and then stood still year after year till it looked like all should be putting away but then a bank build a big, big house and so the miracle started... Now this area is very modern, has also little houses... a lot of working place and of course you can live there, shop till you drop there and I was never before there... I liked it, and not because I got my room upgraded and stayed on the tent floor, which had a view on the river.... and the morning sun...

The Hotel seems to stay in the 70tis and the furnitures where a mix of .. well, kind of wannabe "Barock" and "Jugendstil", although somehow it matches everything... and thanxs big windows the room felt quite right... I cannot understand people who close the view they could have from the window.. I always liked it "pure".

London -as always makes me feel good and welcome... and I discover always some new things like the new grass they put in the parks because the Olympic had brought so much visitors that the grass was dying and dying... 

And oh I had the luck of sun... seems it was the first one sunny sunday this year, 'cos everyone was outside.. and the traffic as typically in London on weekends... someone told me... not really working...

But traffic was all the time not what I expected... Did not remember that the ways on the airport are so long and then the Gatwick Express which should not really take more then 30 min was late and then it took about 50 minutes and I though I could have taken the bus... well the same though was coming up when I drove back to the airport... late train, wrong gate, then I found the right train, but we had to change two station before the airport and run to the right train on another gate to drive us forward, although you needed eyes and a brain... :-) So after all, the 30 minutes became one hour.... But that's life and oh. so much like I know it from Berlin... everything is going on the way to renew... build new.. taken away or something like that... nothing really stays the same.. in good and bad....

Anyway, this time I saw much more the difference between Berlin and London.. beginning just with the buildings... the coffee, the colors of the houses, the toilets, the way people act and the mass of tourists...  and I think it is also because after seeing Dr. Who and Documentation about the History of London and after reading Shakespeare... I know a bit more and so my eyes catch new sides... which is so exiting.. 

If London would not be so expensive... I would move without doubt to town... 

Well I had the luck to take breakfast -a french one, in the greek street- and also to eat fish and ships- a must in my eyes- in one of the three oldest location who sell those since 1871... although.. I missed the Pups this time. I cannot say I was bored, more it was a little holiday like it should be.. 

Yes also with a walk in town and a visit in the National Museum... 

But now let's take a look at the pics...won't you?

there I got the very good french breakfast

the flowers in the National Museum.. oh the smell... of flowers... you really could smell them ..

Canary Wharf at the afternoon

the next morning.. can you believe the clouds so deep..?! And that was after the sun went up.. the sky was clear and blue before...unbelievable how it could change and with such a speed...

can you see the Big Ben?

new grass

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