Update!!! starting with Scandinavia

Almost 2 years after the last post, as I am about to go abroad again, I come back to this blog to tell my life!
To start, let's talk about my vacation in Norway and Sweden.

Landing in Trondheim (Norway) in the evening, my friends took me to a 2 days hike in the moutains. Spring was ending, the snow was melting, and my feet went wet!


But the weather was so great and the place so peaceful that it was quickly forgotten! Especially once we crossed the river by boat to reach the canbin, made by students.


Waiting for the ferry to go back to Trondheim...


The day after, we went on a 2 days trip to Geiranger, known to be one of the most beautiful fjord of the country.








We finished by visiting Trondheim and its nice medieval cathedrale, known to be the one the most in the North in the world!



The University of Trondheim

Trondheim from the hill

Saying goodbye in a panoramic restaurant with the sun setting on the fjord of Trondheim...




In France we have swimming pools, in Norway they have tramplines! I wish I was a child there...


In the air to Sweden...






Starting with Skansen, the oldest open air museum in the world (1891)


Traditional wooden church


Laplander hutes



Raindeers

Moose
Bison

View on Stockholm from Skansen

In the royal Djurgarden

Nordiska Museum: Swedish way of life along the years

Vasa Museum: bringing back a 400 years old sail boat from the see:


Ferry cruise in the archipelago of Stockholm









Never far from work... (private joke for my colleagues from the CEA ;-)

End of a beautiful day...

KTH Royal Institute of Technology


Olympic stadium


What a better day than the King's birthday to start visiting Stockholm!





The City Hall, where the Nobel Prices awards take place


Hostel on a sailboat...




Weird sculpture...
Shall I precise that it's much better than fast food? ... and actually it WAS very fast!


Dalarna, peaceful region in the North of Stockholm, around Lake Siljan







A lot of wood! for...
Ikea?
Or the world famous Dala-Horse?



Entering a magic place...


Trying the local food:
"Winner of the North Europe Pizza Championship 2008": duck breast, chanterelle muschrooms, and blackcurrent sauce!

Fish in white wine sauce and mashed potatoes

Fried camembert with cloudberry jam and vanilla ice cream...

Chocolate cakes and marzipan! :-)


650m long wooden jetty of Rättvik, and its permanent iceberg


Upasala, known for its cathedrale and university




Medieval village