Nightingale: fashionably random

Friday after school I went straight to the airport and went to Stockholm to sit my SATs at Rödaberga skolan, I did so on Saturday, and I think I did good…afterwards I met up with my mom in the Old Town /Gamla Stan and visited our “mandatory” Stockholm shops, including Zapata magical yogawear and Loni (which I’ll write a separate post about) and had lunch at Sallys in Old Town. Then we went to NK in search for the purse of my dreams, a bag by Sandqvist. Ok, the ultimate would be the bow purse by Miu Miu (which a girl I chatted with outside Rödaberga had, I’m soo jealous) or a Balenciaga motorcycle le dix, but I think a Sandqvist Meryl bag is more than expensive enough…anyhow it was sold out, totally ruined my day. Saturday night we went out at Stureplan and ate at a place called Vapiano, cheap and kinda hip I think…they’re Cosmos were great! Sunday; straight to the airport and home!

Four of the five lovely girls who ventured to Edinburgh (Edinbrrrah) in september

Ok, last night I came home from Edinburgh, a pretty little city, thought I’d write something about it. A lot of my friends, except the four I was going with wondered "what the fuck" I was going to do in Edinburgh, compared to cities like New York and Paris, Edinburgh doesn’t contain heaps of must-sees.

The main shopping street, Princes street was ok I guess, with the usual Topshop, Zara, Build a bear, HMV,Waterstones…What was really pretty about Princes street was Princes Street gardens, a park with colorful flowers (still, in september!), benches and a house, reminding me of that from Hansel and Gretel. Royal Mile, the tourist street was a pain. Anyhow I saw the Edinburgh castle, but skipped The Hollyrood House, castles are pretty. I also laid my eyes on Greyfriar’s Bobby and the statue of Adam Smith, although I don’t agree one hundred percent with his economic view it was cool to see. The fact that he wore a traffic cone on his head, looking like a clown, made it all the more enjoyable. We also went on one of those "mandatory" ghost trips, ok I guess, not too spooky, the tour guide freaked me out more than her stories did.

All the hours in between was spent eating or drinking. We got the best dinners at The elephant house who also served the tastiest hot chocolate ever, or uhm, more like Fleur’s fantasy, hot chocolate with bailys. We had some tasty kahlua at The Bank bar, watching some soccer game, but the tastiest coffees and the best atmosphere was found at Black Medecine coffee close to the Uni of Edinburgh. They had free Wi-Fi too…Spent quite a few hours there, Live had some homework to do and I tagged along, was about to blog about the two dickheads on the table next to us talking about how cheap norwegian and swedish girls are but then I realised that scotts do understand english…Anyways the coffee, the tuna melts and the staff were great, and the had pretty take-away cups too! Situated right by the Uni gave me a chance to pretend I was a uni student too, I felt sooo cool and even sneaked in on a law lecture on thursday. Oh yeah, on that note…we got student discounts almost everywhere, even Topshop!

I feel like I should write something about our accomodation as well, it was my first time staying at a hostel, so naturally I was a bit sceptic, but it was GREAT better than some of the hotels I’ve stayed at.

edit: Added a photo of Adam Smith

I’m going to Edinburgh tomorrow! So… what is the first thing we think about when we think of Scotland? Kilts and Whiskey…I kinda doubt there’s too many people walking around in kilts daily, but I’ll take a picture of every kiltwearing man I see…anyhow enjoy this picture in the meantime

At the moment I’m enjoying a sunny vacation in Greece, but what about next summer? There’s so many places I want to go, and so many things I want to see. Next year I’ve graduated so I guess I’ll have some limitations to where I’m able to go, both economic and when it comes to work and maybe even the startup at some kind of university or college. There’s just too many possibilities!

- I want to walk on the great wall of China

- I want to ride a Camel in the Sahara

- And all of the sudden I’m stuck…help me please!

Back from Finland! The weather sucked and I didn’t get to relax much, still I didn’t want to go home and already looking forward to next summer, there’s something serene about that place that helps me breathe from my stomack and reunite with nature or something, unless you have the stress of painting the cottage like this time. But next summer I swear I’ll just…..be…to sound kinda profound.

Leaving for Finland tomorrow morning, will be gone in two weeks. Oh yeah and today was one of the few sports events I care about, the wimbledon mens finale, last year Federer won for the fifth time in a row, this year Nadal won his first Wimbledon finale. So… about 365 days left till the next time I’ll be watching Euro Sport. They’re both really hot! (Tennis boys are normally not my type though..) Not too good looking in these photos though, but thought I’duse a photo of the ugly mug and the tea tray. oh and btw atleast Roger Federer went to a Balenciaga show once and Anna Wintour really likes him which makes every post I make about him kinda fashion related

ok, I promise this is my last Hove post, or atleast my Last Hove’08 post. So what did I learn after one week of camping? Not only did I discover new sides of my friends I also learned a great deal about myself.

• Norwegian men in their mid-twenties to late thirties can be kinda hot even though they have 17 year old daughters
• If you’re caught pouring liqour onto soda bottles on the street you get a fine
• Its possible to giggle yourself hoarse
• Don’t be so freakin judgemental, people from the westside can actually be nice!
• Random guys that stumble into the wrong tent may warm up your sleeping bag before you discover him and kick him out
• Rednecks are more willing to give you free beer

The soundtrack of Hove’08 (not my faves but def. the songs that reminds me of Hove’08, some performed onstage, some blasted out of an iPod boombox)

• Estelle ft. Kanye West- American boy
• The Raconteurs- Steady as she goes
• Jason Mraz- I’m yours
• Jay-Z- 99 problems
• In Flames- Cloud connected
• Maskinen- Alla som inte dansar är våldtäksmän
• DeLillos- Smak av honning
• The Wombats- Moving to New York
• The Kooks- Seaside

New york, New york

even more pics to justify my laziness, not even sure anyone is interested in seeing my photos, but I’m posting them anyway