Where Thor Landed - Torslanda

Torslanda - Gothenburg (Sweden)

February, February, February.. What a month!

Wow! I must say, February's energy was quite full on. It was so strong, so many of us struggled with the amount of energy that influenced us immensely. Meditating a lot and walking out in nature really helps overcoming this intense emotional energy flow.

Throughout the month of February, Mats and I remained living in Torslanda with our friend Alex and his dog Kraban, who I call Krubby Wubby.

Torslanda, which is translated in english as Thor's landing, is an interesting area as it appears to be its own little town outside of Gothenburg. Although, even though Torslanda community has asked to be a separate town from Gothenburg, Gothenburg has a hard time letting go of Torslanda because the main industrial area of Volvo is located in Torslanda. Volvo is probably one of the main source of income in Gothenburg. So Torslanda remains a suburb of Gothenburg City. So they say.

The surrounding itself plenty of forest, which is nice. I was surprised when Mats showed me his old primary school which was very open and surrounded by the forest. That made me wonder back of all the schools I went to in Indonesia and Australia where all the schools were fenced around.
"It must be so easy for you guys to ditch school!" I said.
Then I wondered, what about the pedophiles?

Anyway..
On the 15th of February, Mats and I celebrated our 3rd year anniversary together. It's really interesting to think back and realize how long we've been living nomadic together.
That day, we went out for a long walk with Krubby Wubby and made some super delicious vegan sausage rolls for dinner with walnuts as the main ingredient. It really brings back memories of my time back in primary school in Sydney, when i used to buy sausage rolls from the cafeteria, but these ones tasted even better and it's so healthy, definitely guilt free.

The super duper extremely delicious and healthy vegan sausage rolls. My mouth is watering remembering how it tasted. Craving box, check! Baby and mama happy :-)

Waking up in the morning with Krubby Wubby sleeping on my feet, keeping them warm. Such a little cutey!

Going for our walk in to the forest. Apparently rhino looking horses aren't allowed to enter.

The frozen lake

We tested walking on the lake and it was walkable! Yaaaaaaay! Krubby Wubby is definitely having fun.

My first time walking on a frozen lake. So exciting!

A walk in the woods

Mats' primary school behind the trees

Gone for a walk with Krubby Wubby and he found another frozen lake to walk over

An interesting looking church close to the square dated 1780

Beautiful magnificent tree beside the church at the cemetery at Torslanda Torg

I've been seeing these trees a few times now in Sweden. It's such an interesting tree. I love it.

Bun In The Oven

Torslanda - Gothenburg - Ullared

A couple of months has passed and I have been missing my period.
This must be because I'm transitioning to become a breatharian. Perhaps my body is getting used to the change. I thought.
Then I started to feel changes in the lower part of my body.
"My belly seems to be growing," I said to Mats while looking in the mirror.
"Maybe because you're eating again," Mats replied. "Your boobs are getting bigger as well"
"I've noticed that as well," I said. "And they hurt like hell."

Could it be? I thought. Could it be that I'm pregnant?

To know for sure, we went to the women's clinic and had a test done. The result showed that it was positive.
So, there you go. We are happy to say that we're having a baby who is supposedly coming in June-July.

It appears that my breatharian transition process has led me to self healing. When my body was not receiving any water or food, my body had the time to be able to focus on healing the areas that needed attention and my reproductive system was one of them.

The healing came from within and it was perfect.

Here's my baby bump

Growing belly belly BELLY!

OK, enough talk about the bun in the oven.
Lets take a look at some pictures of what's been up in January.

This is my favourite christmas dessert called risalamalta

Gothenburg, still full of the christmas decorations

Downtown Gothenburg

Little ducks swimming on the cold canal in central Gothenburg

This is Gothenburg's first harbour

Gothenburg, the city full of cranes

It was snowing when I woke up one morning. This is the area we currently live in.

This is the view from our bedroom window.

I made a miniature snow duck. Quack quack!

On our way to Ulvvad to check out a house we were interested to live in.

After checking out the house, we continued our journey to visit Sweden's most popular town to shop, Ullared.

It was a town full of shopping centres in the middle of the forest and this is the car park.

Even the trolleys needed a parking space inside of the supermarket.

A lego of the shopping centre we visited in Ullared.

So, cheers to another life changing experience.

1ove <3

End of 2016 in Gothenburg

Varobacka - Gothenburg - Gommet

New Gregorian Year. 

New Beginning.

New Chapter.

"Gott Nytt år!" Shouts us on the street of Gothenburg, while lighting fireworks that have been selling like crazy all over town.

The night was wet and cloudy, but it didn't stop us from lighting fireworks at midnight.

Explosions of sounds that scares the dogs and beautiful colourful flowery lights up in the cloudy night sky.

HAPPY NEW GREGORIAN YEAR, EVERYBODY!

The winter wasn't so cold yet, so the week before Mats and I moved out of Väröbacka, we spent a weekend hiking and camping with Jimmy around an area called Gommet, just north of Gothenburg. We walked 12-13 kms in the mossy green forest and camped the night by a beautiful lake.

I love this beautiful wise mossy tree.

Walking through the fluffy soft mossy forest

The mysterious mist hovering over one of the lakes we walked by

Jimmy climbing up the hill

By the cliff enjoying the amazing view full of mist, yet we can still see the beautiful scenery slightly hiding amongst the mist.

Enjoying my eggplant sandwich while enjoying the view at our camping spot

One of my favourite pictures taken at our camping spot

Cooking Chilli Con Veggie while keeping ourselves warm 

Our home for the night

After finishing the last week working at the rims and tyres workshop in Väröbacka, we headed up to Gothenburg. We celebrated a no white Christmas with Mats' family and Jimmy. It was a stormy Christmas Eve and most people in Sweden knew that it was going to be a bad weather. How did everyone guessed it?

Well, apparently Christmas weather is the same weather as the name day that falls on the 1st of December. So, unfortunately, there was no white christmas again.

Frosty Väröbacka just before we left

Misty and frosty Väröbacka. Bye for now.

The night before Christmas Eve, we  had an early Christmas dinner with Peter (on the right) and Jolene (on the left) at Helena's (in the middle) apartment

Bengt-Oke (on the left) posing infront of the Christmas decorations

Cute Christmas decorations at Helena and Bengt-Oke's apartment

It's 3pm on Christmas Eve! Time for everybody in Sweden to sit down in front of the television and keep up the tradition watching Disney cartoons that play the same thing every year.

Patrik digging in the Christmas dinner buffet

Beautiful view of Gothenburg from the apartment

So, cheers for a new beginning in a new gregorian year.

May we all grow stronger and wiser.

May we all unite more together away from the illusion of separation.

Because, We Are One.

1ove <3

The 'Good' Housewife

Varberg - Varobacka - Gothenburg

"Beep! beep! beep! beep!"

I shake Mats' shoulder to wake him up so he would turn the alarm off next to him. He gets up, presses the snooze button and goes back to sleep. Then a variety of annoying alarm sounds goes off every 10 minutes until the clock shows 7.30am. Mats finally wakes up and gets ready to work, while I stay in bed (the best thing about being a housewife, especially when having vivid dreams once I sleep again after getting up early in the morning).

Once I'm ready to get up, I do my late morning housework and prepare lunch to deliver to Mats at the rims and tyres workshop just behind the apartment we are currently living in. Someone once told me that the best place to work is the one that is closest to your home. So, I guess in our case, it's the best place to work.

So, that's pretty much been my Monday to Friday morning routine since we arrived in Sweden and for the whole month of November. Before Mats comes home, I spend time at home working on some arts and crafts or I go out in to the forest until sun down when it's not raining or too cold outside. Once Mats comes home, I prepare dinner for his hungry belly after a long day at work.

It's been quite an interesting experience to be a housewife. Something that I haven't had much experience with in my life. I never thought I would really enjoy being a housewife. The virgo in me definitely loves it.

Braided Mats' hair and beard so it's not in the way while working

Mats at the workshop

Finding Mats working hard when I deliver lunch

One of the lunch that I brought for Mats. Toasted cheese sandwich; salad; and egg salad and cheese on toast. Best thing about working around the corner is that I can deliver warm food. Perfect for the cold climate.

Spending time with my friends and family in the forest

One of the arts I made. I think this is the best one I've made so far.

Walking Zigge after the boys came back from work. This is early November, when autumn was still in the air.

Coming back to the apartment from the forest, enjoying the beautiful sunset

Varobacka is a cute little village with a beautiful sunset.

Made vegan banana bread and vegan stir fry for dinner. Mats couldn't wait to dig in, but he was kind enough to smile and pose for the camera.

Vegan chocolate blunt cake for a weekend dessert.

The blunt cake is Puuuuurfect with Oatly's vanilla sauce. Oatly brand is probably the best thing I love about Sweden.

One Saturday noon after coming back from work. Mats, Zigge, Tobias with a cute pillow of Zigge on a tyre

One snowy day in Varobacka. Temperature has been so weird lately. Early November was -8 and now it's back to +8.

The highlight of our week is the weekends, where Mats and I would cruise (actually I wouldn't say cruise with mr Speedy Gonzales driving in his hometown) up with Tobias's car to Gothenburg (Thanks Tobias! <3). 

Driving up to Gothenburg and had to stop to take a picture of this beautiful sunset.

Parked Tobias's car on our favourite spot infront of Jimmy's apartment.

Hanging out with Jimmy, Tindra, Anna-Lee and her daughter at central station

The toughest part of being a 'good' housewife is that, wait before I say it, I don't mean to sound narcistic, but I make amazing food, which sometimes I astonish myself with. The temptation to try my own cooking lately that it has been tricky for me to stay away from consuming it myself.

Spending time in Varobacka has been quite an interesting experience. It is a very small village consisting of a few blocks of housings and a commercial block consisting of a grocery store, hairdresser, farmer shop, a tattooist, pizza. The village reminds me abit of Orient Point, the place where I used to live in Australia before living nomadic.

What I love about this small little village is that there are apple and pear trees in the wild, so I have been picking some seasonal apples and pears that taste soooooo delicious! Hmm, really loving this breatharian transition process due to the exentuation of the sensitivity in my taste buds. But also, of course because the fruits are in season, so they do taste divine. 

Well, I guess that's all the update from me for November. See you next month.

1ove <3