Erasmusu in Sweden (Pablo en)
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An entire year living in Sweden gives to you hundreds of experiences. And not all of them can be gathered in only one blog. This blog collect little experieces in Sweden, pieces of advise, unnoticed details, etc (en)
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Natural water, please!
If you don’t like drinking fizzy drink, be careful in Sweden. As well as in many other European countries, in Sweden is most common the fizzy carbonated drink (with bubbles) than the still drink (without bubbles). In many supermarkets, they even don’t have still...
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Swedish magazines
In Sweden, the long and dark winters force people to stay long times at home without going out. This make that many people focus on the yellow press of the TV or magazines, giving more importance to the famous lives than to their own ones. Therefore it is vey common to...
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Bread with gold price
In Spain bread is sacred in every meal of the day. And there is nothing better than eating a good bocata between the breaks of the classes or dipping the piece of bread to get the most of the fantastic food you are cooked. But here in Sweden eating good bread is almost...
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WTF?????
What is this? A handle for the milk tetrabrick? Ok, when you think that Sweden can not surprise you anymore, suddenly you find this in the supermarket. XDDDDDDD
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The outpatient department of Alidhem
If you live in Alidhem and you feel sick, this is the place where you have to go. It is closer than the university hospital since it is only 50 m north from Alidhem centrum. If you go to the hospital probably you won’t be accepted and you will have to come...
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Sushi in my corridor!
One of the better things of living in Umea as an international student, and most if you live in Alidhem, is that it seems like you are living in a really big residence. Although you have to cook your dinner (like in all the residence outside Spain) and have your own...
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Mr. Snowplough
One of the most important jobs in this region of the world is the snowplough. Without them the life will be paralyzed under meters and meters of snow. Only with one night snowing, the snow can reach your knee the next morning. So imagine almost 5 months snowing! So in...
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The short fall
The year in Umea passes through a long cold and dark winter and a long warm and light summer. But it seems like the other seasons don’t exist compared with Spain. Actually, in this part of the world there are also autumn and spring. But their conditions are so strange...
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The fall in the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014
The activities during the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014 follow a scheduled program. It is based on the Sami calendar which divides the year in 8 seasons according to the nature cycles. Fall is an important period of the year for Swedish and Samis. It is...
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The summer in the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014
The activities during the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014 follow a scheduled program. It is based on the Sami calendar which divides the year in 8 seasons according to the nature cycles. Summer is the period most waited in Sweden. The light, the sun and...
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The spring in the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014
The activities during the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014 follow a scheduled program. It is based on the Sami calendar which divides the year in 8 seasons according to the nature cycles. Spring is a very important period. In this time your mood changes...
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The winter in the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014
The winter is divided in the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014, following the Sami calendar in 2 periods: from December to March and from then to April. The first period, December – March, is named as the Winter [Dálvvie]. This period of the year is going...
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The 8 seasons of the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014
The activities during the European Capital of Culture year of Umea 2014 follow a scheduled program. The character of the activities depends on the time of the year, of course. They are different depending on the season of the year, since they affect us in or way of...
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the Credo 2014
One of the activities that is included in the schedule program of the Glass House 2014 is the Credo 2014 Project. It takes place ach day at noon inside this house. It consist of the presentation in short speech of different people from the city, old or young, famouns or...
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the Glass House 2014
One of the symbols of Umea as the European Capital of Culture 2014 is the Glass House 2014. It is located in the City Hall Square, in the centre of Umea downtown, just at the site of the statue of the Standing Man. This building is a cube that measures 5. 5m per side...
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Meeting Light
Another light installation of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn was located at the river bank, using the trees in the southern part, in Varvsgatan. It was named “Meeting Light” and designed by True Ahrens and Therese Sundqvist. South bank of the river...
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Unrequited love
A light installation of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn is located at the river bank, using the trees of the south of the Station Café. The art work is named Unrequited love and was made by the artist Sofie Weibull. It was built with plexiglass and...
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Dancefloor in the park
Other funny installation of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn is called Ballroom, and it was placed in the Rådhusparken park. The dance floor is a natural place for budding love. Therefore the artists of the installation wanted to invite you to dance in...
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Booty Call
Among the light installations of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn, one of them was very curious and, at the same time, very funny. It was placed in Kungsgatan, the main commercial street of Umea. The art work, called “Booty Call”, was a humorous...
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Love-play
Among the light installations of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn one of them covered an entire square with a play-garden, named “Kär-lek”, or “Love-play”. It was placed in the Renmarkstorget, the square in front of the Tourist office. It...
