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I have just two more photos from my 2003 central european / baltic tour. The sparsity of pictures is due in part to the limitations of the memory card on my camera, but also because, I guess, taking pictures wasn't the object of my trip.

From Stockholm I took the train up to Uppsala and stayed with my friend Erik, then flew on SAS up to Luleå to visit Nils. Together we took a little roadtrip up to Jokkmokk, up right above the arctic circle. It was already snowing.

I spent a whole week down in Lund, visiting my old friends and favorite places around the University. We even went sailing at Kivik.

My entry from this time is called "direkt from lundagå: a long walk to sweden." it's one of my favorites. http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot/111700.html

Lund is almost like I never left, and maybe that's the hard part, since I have to leave all over again. I'm listed in the phone book. My account still works on the library computers. My old friends till live together, but now they've moved from the korridor to the most beautiful apartment you can imagine, direct in the city center. The Nation schedules are pretty much the same, still good dinner, dessert, liveband at Kalmar Nation on Tuesdays. Don't be late. The Scandinavian plane -- a silver-white seven-thirty-seven with a solid blue tail and red engines on which was served smoked salmon, potatoes in dill sauce, wholegrain bread, and of course coffee -- touched down at Sturup, waking me as I had drifted off to sleep, my head against the window, on the fifty minute flight from Stockholm. It was misty and grey at Sturup, a drizzly twilight, but that was OK. I rode the bus into Lund and through the fading light there was still the heavy traffic of bicycles on cobblestones with dynamo-driven headlights bright. This is the only place in the world I know of where you can buy saffron ice cream (from glasskulturen on stortorget), and it still tastes just as good -- I recommend it with a scoop of mango gellato too. But of course there is a difference — I catch myself thinking to call Anna or Christina to go to dinner somewhere.. but they are long gone from here.

Here's a view of the old cathedral at Lund, viewed over rooftops from my friends' apartment. (this is the cathedral in ingmar bergman's Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050986/)

Finally, a complete map of this trip, where blue represents overland journeys and yellow lines are trips by airplane:

i hope, at least, a result of this series of photo posts is that you're able to identify a few more countries on the map and know a few small things about them. it was quite a trip; it would be impossible for me to convey the emotional content of it, especially in retrospect, but i hope you have enjoyed the pictures.

Would anyone be interested in me posting the pictures from my trip to israel, jordan, and egypt? comment if so.

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friends only! :/