About that last one...

Some of you know I am not even IN Sweden right now. "How is he watching Swedish TV then?" I´m NOT. I wrote a few ahead so I would have some spares. Keep an eye out for some photo essays...

I am writing to you now from sunny Barcelona. All I can say is, while it is cold here (40s-50s), it is WAY warmer than Stockholm, which clocked in at a cool 16 degrees with accompanying snow and darkness when I left. (Carrying my rollie-bag through the one-can´t-roll-a-rollie-bag-through-this snow the entire ten minute walk to the train station at 6:30 on a Saturday morning was NOT amusing. [I may or may not publish a blog entry solely on spelling "rollie"...])

I flew to London for the weekend to visit my dear friends Kevin & Jay. We walked around balmy London, did cultural things like visit the National Gallery and even saw the American disaster movie entitled, "Match Point." OH, I think I left out a word or two. The sentence should have read "disaster OF A movie." Ugh. SO don´t bother.

I jetted off to Barcelona for the week to investigate English-teaching opportunities and just because I like the city. It is even balmier here than London, but still cool, and as mentioned before: WHO CARES? Been doing the art thing and as my schedule is panning out, it looks like it will be a major visual art week. Went to the Picasso Museum yesterday, the Museum of Contemporary Art today. Will go to some galleries tomorrow and then Friday to the Joan Miró foundation and the National Museum of Catalunya where there is a large Cubism exhibit.

I have been staying with some relatives I reconnected with recently. My dad's brother's wife's father's sister's son's ex-wife, Ana, and her daughter, Eva. Seriously. They had an extra room and it has been so lovely spending time with them. Ana's generosity is astounding, as I have not seen her for probably twenty years! Eva and I hit it off and it has been nice catching up on roughly a million years or so.

I return to London for the weekend and then head back to Stockholm, where I promise to squeeze some more culture out of the city. I will post photos from this little jaunt in southern Europe when I get back next week. Just wanted to check in.