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Hello!

First of all, I heard that there were some problems about posting a message, not everybody was able to do it. That has been changed, so all of you can start commenting from now on!

We've found an apartment!!! We've been looking for an apartment somewhere from april and onwards, since Lianne is coming over then as well. It's not that easy to find something in the largest city of Sweden. Much demand but only few apartments available. As soon as you see an advertisement you should call immediately, and preferentially 2 hours earlier, or it will be gone already. But..... now we have one!! It's a perfect location for us, it's close to shops and supermarkets, it's close to nature with a large lake, and not less important: it's only 3 kilometers from the Karolinska!! Absolutely perfect. The apartment has a nice Swedish appearance: the Swedes are crazy about creating space in small spaces. In every place where it is possible, they create a closet or a cupboard, or any other space where you can store all of your stuff. I will move in already mid-march, and then Lianne will come over together with "den Hollander moving and co" with all our stuff (I would just like to say: thank you already!!!).

Then finally something that I would like to put down regularly: Sweden trivia! What defines the Swedish people and what is so typical about Swedish culture. Today: recycling! Swedish people are recycling maniacs. At the lab alone, there is a special box for tin foil, plastic, paper, tin cans, and then everything that does not fit the rest. Another nice example is to be found at the pendeltågstations (kind of subways). Here there are many people giving out the small newspapers, like Metro, Punkt SE, Stockholm city, etc. Very nice of course. And what you then get, is that many of these papers end up in the regular wastebin at these stations. That's of course unexceptable!! So what do you do then? Simple enough! Just hire someone to get all these papers from the regular bin, so they can be put together where they belong: in the paper bin... Logical huh?
I must say, in defence of the country where we will be living for quite some time: at some stations they also have a standard paper-bin expecially for these papers, which brings me to another trivia that applies to many Swedes: they can be very practical! But that's maybe something for next time. Until then ...
Cya!
jeroen