Where am I? Perhaps you have not realized that I really like this place that I feel my. The others are out now, to -18 degrees, who play in the snow, some to ski (the husband), who jogging (the older son) but I can not do more with the cold and all the clothes from wear. When I leave I feel so:
I do not feel at home here, but maybe I do not feel at home anywhere. This town where I lived until 18 years has about 20 000 inhabitants, in the "center" around 8000 and the rest in the suburbs. Here almost all of them are relatives and if you're not part of a family that has lived here for at least four generations do not accept at all. My parents are from a town about 100 km from here and then I'm only the second generation. Then I broke
the law of Jante , unwittingly, being good at a sport, so that almost every weekend there was some article about me in the local newspaper.
seems perhaps a terrible place, but it is not so! I have never really done any harm, but it's just that I never could find a place in this society here. I was probably a bit 'too different to be accepted. In my opinion, seen through the eyes of adult I was very shy and the other, and we both misinterpreted. Instead, I discovered that the people of this place is very curious, especially when it comes to foreigners. They have always shown a great desire to understand and be with my husband. Maybe I was too close to them and at the same time a little 'too far? Or maybe my husband is just nicer than me =).
This place was named for the first time in 1482. In 1600 there was a type of copper mine and in 1700 the shipbuilding was important to the economy of the place. In 1800 there was a development of the city thanks to the 'immigration of merchants and craftsmen. 1808-1809 was the Sweden-Russia war that had great consequences negative for the post. Even today there are traces of the war as
ryssgraven , "a cemetery" soldiers with Swedish, Finnish and Russian. The medieval church was used as stables for horses Russians during the war.
The name of this city is probably from the Latin word for chalice and the symbol of the city is a glass:
is up to Botnico Sea coast about 50 kilometers from the border with Finland. There is a beautiful archipelago one of the largest and most beautiful rivers in Sweden. The river goes to Kebnekaise in the north and after the war between Sweden and Russia, 1808-1809, was to act as a border between Sweden and Finland, but in the end it was decided to move the Torne älv border, about 50 miles to the east .
There are many other things to appoint, such
the löjrom , fishing or Kamlungeforsen. Those interested can find more tourist information
here.
The climate is the main reason why I am here. It's always sunny in summer, almost 24 out of 24, but the summer lasts only a few months. The ice on the river melts in May and at times there was still snow on the last day of school in June. It can snow as early as September. The winter is long, cold and oxen.
What is there to do in a climate like this? He goes fishing in both summer and winter, you go with the scooter (the snow, I do not know what it's called in Italian) in winter and bike in summer. Trips into the woods, skiing, hiking, biking. All nice, but if there's more ... You drink a lot.
Now I just wrote a lot. Tomorrow I'll explain why I am grateful to be raised in a place like that despite all my complaints. =) Sorry
Italian. I do not have the patience to correct it.