Aujourd'hui : on est allé voir des banques pour nous ouvrir des comptes , mais aucune n'est d'accord , tant qu'on a pas un numéro d'identité suédois... Il va donc falloir que j'aille vite m'enregistrer au bureau d'immigration à Norrköping , à 20km d'ici ... enfin je crois que c'est là bas... Ils veulent s'assurer qu'on reste bien au minimum un an ... pfff , c'est d'un compliqué !
Dépités, on s'est ensuite rendu à Tornby, la zone industrielle de la ville , avec plein de grand magasins et centre commerciaux (ouf sauvée , j'ai repéré un MEXX !!! ben oui car pour l'instant tout ce que je vois c'est des magasins de sport ou des magasins plutôt classiques...enfin bon, j'ai pas vraiment fait le tour non plus...). On a donc passé 4 heures au moins chez Ikéa ! on a acheté les meubles principaux qu'il nous faut, plus plein de babioles comme des casseroles , des draps, des serviettes éponges, etc...Dur dur quand il faut tout acheter de A à Z !!
mardi 31 juillet 2007
IKEA
As Chris said we got our flat and today we are gonna furnish it. However We read on internet they deliver in 2 weeks and we have to figure it out what are we going to do in 2 weeks. I will try to negotiate it to make them deliver as soon as possible. We will seeif they do it! And Slyvie thanks for your supportive comments. I will take your pictures with 3 pullovers on when you visit us :-) on November. By the way yesterday was all sunny and hot. And swedish people says its not so normal last couple of days for summer. So hope it gets better in August. Bye for now.
lundi 30 juillet 2007
Troisième jour in Sweden
Yesterday, everything was closed , weekend seems to be quite calm here , nobody on the streets , only a few shops and cafes opened in the afternoon ... So we went for a walk , first to Natur centrum park , then along Kinda Kanal , which is a really lovely place .
Here are a few pictures :
Park :
Kinda Kanal :
Nice place to have a walk on weekend , lots of people are running or biking...
As a big fan of house/architecture , i found lots of really nice houses along the Kanal ... but I guess those are very expensive !
On the evening we went to a Swedish restaurant ! The food was great , we might come back often there ! Murat took a Ren dish , me, a fish plate , delicious ! :-)
Today , we went to University by bus , we realised that it's quite close to the city center , around 10mn by bus . The University is brand new , we met a guy in the bus , a PHD Student, who helped us a lot . Who said Swedish are cold ??? Until now , everybody is so kind with us , so helpful , even bus drivers help ,and they speak english too !
So we first went to the office for international students , the girls explained to us a few things about flat researches , she even gave us 2 mobile phone cards with 25 sek credit on each !
We first check this new student building called " Colonia" on the campus, unfortunately , there was no reception office , we had to check availabilty on internet... Plus we had been told that those apartemnt were quite expensive , more than 6000 SEK for a 2 rooms flat , which is over our budget. Then we walked to Ryd district , i didnt like that place... but we went to the Studentbostäder office there , to see is there were more flats available for 1st of August . We visited one in Ryd, a really crappy one ! Then the girl told us there was another one available closer to city center , so she gave us the keys and we went to visit it . It's on a student building too , but really close to city center. We've decided to take it since we didnt had so many options left ! The flat is ok, 43 m², very clear , 2 rooms, lots of wardrobs , fully furnished kitchen, for only 5077 Sek , just the perfect budget ! Plus the good thing is that electricity , and water are included and we even have a discount for the internet connexion since Murat is a student , and June and July are free !
So that's great ! We have our flat on wednesday !
Tomorrow , we need to go to a bank to open a bank account , and pay our rent for August , ah yeah i forgot to add that we dont have any deposit to pay !!! isnt it great ? ;-)
Then we need to go to Ikea , to see what we're going to buy to furnish our new flat ! :-)
Petit résumé des 2 derniers jours :
Dimanche : promenade dans un parc , très sympa , il y a beaucoup de parcs ici , donc ceux qui aiment la nuture et les promenades sont bien servis :-)
Ensuite on s'est balladé le long d'un long canal , super joli également , avec des maisons très sympa tout le long du canal qui entoure presque toute la ville . on n'est pas allé jusqu'au bout , mais ce sera à faire prochainement , dès qu'on aura acheté nos vélos ! Eh oui , ici , tout le monde roule à vélo , il y a même des bornes en villes avec des pompes electriques pour gonfler les pneus ! J'ai jamais vu ça ailleurs ! Et aujourd'hui je me suis rendu compte que les vélos ont même leurs propres feux de signalisation , des petit feux comme pour les voitures , mais tout petit , c'est assez nouveau pour nous ! Il va donc falloir aprendre à respecter tout ça ! ;-)
Aujourd'hui on est allé à la fac, objectif du jour : trouver un appart pour mercredi ! ( 1er août )
Après en avoir visité un très pourri dans un quartier que j'aimais pas du tout , on a signé pour le 2ème visité , qui se trouve pas loin du centre ville , entre le campus et le centre ville en fait , donc situation parfaire pour nous ! Pile poil dans notre budget , 2 pièces dans une résidence étudiante , electricité et eau comprises , cuisine totalement équipée avec Frigo , congel, micro-onde, four, plein de placards dans la chambre, réduction pour internet , 2 mois de loyer gratuits en été , et aucune caution à donner !!!
Voilà , demain : direction Ikea pour une journée repérage ,voire commande de meubles !!! Youpii !!
Here are a few pictures :
Park :
Kinda Kanal :
Nice place to have a walk on weekend , lots of people are running or biking...
As a big fan of house/architecture , i found lots of really nice houses along the Kanal ... but I guess those are very expensive !
On the evening we went to a Swedish restaurant ! The food was great , we might come back often there ! Murat took a Ren dish , me, a fish plate , delicious ! :-)
Today , we went to University by bus , we realised that it's quite close to the city center , around 10mn by bus . The University is brand new , we met a guy in the bus , a PHD Student, who helped us a lot . Who said Swedish are cold ??? Until now , everybody is so kind with us , so helpful , even bus drivers help ,and they speak english too !
So we first went to the office for international students , the girls explained to us a few things about flat researches , she even gave us 2 mobile phone cards with 25 sek credit on each !
We first check this new student building called " Colonia" on the campus, unfortunately , there was no reception office , we had to check availabilty on internet... Plus we had been told that those apartemnt were quite expensive , more than 6000 SEK for a 2 rooms flat , which is over our budget. Then we walked to Ryd district , i didnt like that place... but we went to the Studentbostäder office there , to see is there were more flats available for 1st of August . We visited one in Ryd, a really crappy one ! Then the girl told us there was another one available closer to city center , so she gave us the keys and we went to visit it . It's on a student building too , but really close to city center. We've decided to take it since we didnt had so many options left ! The flat is ok, 43 m², very clear , 2 rooms, lots of wardrobs , fully furnished kitchen, for only 5077 Sek , just the perfect budget ! Plus the good thing is that electricity , and water are included and we even have a discount for the internet connexion since Murat is a student , and June and July are free !
So that's great ! We have our flat on wednesday !
Tomorrow , we need to go to a bank to open a bank account , and pay our rent for August , ah yeah i forgot to add that we dont have any deposit to pay !!! isnt it great ? ;-)
Then we need to go to Ikea , to see what we're going to buy to furnish our new flat ! :-)
Petit résumé des 2 derniers jours :
Dimanche : promenade dans un parc , très sympa , il y a beaucoup de parcs ici , donc ceux qui aiment la nuture et les promenades sont bien servis :-)
Ensuite on s'est balladé le long d'un long canal , super joli également , avec des maisons très sympa tout le long du canal qui entoure presque toute la ville . on n'est pas allé jusqu'au bout , mais ce sera à faire prochainement , dès qu'on aura acheté nos vélos ! Eh oui , ici , tout le monde roule à vélo , il y a même des bornes en villes avec des pompes electriques pour gonfler les pneus ! J'ai jamais vu ça ailleurs ! Et aujourd'hui je me suis rendu compte que les vélos ont même leurs propres feux de signalisation , des petit feux comme pour les voitures , mais tout petit , c'est assez nouveau pour nous ! Il va donc falloir aprendre à respecter tout ça ! ;-)
Aujourd'hui on est allé à la fac, objectif du jour : trouver un appart pour mercredi ! ( 1er août )
Après en avoir visité un très pourri dans un quartier que j'aimais pas du tout , on a signé pour le 2ème visité , qui se trouve pas loin du centre ville , entre le campus et le centre ville en fait , donc situation parfaire pour nous ! Pile poil dans notre budget , 2 pièces dans une résidence étudiante , electricité et eau comprises , cuisine totalement équipée avec Frigo , congel, micro-onde, four, plein de placards dans la chambre, réduction pour internet , 2 mois de loyer gratuits en été , et aucune caution à donner !!!
Voilà , demain : direction Ikea pour une journée repérage ,voire commande de meubles !!! Youpii !!
samedi 28 juillet 2007
17 Degreesss!!!!
Hello All from Sweden!! It is Murat ! It is 17 degrees outside on July and I came here from 40 degrees so My body is trying to adopt the Swedish summer! I am wearing my pull overs already. Other than that The city is nice, small but cute so far. And everyone speaks fluent English. We didnt have any problems so far to communicate. We hope to rent a flat soon otherwise we will spend all our money on hotel rooms... That is it for now chris writes everything anyway not much for me to write other than hers. selam to turks and bisous aux francais.
Arrival in Sweden !
Hello we are in Linköping now , in the "damn freezing country" ;-) Indeed the weather is cold compared to France , and even worse compared to Turkey , Murat is already frozen :-) No more shorts and teeshirt ;-)
Ok ... lets talk about my usual bad luck !
At first , in Lyon, I went to Air France office to pay the franchise for the luggage excess that i had booked the day before by phone with the company, the guy told me nothing was booked ! So i had to pay nearly 100eur more than what i had been told on the phone ! I explained to this guy that it was a mistake and so on, the best he could offer me was 2 free kilos ... great great ... So i finally paid 264euros (for 22kgs) instead of 210 ( for 25 kgs) , but i'm going to write to Air France to be paid back !
But the worse came after ...
I finally arrived in Stockholm at 4.30pm , Murat was waiting for me since 1pm ... I waited , waited, so loong for my luggage with a couple of other people , to finally realise that this bloody company lost my luggage !!!! Yeah , both of my luggage !!! So i had to wait one hour to the luggage information office... I knew Murat was waiting for me , but no way to tell him i was blocked to this office ... He had cut his cell phone in Turkey ... So i finally went out , luckily Murat was still waiting for me but was on his way to go to the hotel...
Here i arrived in sweden with only my laptop bag ... my luggage stayed in Amsterdam ...
Now i'm still waiting for it ! They are supposed to bring it to this hotel in Linköping... I hope it will arrive soon !
We didnt have the time to visit Stockholm, when we arrived it was raining a lot ... The hotel in Stockholm was really great ! i'll add some pictures of it later on !
We arrived in Linköping in the beginning of the afternoon , we went out for a walk ... the city isn't big so it's easy to walk around without getting lost ! Our hostel is nice too , we have an appartment flat with a bedroom , a living room and a kitchen and most important : free internet !!! ;-)
That's it for now , i'll tell you more later on !
Sorry for you french friends , but i'm too lazy to write it in French again ! ;-)
Ok ... lets talk about my usual bad luck !
At first , in Lyon, I went to Air France office to pay the franchise for the luggage excess that i had booked the day before by phone with the company, the guy told me nothing was booked ! So i had to pay nearly 100eur more than what i had been told on the phone ! I explained to this guy that it was a mistake and so on, the best he could offer me was 2 free kilos ... great great ... So i finally paid 264euros (for 22kgs) instead of 210 ( for 25 kgs) , but i'm going to write to Air France to be paid back !
But the worse came after ...
I finally arrived in Stockholm at 4.30pm , Murat was waiting for me since 1pm ... I waited , waited, so loong for my luggage with a couple of other people , to finally realise that this bloody company lost my luggage !!!! Yeah , both of my luggage !!! So i had to wait one hour to the luggage information office... I knew Murat was waiting for me , but no way to tell him i was blocked to this office ... He had cut his cell phone in Turkey ... So i finally went out , luckily Murat was still waiting for me but was on his way to go to the hotel...
Here i arrived in sweden with only my laptop bag ... my luggage stayed in Amsterdam ...
Now i'm still waiting for it ! They are supposed to bring it to this hotel in Linköping... I hope it will arrive soon !
We didnt have the time to visit Stockholm, when we arrived it was raining a lot ... The hotel in Stockholm was really great ! i'll add some pictures of it later on !
We arrived in Linköping in the beginning of the afternoon , we went out for a walk ... the city isn't big so it's easy to walk around without getting lost ! Our hostel is nice too , we have an appartment flat with a bedroom , a living room and a kitchen and most important : free internet !!! ;-)
That's it for now , i'll tell you more later on !
Sorry for you french friends , but i'm too lazy to write it in French again ! ;-)
mercredi 25 juillet 2007
Preparation
J- 1 :
Les valises sont presques bouclées plus qu'un ou deux petits trucs de dernière minute à rajouter ... Autant vous dire que les 20 kilos autorisés sont LARGEMENT dépassés !
Bon ok ... j'ai pas besoin de ma boite à bijoux qui pèse bien un kilo ,ni de mes 3 vestes d'hiver ... Mais bon , il faut bien que je témoigne de la "classe" française , et que je me fasse envier des belles blondes suédoises ....chacun son truc... ;-)
Tout ca pour dire , que je vais partir avec environ 45 kilos de bagages ! eh ben oui ... c'est possible !!! Vive les franchises pour excédent de bagage !!! (ca va me coûter cher mais , toujours moins cher qu'un autre aller retour , quoique ... , bref , c'est pas grave !! )
Voilà , c'était juste un petit mot histoire de commencer ce nouveau blog !
La version anglaise arrive !
Here i am ! One day left before the big Day !
My 45 kilos luggage is packed ! I really hope we will find some trolleys in Pinguin City ! ( eheh just kidding , we first land in Stockholm then final destination is LINKOPING , but who knows what we will find there , may be lots of Pinguin families biking to Ikea while eating Krissprolls !)
Ok my dear friends , this was just an introduction to my new blog !
Hope you will enjoy reading it ! Don't hesitate adding your comments , even the bad ones are accepted , so just go ahead !!!
Bisous à tout le monde, kiss to everybody , and ... Puss (in swedish !)
See you soon , à bientôt pour plus de nouvelles !
Aventure, aventure !!!
Les valises sont presques bouclées plus qu'un ou deux petits trucs de dernière minute à rajouter ... Autant vous dire que les 20 kilos autorisés sont LARGEMENT dépassés !
Bon ok ... j'ai pas besoin de ma boite à bijoux qui pèse bien un kilo ,ni de mes 3 vestes d'hiver ... Mais bon , il faut bien que je témoigne de la "classe" française , et que je me fasse envier des belles blondes suédoises ....chacun son truc... ;-)
Tout ca pour dire , que je vais partir avec environ 45 kilos de bagages ! eh ben oui ... c'est possible !!! Vive les franchises pour excédent de bagage !!! (ca va me coûter cher mais , toujours moins cher qu'un autre aller retour , quoique ... , bref , c'est pas grave !! )
Voilà , c'était juste un petit mot histoire de commencer ce nouveau blog !
La version anglaise arrive !
Here i am ! One day left before the big Day !
My 45 kilos luggage is packed ! I really hope we will find some trolleys in Pinguin City ! ( eheh just kidding , we first land in Stockholm then final destination is LINKOPING , but who knows what we will find there , may be lots of Pinguin families biking to Ikea while eating Krissprolls !)
Ok my dear friends , this was just an introduction to my new blog !
Hope you will enjoy reading it ! Don't hesitate adding your comments , even the bad ones are accepted , so just go ahead !!!
Bisous à tout le monde, kiss to everybody , and ... Puss (in swedish !)
See you soon , à bientôt pour plus de nouvelles !
Aventure, aventure !!!
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