The following days - sick snowboarding

The days after Christmas we went to Linz to visit my parents but unfortunately I caught some stupid flu and we had to give up the plan to go skiing to Carinthia. Instead i was sweating in bed.

At least Lovisa could take a train to the alps and go snowboarding. How jealous I was...

"Weihnachten" in Austria

This year Lovisa and I celebrated Christmas in Austria together with my brother's family which was really nice!

There were even Christmas tree balls with my face on it. That was very nice ;-)

Later in the evening I got the feeling Lovisa had a bit too much alcohol (just joking)...

(click at the picture to see her eyes)

Elektroniskt julbord

The day after Lucia we went to another Christmas evening. Just the music was a little bit faster and louder maybe. Elektroniskt julbord at Sticky fingers

The highlight was Thermostatic! Especially the two "sound engineers" were very funny to look at...

and of course Universal Poplab the stars of the evening (I preferred Thermostatic though)

Back to Sweden into Lucia day

Finally back from the Italian churches right into a Swedish church to watch a Lucia-firande (concert). A really nice tradition! The Christmas songs are really completely different to those that we have. I recognized only two...

That's Lucia who brings light into the dark time of the year

The guys are called Staffan Stalledräng. I think they are there to make it more funny with their hats ;-)

Nice to be in a church that's not full of devils like the churches in Florence are

Culture day in Florence

One day before the last I went to see all the tourist spots (except the Uffici, didn't make it)

The Baptisterio, it is the oldest building in Florence (first it was a Roman temple, so really old) and until not so long everybody in Florence was baptized in there.

Again a lot of devils in the church.

Next I went to see the Coppola of the Duomo. Some wild creatures live up there

 (the huge dome of the cathedral). There you got a really nice view over the city

And you are very close to hell...

Last stop was the church Santa Croce where the graves of many famous people are.

Michelangelo

Galileo

Dante

and Rossini

Sights of Florence

Today I managed to get some nice pictures again...

of course Michelangelo's famous David

Hercules killing the Zentaur Nessus

Perseus with the head of the Medusa

A nice fountain at the corner of two streets

Ponte Vecchio that is full of Jewelry shops