A Swedish gal back at home

Posted by: fracas on January 31 @ 6:07 pm

Yet another busy Saturday has passed. First into town for a quick lunch and coffee before heading for IKEA. I absolutely love IKEA. It’s almost like being home again i.e. back in Sweden. Even certain furniture brings back memories such as the Billy book case. Those were the days back in the 80’s, my girls room being completely made up out of IKEA furniture. We walked around, with the aim of getting a chest of drawers that could double as a changing table to be placed in our bathroom. Luckily we have a rather spacious bathroom with an empty wall, where it will stand.

The thing with IKEA is that you go there for one or two things and you come out with about 20 other items. It’s always the same, and today was no different. We stocked up on pots and pans, towels, lamps for the study (at least we got rid of the old ones), trays, cutlery, and of course the obligatory candles. In addition, I went completely wild in the IKEA food department stocking up on meatballs, pyttipanna, Kalles Kaviar, lingonberry and cloudberry jam, cinnamon buns and Swedish candy. Delicious! 700 euros lighter we left, relieved to be out of there. So long IKEA! Until next year…