I'm not even sure it registered when I first came to look at the apartment - that the name of the street was the same as the fabled hall of heroes … ok I'm lying, I saw it the second I stepped off the subway and I thought it was pretty awesome!
Yep, this time my new home is on 'Valhallavägen' (translated it becomes, literally, 'Valhalla Way'). The building itself is a wonderful old-timer in Karlaplan, a relatively well-to-do part of Stockholm (despite this the room is in fact very cheap, a stroke of pure luck which I'll get to later), and I've wasted no time making it a comfortable little safehaven away from the freezing drifts that have been attacking the city of late. Indeed, as I write this, snowflakes the size of your thumbnail are floating past the window, and we all know what happens in Stockholm when it snows … the same thing that happens in every other city. The snow has to be cleared. Things slow down. I sigh in defeat because the hairstyle I've been working on for the last fifteen minutes now has to be hidden under a beanie. The usual.
Either way, I won't update you on the last couple of weeks in this entry, I'll do that later. This is just a little message from Jim saying 'Hej!' to everyone out there, from here in Karlaplan, Stockholm.
Jimzip
3 thoughts are now mine:
Hej!
Snowflakes the size of my thumbnails, eh? Sounds like Valhall can't escape Fimbulvetr (Fimbulvinter), which preceds Ragnarök (the final destiny of gods)... At least a true hero dies in a fierce battle!
Hahah. Yeah, I'm not up for that whole 'dying' thing just yet. I'm just happy to crash their banquet. ;)
Jimzip :D
That's so awesome! Didn't realize you were moving there so soon. Send some snow my way! I'm tired of being so freakin' hot all the time.
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