Leeuwarden, Holland

I made it here too! You have no idea how awesome it was to step of the train and find my best friend standing there waiting! How I've missed that crazy hair and those eyes! Weeeeeii! And that voice! I can just listen for hours to all his stories :) My whole stay here I've been in my little happy bubble. First Milana and now Tobias, before I'm going back to see my family in Sweden. These weeks are just amazing!

I am currently sitting in Tobias room, waiting for him to come home from school. He had a meeting to go to, so after checking out his college, I explored Leeuwarden and did some shopping!

His college was really nice and a little fancy. At a first look the outside didn't appeal to much, I was a little bit skeptic to that this would be something special. But I was soon proved to be wrong! never judge the outside, right? They had everything in there, even a hotel, and the design was just awesome! For the first time I was walking around at a college really caring about what I was seeing, interested, wanting to know more and see more. It's a really nice school people!
The only other college I've been to that gave me that feeling was LSU, where Corey took me a couple of weeks ago. Their campus was amazing, unfortunately I hardly got to see the inside since it was closed. What I did see of the inside tho, was really cool, new and modern, just like here. I'd like to check that school out more at some point. Their campus still gave me the #1 feeling, tho Leeuwarden is really close behind.

I love the street markets! I went here
7 am at the after party to get some
straw berries for a snack :)
Also, look at the building and all the bikes!

Now to the city, I walked around for a couple of hours and you just gotta love this place! It's amazingly pretty and beautiful and it got so much character!
The streets are small with no pavement, instead they use different types of bricks. Now, you'd think that kind of suck to bike and walk on, but I've used my heels all over and I never saw anyone falling of the bike! It's great!

Tobias also took me to a block where the streets are covered in graffiti. It was pretty cool to walk around in the small alleys in between the houses and just look at all the art, some artists are pretty darn good!

Walking around just house watching is a nice activity itself. All the houses look different from each other with their own personal architecture and style.
The city also got hundreds of bridges big, small and tiny which adds up the fairytale cosy factor with 110%. There's even houses on the river- here people also live in houseboats!

Tobias house is pretty old but really nice! It got steep stairs, and it's high up to the ceiling. The architecture on the inside is also pretty old fashion with details in the ceilings, light colored walls and built in window benches and fireplaces (not longer in use). He shares this place with two other really cool German guys; Hannes and Konrad. I find it so funny to randomly walk in to three guys everyday life! I get to see them grocery shopping, cook, bake, clean, make the dishes and do the laundry! And we aren't talking easy food as hamburgers and mac n cheese, we are talking healty food! Vegetables and fruits! Pastas with different meats, sauces and spices, wooked meat and vegetables with rice and so on. What guys! Maybe I should stick around a little longer...? It really suck to just have a week with your best friend when you've hardly seen him in 2½ years..

Baking some brownies with the guys

Last but not least; the nightlife is pretty awesome too!! There's plenty of bars, cafés and coffee shops and they all play really good music. Everything from main stream radio to techno to reggae. It's just to pick your place and enjoy. I got to see my first official joint menu too. They all had such interesting names! Some were named after Disney characters, and only to read their names in dutch was a trip..!

Now Tobias is back and it's time to make some late lunch, but I will Hoi at you all later!