Day 67

I can’t believe it’s here – my last day.

In celebration of my pending departure, Landskrona served up a brilliant spring day.  Sunny, blue skies, no wind, about 12 degrees.  Perfect.

Spent the day at work finalising some things that I’d been working on, writing some final emails and generally taking it a bit easy.  Took the time to get some photos of the office and some of the people I’ve been working with.  Said goodbye to the nice girls on reception who have helped me translate the lunch menu each day. 

My Milo I left with Jens, since he remembered it from his time in Darwin back when he was eighteen years old.  What remained of my Bushell’s Australian Breakfast tea I left with Jan, the only other tea drinker in the office. 

It was reassuring that lunch was just as much of a guessing game on my last day as it was on my first.  Roast potatoes with gravy and some kind of sliced ham – not too bad.  In the afternoon Johan organised a surprise fika or, as he put it in the email – “one last fika for the Ozzie dude ;)”.  We had ice cream with chocolate topping with our coffee (or hot chocolate in my case). 

He’d also arranged a parting gift for me – a box full of traditional Swedish foods to take home with me.  It included their famous Kalles Kaviar (in a squeeze tube of course), a can of Sill (or herring), some Swedish pâté, a kind of vanilla butter, and some hard breads to eat it all on.  In return I gave him my precious tube of Vegemite with careful instructions on how it should be eaten (less is more, don’t put too much on!).

Anders also organised a couple of Besam t-shirts, a Besam branded belt (by Gant), and a copy of a Besam cook book produced a few years ago with recipes from different countries around the world.  I don’t know how I’m possibly going to fit it all in my already full suitcase but I’m sure going to try.

This will be my last post from Sweden – the next time I write will be from the comfort of my couch back in Australia.  I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it as much as I’ve enjoyed living it.

Hej då för nu och vi ses snart!