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As usually when I come back to Sweden. I get sick. So the last week pretty much, I've been spending in bed. Terribly restless. Terribly bored. So bored I've actually been doing two puzzles (1000 pieces each). That will make you understand.

The moment I got back from Paris, I cought up with my old housemate Luke from oz at the T-central in Stockholmo. Happy reunion! Luke and his mate Matt are travelling around the world pretty much and had a quick stop in Sweden. Tried my best to show them all the essential things such as old town, Djurgården, Cosmonova etc. Its hard to be a tourist in Stockholm if you are a student or for some reason is not made of money. Everything costs! Grrr...

So, some picture updates. This is pretty much everything I could fit on my 4 days in Paris, riding a bike through the city. It's Molin Rouge, The Louvre, Mona Lisa, Notre dame, Eifel tower, Modern art museum etc etc. Beautiful city. AND, catching up with three friends made the sray a lot better as well=)

So. Dad and I have survived our Wales trip. We are now sitting in Liverpool waiting for our flights. Mine goes first. A few more hrs and I will land in PARIS! Dad will fly home to Stockholm. Been at John Lennons pub and admired the current Beatles week for a while. Very good.

Started early today and were meant to do a pretty easy hike. But since it's Wales and since the sun was shining, we decided to hike up Wales's highest Mountain, Snowdon Mt.

So yet another childhood dream has been experienced and is now reaching its end. I've had an amazing time at the farm.

The lake crossing today went on without major problems. We all stayed on the sadle but got soaked anyway in the canter ofcourse. Nicola and Morgen were standing at the shore with my camera so finally I got some pics. Me on Paddy in the front, then a German lady on Guiness, a lovely Japaneese lady on Sarsfield, a French on Toibin and another German on Whiskey. Alone with no back guide this week. Pretty big trust level I must say for a girl without orientation sense, haha! Anyway, enjoy the pics of my last group:

So. Just realized I haven't been writing for a while. Last week was good. We had a few incidents and I had the most annoying American lady in my group. Unfortunately she had a very fast horse as well, which meant she was always riding behind me as I was the leader of the group. And she kept going on about herself, her boyfriend, her ex husbands three ex viwes and their new husbands etc etc etc. I wish I could bring my ipod or earplugs on the trail sometimes. I also wished for myself that her horse would occasionally pretend to be lame so she would get a new, much much slower horse. Nothing of this could happen ofcourse. On Sunday lunch. I never thought the week was going to end. But eventually. It did.

GARDAÍ have described the seizure of €40,000 worth of cannabis plants at a woodland area in Whitegate as “the largest find of growing cannabis in the area”. 
The find of 100 plants was made last week at the townland of Ballyhinch, near Cregg Cross and was part of an intelligence-led operation involving gardaí from Scariff and Killaloe. The haul is the second sizeable drug seizure in the county in a week following a €25,000 worth of cannabis resin found at a house in Ennis last Tuesday. 
Inspector John O’Sullivan of the Killaloe Garda District said the plants were discovered growing in a wooded area adjacent to a house in Ballyhinch, Whitegate. 
“The plants were reaching maturity and there was evidence some of them were partially harvested. They were obviously there for a good while and were being looked after as they need constant watering. It is the largest seizure in our area for some time,” Inspector O’Sullivan noted. 
Sergeant Joe Fallon who was co-ordinating the operation with Garda Darren McLoughlin at Scariff Garda Station explained that while there had been seizures of cultivated cannabis in the East Clare area in the past this was “the largest find of actual growing cannabis in the area”. 
He explained that in the past, plants had been located but the plants had been harvested and this seizure had “thwarted” the drug being harvested and sold on. The sergeant described the outdoor grow house as a “well-organised, well-hidden and well-concealed” operation, adding that gardaí were now pursuing “an open line of inquiry”. 
He explained that they had ruled out certain individuals from the investigation but were anxious to speak with anyone locally who may have noticed suspicious activity in the area or who may be able to help them with their enquiries. 
The area where this haul was found is located approximately two miles outside Whitegate on the Portumna side of Cregg Cross.

Gaaahhhh! It's only Wednesday night. Two more days of the horror week left! We are all practicing our buissness smile as much as we possible can manage. Even my horse for the first few days of the week (Hurricane) is practising his:

Some pictures from our biking trip on Aran Islands...

So. Im back from my little unplanned road trip. Took the ferry from Inez Mór ack to Doolin just in time to miss the days only bus to Lisdoonvarna where Nicola was meant to pick me up. I still would have had a few hrs to kill in Lisdoonvarna though so I decided to walk and really enjoyed the nice weather. Pulling my bag along the main road a first car pulls over already after 5 min walk. Abt 60 year old and stereotypically Irish. He gave me his buissness card because he thought I had a great personality and dropped me at the first cross, after I ensured him 7 times that I could walk the last bit since he was going the other direction anyway. Started to walk along the other road, 5km away from Lisdoonvarna and sort of pretended to speak in my phone since I really enjoyed the walk. Didn't help. Another guy pulled over after just 3 min and took me all the way to Lisdoonvarna. Pro hitchhiker, thats what I am! Got two rides and one number and asked for nothing!

Yes. Road tripping it is. Nothing at all is going according to the plans but its an adventure indeed. Atm in Sligo. Din an overnight trip from here, illegaly camping on a closed camping site, up to the giant's causeway. Pics will come later but im telling you, it was amazing! Nature is fantastic, its as easy as that.

Riding bareback on a very fat Nina. That's life yeah!

Thought I was gonna give you a face of Paddy. So here he is with flowers in his hair <3:

Got a busy week at work. Pretty much 3 trails going. I'm the leader for one of them on Paddy ofcourse =) Everyone in my group are sooo young, between 14 and 23 pretty much, from France and Germany. But they all seem very happy with the trail and their horses and I have my favourite horse so I cannot complain.