Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

If you don't count the Vatican then Monaco is the world's smallest country and it's actually just a small part of the French riviera that has become its own country, so that the rich people can go somewhere to avoid taxes.  Me and my friend Andreas came by train from the shitty place Marseille in France, and we would only stay in Monaco for one night since it was so expensive to stay there. We even had to stay in an apartment hotel just outside the border of Monaco to be able to afford it, but it's not like you notice any borders anyway. Monaco is more of a city than a country and you can walk wherever you want to go, except to the Exotic Garden I guess. My first suggestion to Andreas was to go to the garden and we tried to find our way through the maze of all narrow streets and steep hills. We got lost and could see that we were a mountain down from the garden and we asked a rich guy walking by if he knew how to get up to it. He showed us the somewhat hidden ...

When I was a kid and came home from school with my friend Marco, we went up to my room to play and suddenly my mom called me down to the kitchen. She told me she had a surprise for me, that me and her were going to the outskirts of Chania on the island Crete that belongs to Greece together with her new boyfriend since my birthday was coming up. I couldn’t believe it, Greece, that was far away and with sunny beaches and swimming pools and it all seemed so amazing! I remember I bragged about it for Marco and I felt like the coolest kid in the world, me, I’m going to Greece! It was the first time I ever went on a trip to a country that didn’t remind me of Sweden, like the neighboring countries or Scotland had done. This was going to be something completely different and I was looking forward to be seeing a new side of the world that I already loved beforehand. It felt like the best birthday gift ever. When we arrived, it was just like I had imagined, I fell in love with all the whi...