Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

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...

It’s so weird that it’s only a sea between the war in Syria and the endless parties of Ayia Napa in Cyprus. It really shows how different the world can be when in Cyprus the biggest problem seems to be that the buses come and go however they want. We got a taste of that when I and my friend Andreas arrived almost two weeks ago and the first bus from the airport dropped us of and the driver said “some bus will come sometime and take you to Ayia Napa”. We waited an hour before all 6 of us who had been dropped off got tired of waiting for something that wasn’t going to come, so we split a cab together. We all were couples of 2 people who knew each other and we told the cab driver to go to the center of Ayia Napa so we all could walk from there, but one grumpy old man of the company just yelled his hotel name all the time so the cab driver took us there instead, which was very far from the center. Fortunately the cab driver made a second stop and we finally arrived at the beach hotel calle...