Swedish people are very nice!

We arrived on a Wednesday and found out that our stroller was missing from the airport baggage area. Staying alone with Simon and Ariane during the day, I was not looking forward to be going out with them for a long walk.

On Thursday we went by train to Malmo to buy a cargobike that we had found on blocket.se, the swedish craigslist. The seller was very nice and offered us, while talking with us about our future use of the cargobike and the fact that we had no more stroller, to lend us one. She was offering to bring it to Lund central station on Monday. Wow!

On Thursday night we went out to a pub, The Bishops Arms, with Nicolas' collegues. He was cheered for biking with the cargobike from Malmo to Lund, and one of his collegues offered him to lend us a stroller for the time we would need it. Nico went to get it at their place, with the cargobike, on Friday.

By Saturday we had our stroller back from the airport delivery service.

We will still meet for a coffee in the forseable future with the cargobike seller, and are happy to have been able to try out the typical swedish stroller: the emmaljunga Nitro or Supernitro equivalent from few years back.

Thanks!

A New life for a short while: in Sweden!

We arrived in Copenhagen, Kastrup airport, after a good long flight from Toronto where we got lots of room to sleep. At least for the kids. Since the flight wasn't full, we were able to use 3 seats for me + the baby cot, and 3 seats for Simon and Nicolas further away in the plane. The service on this flight was very good, all the hostess were really fond of the kids and spent lots of time smiling to Ariane.

The one drawback on aircanada is the fact that the flight from Montreal to Toronto was full of businessmen with carry-on and they forced us to check every one of the 3 carry-on suitcases that we had. Lesson learned: never spread all your baby things around in the carry-on, you might have to check them even if you don't want to.

The taxi company that we used to go to Lund, "Taxi Skåne", booked in advance, was good, on time and they waited for us while we were filling the missing stroller file at the airport lost baggage desk.
Now we are in Lund and the apartment looks like an ikea web page... Not bad at all, and very clean. A few items missing, like the hooks for towels in the bathroom, or the dishdrainer in the kitchen... we'll be fine.