After being thoroughly chided for not updating my site in a while - not to mention speculation about my having been captured by ninjas - I am happy to confirm that reports of my demise have been greatly exagerrated.

So I'm still in northern sweden: I've been sorting some things out - mostly of a financial nature - but the time has come to make a move. My pockets newly stuffed with foreign coin, I will be heading down to stockholm for a bit. I've managed to get a lead on a trucker that might get me down there for free (I don't want to attempt hitchihiking again in sweden, I assure you), so I have abandoned any plans of building a tipi in the woods outside östersund, as interesting as that would have been. From stockholm I have booked a plane ticket with ryanair, a brilliant operation that charges ridiculously little for intra-european flights, but it would take all the fun out of it if I were to reveal where to :) Well, a little mystery won't kill you guys. So the plan is to get down to stockholm for a while, to stay with friends of either my swedish "roommates" or of a german girl I met in Nordhorn (germany), then to fly away to greener pastures - which should be easy considering almost every pasture will be greener than an increasingly wintery sweden's. So as I said, no ninjas - unless they're exceptionally sneaky ninjas, which, being ninjas, they would almost certainly be. Damnit.