Not everything in Sweden is about Stockholm. Check into the west coast scene and you’ll find the great interactive agency Daddy. We had a quick chat with Daddys Creative Partner and Co-Founder Gustav Martner.

We managed to get hold of Fredrik Heghammar at Perfect Fools Stockholm, one of many cool production companies that started in Sweden and that help agencies around the world execute their ideas to perfection.

So this is it. I’m sitting at the airport waiting for my flight home to Gothenburg. I finished Budapest today with a visit at the Central Market, a long brunch at Gerlóczy and then the very last hot thermal bath for this time.

Hopefully I will come and visit the city for vacation some day. I will miss my friends here.

Take care you guys, you know who you are :)

If you get fed up walking your dog in Budapest. Just throw away the poor dog. There are very convenient garbage cans for that.

At least that what the dog people seems to do here, ’cause thye sure don’t clean up the poo after their dogs. .

Last Friday we had a x-mas party here in Amsterdam with De-Construct. We mt up at Gaper a bar close to the office and then we went for a quick stop at Miami Ad Schools vernissage. Good fun to see the students work.

After that we got up on our bikes and went to the restaurants. It was lots of great food and a loads of laughs since the theme was hats. Everyone had to buy a hat to a certain person. We ended up with several cool cat hats. An american military helmet, an indian chief headpiece with colorful feathers, a really small green doll hat and a fez to mention a few. Great food and loveable people. What else do you need?

Unfortunately I forgot my usb-cable to my camera so I can’t upload any pics until I get back to Budapest.

Interesting how my placement turned out to be exactly as any job I had. The weeks before Christmas is always the busiest during the year. And for some reason I have more to do now than I had over the past 3,5 months all together. Hmm… Well no question about it I will definitely be busy at De-Con Amsterdam next year. I like it already. I realised I’ve spent 20 days of my 113 days of the first placment here in Amsterdam.

But it’s so cold here. I miss the hot thermalbaths in Budapest. Lucky me I’m going back this Thursday to finish things off, join Kirowskis x-mas party, clean out the flat, buy a suitcase full of sausages, take a last hot bath, eat a big plate of Borjúpapikasz and then fly off in Sunday afternoon to Gothenburg.

Me and Catja went for lunch today. And I was really surprised to see two lovely cats hanging around in the restaurant. We all know cats are pretty clean, but still…hmm. I guess they´re good att keeping the rats off the premises at least. It felt nice and they stayed on the floor totally unaware of the guests in the restaurants.

I started to think of what I will miss not living in Budapest after the 22nd December. The things I will miss the most with Budapest are these:

1. The hot outdoor thermal baths, the best way to use a lazy Sunday.

2. Borjúparikasz (fantastic Hungarian veal stew in paprika sauce with home made gnocchi)

3. The Market. Love to hang there and buy sausages at Saturdays.

Yesterday I went out on a fieldtrip. All the way out to the XVII district. In Budapest the city is divided into 23 districts. Starting with # 1 in the city center and numbered clockwise in wider circles. Anyway, I went out to check out the Jewish Cemetary. It was a nice sunny but chilly day with snow to expect.

After 35 minutes tram ride I finally arrived. I had no clue where to go, but quickly found the entrance. Unfortunately there was no map so I just started to walk into the cemetary. I had read somewhere that there is around 300 000 graves at the cemetary. I guess that number also includes all the small compartments that holds only ashes.

Beside being huge and a never ending cemetary there where so many things that caught my eyes. Old graves. New white marble graves that most have costed a fortune, small wooden crosses. Big family graves. I walked around for 1 1/2 hour then it started to snow and I was starting to get chills by being where I was.I found it particularly interesting to see how people had made the graves ready for the winter, and I guess when a family spends so much money on it of course you would like it to be clean and be able to stand the winter. But hey, it’s stone. Another interesting thing is how they use white marble and that we in Sweden prefer to use black, grey or red granite.

When it’s time for me to leave I will have a white tombstone. With a cat sleeping on top of it with it’s legs hanging down the side of the stone.

So it will be a fun and happy stone instead of a black and conservative, boring stone.

What to do in New York when feeling energetic, hung over, sophisticated or just want to chill?

It’s far from complete this somewhat-tourist-guide but I find it pretty neet. As it seems the best city at the moment is New York, but it also has a London version and a Toronto beta version. Maybe the guys in those citys can start putting in their favourites.

Check it out.

www.ifeelnyc.com