Lund

I really love Lund, it's a comfy little university town, with some serious post-card edge. So easy to settle into, you can wander down any street and it will loop you back to some sort of square, fountain or park that you were loitering around earlier in the day. Perfect for sub-zero days when it's risky to whip out the iPhone and use maps in the open air, they tell you to keep your mechanical devices close to your body so they don't freeze.

The only problem with being in a university town are the inevitable groups of students around. It's strange being in a place where I know no-one my age. I suppose that, before I left, while I liked to think I was independent, I never fully realised how easily I could have the company of my good friends. I couldn't conceive of missing the people I'm closest to, because they've always just been around, luckily enough for me. Now at times I feel like I'm looking at everything through a window, because I'm so used to enjoying and appreciating things with other people that I have to get used to my own company when I'm wandering around. That's not to say that I don't enjoying going off to explore by myself, but you're met with a sobering silence when you remark, 'Hey look at that!' to yourself.

Excuse the quality of some of these pictures, a lot of them are snapped with the iPhone (seems weird not to follow the strange branded, spelling convention of little i and big P. What a mindless consumer I am). I have this irrational fear of being 'outed' as a tourist in places where I could potentially blend in (I've been asked for directions in Swedish, buy Swedes, so take that!) and especially since it's not peak season I feel like I stand out even more. I always snicker at myself when I see tourists getting snap-happy in Melbourne (shameful, I know) so I therefore feel really uncomfortable being behind the lens as a tourist, but hey, perhaps the rest of the world is not unpleasant and judgemental as me...Or maybe I'm just making things hard for myself. One further downfall of the iPhone's photos is the radioactive green tinge happening in the top right corners of the images courtesy of my phone cover from Malaysia, I tried to crop where I could but you can still see some Hulk edge to some of the frames. And wow, there goes 100 words on justifying myself. Whoever said insecurity gets you nowhere?