Christmas at Emma, Frank, Ida and Tea

Tartu, Estonia

This last week I spent two days in the city of Tartu, a town similar to Lund both in size (about 100 000 inhabitants) and in orientation (both are centered around their respective universities). Another common feature of the two is that their universities have been founded both by Swedish kings, and almost at the same time: Tartu in 1632, Lund in 1666. Unfortunately I did not have time to explore the town at ease, this being a working visit, but some small instants of Tartu have been captured on camera:

The Main University Building
The University Cafeteria, where we had dinnerMain Square, decorated for ChristmasThe View from my hotel windowThe City Hall

Advent

Yesterday was the first of advent and in the traditional Swedish way we celebrated it by having friends over and eating at least 7 types of cookies. Here are some pictures to prove there was truly such an explosion of sugar confections!











And here it is the happy hostess, wishing you all a happy Advent