Destination: Sweden

Yule and Home

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 | By besoka | Views [877]

Executive Summary      After our Arctic trip (see previous post), we finished off our stay in Sweden with Xmas at Annika and Mattias’ place, seeing how the Swedes do it and catching up with the family.   After that we packed up our year and ... Read more >

Arctic Winter

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 | By besoka | Views [1085]

Time to finish off the paperwork for these blogs.   Unfortunately this is having to be written after I have returned to Australia, and so a lot of other things are happening, and have happened, to distract me from this blog. So we’ll see how we go.... Read more >

January - Kiruna Snow Festival, Sweden

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 | By worldfestivals | Views [3900] | Comments [2]

Location: Kiruna, Sweden. The snow sculpture competition takes place near the town hall. Dates: Late January (varies each year) Level of Participation: 4 – take part in guided tours, ice skating, lectures and Northern ... Read more >

Tags: kiruna snow festival, sweden, world festivals

Örebro 2

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 | By besoka | Views [1369]

Executive Summary This blog covers the 4 weeks or so between our last trip to the UK and our trip up to the Arctic.  It covers the second half of November and the first half of December.  During this time Emma worked on her second mini-sabbatical, ... Read more >

Tie Me Voulez Vous Down Sport 4

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 | By countryboy | Views [726] | Comments [4]

    I’ve eaten moose. Sat naked in a sauna. Sung ABBA to Abbanians. Gate-crashed a funeral. I must have been to Sweden.     The moose tasted like cow. The sauna smelt like pine. The Abbanians cheered like mad. And the dead guy left the building. The ... Read more >

Örebro and Skåne 2

Mon, 3 Nov 2008 | By besoka | Views [1225]

Executive Summary     OK, I think I’ll try and do Executive Summaries for all the Blogs from now on.  This blog covers the 5 weeks in (mostly) October between our first big trip to the UK and the second smaller trip to the UK .  Emma worked ... Read more >

Photos: Hawaii Honeymoon - Big Island

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 | By emma-o-scott | Photo Gallery

Photos: Hawaii Honeymoon - Molokai

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 | By emma-o-scott | Photo Gallery

Resarö

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 | By ivi | Views [484]

Viimased päevad siin sygiseses Rootsis. Reisipalavikku nagu pole lihtsalt otsustusvôimetus on vaevanud. Kysimused nagu kas lennata Krabist Kuala Lumpurisse vôi Phuketist Singapuri ja siis tagasi sôita Malaysiasse ja sealt Perthi. Täna oli viimane tööpäev ... Read more >

Learn Swedish with WorldNomads Swedish Language Guide

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 | By language-guides | Views [19705] | Comments [1]

Have you ever been stuck in a country wanting to be polite, but not even knowing the word for 'please'? Or been frustrated when you couldn't ask for the most basic directions to where you're going? The WorldNomads.com Swedish Language ... Read more >

Göteborg and Skåne 1

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 | By besoka | Views [2794]

Once we were safely back in Rockhammar after the Switzerland trip, we got to have a go at the age old Swedish late summer delight of walking in the forest and picking mushrooms and berries, and we didn't let a bit of damp weather stop us.  Since many ... Read more >

Sweden

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 | By mrandrew | Views [739]

I took a week off and went to Sweden. Some photos here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=50517&id=720958974&ref=share That's why you live in London, so you can do things like that. I spent 2 days in Stockholm. The highlight was the Vasa, ... Read more >

Gallery: Stockholm

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 | By romsterrom | Photo Gallery

Scintillating Stockholm

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 | By romsterrom | Views [1313]

Stockhom (3-6 July) Getting there & accommodation It was a pretty long day getting to Stockholm. It took a couple of train rides, including one trip on the X2000 train for which one has to pay 17E for ... Read more >

Herräng

Thu, 7 Aug 2008 | By besoka | Views [2462] | Comments [2]

Herräng is a small town in Sweden on the north coast of the bulgy bit that Stockholm and Uppsala are on.  For centuries it was the site of small-scale iron ore mining, until this became unviable in the 1960s.  Now, about 1000 people live there ... Read more >