Background: A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war in almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both World Wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substantial welfare elements was challenged in the 1990s by high unemployment and in 2000-02 by the global economic downturn, but fiscal discipline over the past several years has allowed the country to weather economic vagaries. Indecision over the country's role in the political and economic integration of Europe delayed Sweden's entry into the EU until 1995, and waived the introduction of the euro in 1999.
May 6th 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Just a quick entry. Hope everyone is well. We're having a great time here in Sweden with our friends, Camilla, Rick and their 3 energetic children. Having continuously glorious weather and enjoying Sw ... [full story]
April 9th 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Well I made it, my big jump from Madrid to Stockholm and though it was only a three hour flight, they are worlds apart (as you would expect I guess). I spent a few nights in Stockholm doing all the t ... 11 photos[full story]
March 23rd 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Okay so my second day in Gothenburg was interesting. The snowstorm wasn't as bad, but it was still windy and cold. We left the apartment and took the tram to the Central Station. From there, we walked ... [full story]
March 21st 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg I arrived yesterday in Gothenburg. Angela described it to me as a really large Gamla Stan (old city in Stockholm) and I think she's right. This means I have so far decided I like Gothenburg. There are ... [full story]
February 15th 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg A little while ago (the weekend of 2 February actually, so I'm richly late in publishing this blog, as usual) I went on a weekend to Göteborg. Some might not know this but it is actually the second la ... 21 photos[full story]
January 16th 2008Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Då: Läste Japanska vid Göteborgs Universitet. A, B och C-kursen avklarade.
Nu: Flygbiljetter köpa. Ansökningar skickade. Papper fixade. Intyg utskrivna. Rekommendationsbrev fixade. Pengar växlade ... 5 photos[full story]
December 30th 2007Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Hiya travelblog lovers! =)
We hope you all have had a really nice Christmas. Now we're back in a cold and dark Gothenburg. We're not too sad about it though since we have missed all our friends, f ... 19 photos[full story]
November 27th 2007Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Ha borjar resan for Charlotte och Mattias. Sydostasien here we come! Charlotte harmed kallad 'C'. Mattias kan komma att kallas 'M' i bloggen.
Fick ta ett tidigare plan an beraknat, rappade pa orden ... [full story]
December 12th 2007Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg Armed with our blondish hair, popular swedish names, (and superhuman powers of course), we took scary flight number two to Gothenburg, Sweden. Thanks to Liz's friends Tess, Ryan, and baby Liam we had ... [full story]
July 20th 2007Europe » Sweden » Gothenburg 20th July 2007
Viola and I left Dawnbreaker very early on 15th July. We had a taxi booked for 6:45am as our flight was at 8:00am. When we were waiting we all noticed that everyone around both tha ... [full story]
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