Yay, I am ALL done with finals and since the tests are FINALLY over, I can finally update this blog which I've wanted to do ever since I got back, but got a little bombarded with the studying. So after Copenhgagen, I arrived in Stockholm around 1pm and was so exhausted, barely able to keep my eyes open until I saw the Swedish welcoming pictures of famous people at the airport. And when I passed Ingrid Bergman's welcome picture at the end, I was snapped awake and really excited to go "tramping" (of the traveling kind, not the sexual...lol) around Stockholm. [View Full Entry]

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03:00 Ontario time 20:00 Ghana time 21:00 Stockholm time 22:00 Helsinki time I am at a level on this ferry that is surely below the waterline. I did notice the trailer trucks parked right outside the door in the hallway to my cabin -2077- At this moment my bunk is shuddering, vibrating and I can hear the engines working. Being on Level 2 , I am thinking there is only one number left on the way down the scale ... i.e. 1 ... that must be where the engines are. I am under the cars ... Level 3 has a C [View Full Entry]

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Not to be confused with Purple Rain ... but the feeling was similarly extatic! Getting up at 08:00 is about as early as is decent when one is traveling ... the Swiss princesses come in late so quietness has to be considered and also a time not so early as to disturb ... it always seems to take till around ten to get out and start the days exploration. 1. Go to neighbourhood postal outlet in Tobak store ... woman immensely helpful ... green fleece left for homeless person ... would have cost 350SEK to send ... that's $60 .... other [View Full Entry]

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All previously made plans for day five flew out the window! Ikea was the programme. Info at train station only in form of computer screen. Girls in Pocketbook store tell me where to find the human Tourist Information. It will be the job of that person to help me figure out how to get to Ikea by public transit. The Info is blocks away. The man there is very helpful and tells me about the free bus to Ikea from that certain spot which he xes on the map. I tell him that the Info place is a bit in an [View Full Entry]

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Still in Stockholm. Its the fourth full day. Museums do not open until 11:00 and some close by 15:00. The mission on day four was to visit the Kings Library, the City Library, and the Royal Apartments. The libraries were accomplished. The Royals will have to wait for another day. The Kings Library requires all packs and outdoor clothing too be left in lockers. See thru plastic bags are provided for those things you want to bring into the premises. I thought originally the bag was to protect your coat from the bottom of the locker. An exhibition of posters was [View Full Entry]

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Hallo iedereen, een vlug berichtje vanuit Stockholm Allereerst moet ik zeggen dat het hier in Stockholm goed te doen is, het is een prachtige stad en je kan er makkelijk in ronddwalen. Hopeloos verdwalen is volgens mij ook niet al te lastig maar dat is gelukkig niet gebeurt. Ik zit op dit moment in een knus internetcafé met Andy en een hoop gamers om ons heen. We zijn hier gisteren middag aangekomen nadat we in een Testcentrum voor Nucleair afval zijn geweest. In dat centrum zijn we tot 450 meter onder de aardoppervlak gegaan om te kijken waar ze mee [View Full Entry]

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Day 11, September 11 Besides being my Mother's 91st birthday, we all remember the insane, Muslim, diseased, creeps who flew into the World Trade Center in 2001. Imagine their surprise when, instead of beautiful virgins, they were greeted by the red stoker in hell, not much different than their countries. We walked to the train station and got two tickets on the slow train for 204 NOK/$34. On the platform a group of middle school students gave me the heebie jeebies with the usual cacophony and bullies shoving shorter intellectual students wearing black horn rimmed glasses off the platfor [View Full Entry]

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Day 12, Saturday, September 12 We have had many included breakfasts at hotels around the world, usually hockey puck rolls, cereal, and juice, tea, or coffee. The Royal Viking had the BEST breakfast we have ever had. With more choices than a big balled black bull in a herd of horny Hereford heifers they even had a Japanese buffet besides the 100 foot regular buffet. We treated this as breakfast, mid morning snack, brunch, lunch, and late afternoon snack piling on meat, potatoes, pancakes, eggs, fruit, yogurt, cheese, Danish, rolls, vegetables, and juice into a 3.86 pound pile of Swedish [View Full Entry]

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Day 13, September 13 Another 3.86 pound breakfast of meat, eggs, pancakes, yogurt, fruit, and juice packed a gazillion calories into the hatch for a long haul sightseeing day. On a Sunday the busses run infrequently. Waiting at first one bus stop, another and another, we just kept walking until we hit the Royal Palace which had not opened yet. Right behind the Palace is Riddarholmskyrkan/Riddarholmen Church with a number of Swedish Monarchs and nobility buried there. As you walk in a big sign has a camera with a flash and a red circle with a line through it. If that [View Full Entry]

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We don't trust any one or anything especially on trips where evil locals give false or misleading information to helpless tourists. After another huge delicious breakfast, I departed exactly at 8 am to check how long the airport trip took. The directions from the information booth yesterday seemed extremely simple. Use the Stockholm Card, take public transportation to Marsta and bus 583 to the airport. On my public transportation map it appeared I took the metro. At the metro station the attendant said, "No, you take the train." I walked a quarter mile to the train station, looked a [View Full Entry]

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