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.
August 12th 2003Europe » Sweden » Stockholm At first sight the guy seems rather normal. After having released a few incomprehensible murmurs, this perception is radically altered. Before having even landed his butt on the seat, he has initiated ... [full story]
September 12th 1999Europe » Sweden » Stockholm It's not really clear why he decided to go to Stockholm. Just a short vacation, I guess. Staying at a youth hostel makes it impossible not to talk to strangers. He's from England somewhere. Name is Gr ... [full story]
April 27th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm So... sorry about the last few countires, and sorry also that this one might be a bit longer than I usually aim for.
From Amsterdam we flew to Finland, where we promptly got on a boat to Tallinn i ... 1 photos[full story]
April 21st 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm So I manage to get more time in the Old town before heading down to the oil pumper - basically the ferry is a floating disco and all of the single people in stockholm and all of the single people in s ... [full story]
April 25th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm After a rushed goodbye - as I slept in! - I depart from Kamila and Barthos's place (and trying to get them to come to Hong Kong) I rush over town to catch the train over to Malmo before switching to c ... [full story]
April 15th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm As I write this, our Swedish visit is all but over and I am really quite disappointed. Sweden is a wonderful country, one that I would have liked to spend more time in. The contrast with the States co ... 14 photos[full story]
April 13th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm Stockholm was a lot of fun! It is such a beautiful city - there aren't many monuments, so we had a really fun time just wandering around all the islands. We found some free museums to go to, so we e ... [full story]
April 11th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm April 9
Today, starting from our 3pm arrival at JFK, was a bit of a shocker. Nothing particularly bad happened, but we did nothing but travel for almost 30 hours (I think; too many time zones!). We s ... 10 photos[full story]
April 11th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm Its been goodbye to New York and on to the quiter pastures of Stockholm. This is what we have been up to for the past few days;
April 8
Today was a more 'cultural' day in New York, starting in C ... 12 photos[full story]
March 7th 2008Europe » Sweden » Stockholm Its a tradition for the vanhojen tanssi students in the southern finnish schools to go on a cruise to stockholm, sweden after their dance! Ours was this weekend! We all met up at the Turku harbor in ... 50 photos[full story]
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