Blogs from Västra Götaland County, Sweden, Europe - page 23

Day 3-4: Gothenburg Jetlag descends upon me like a gray clouded monster to envelope me, like the oncoming of storm clouds descending on a town ready to make hell. Jetlag is hellish. I thought I had kicked jetlagg’s butt to the curb, not having drank any alcoholic drink and sleeping on the plane, making sure to stay awake the whole day once I got to Stockholm and the next day following Stockholm’s schedule and eating times, and falling asleep at a reasonably time, 22:00 and getting up around 8am the second day. The morning sun rays spread into the empty hardwood floor room, climb onto bed, crawls underneath my sleeping mask and pry my eyes open. The sound of tires hitting wet concrete indicate to me that it is still raining, harking back to my dreadful ... read more

Untitled Before we parted Marylee did inspire me to travel north above the arctic circle so on Sunday I went to Ostersand to take the scenic train, Inlandsbanan, up to Gallevare. I stayed in Ostersand for three nights, the first at a bed & breakfest where I met a member of the Swedish parliament. He was an AFS exchange to San Deigo 1991 and we talked politics for three hours, I was thinking he was an interesting fellow till he told me he would have voted for George Bush. One thing that Sweden is famous for is taking a number when you enter an office and wait your turn till your number is called. At times it is very helpful like at the tourist office when they are helping hundreds of people each day and makes ... read more

De var vel lite overdrivet... ja, pa flygplatsen i Gotet... ... read more

Up until fairly recently, I thought I was pretty much the only one who suffered from what we in plain Swedish call "resfeber" or, literally translated, "travel fever". When you're just sitting at home, flipping through books and magazines, travelling sounds like the most wonderful thing in the world. So you book your trip, you start planning, looking forward to it. Then it hits you. You're really going. It could be wonderful, but oh dear God are there a billion things that could go wrong... And the worrying, nervousness and anxiety begins. Just recently I read an opinion piece in a Swedish travel magazine about this very phenomenon, and it made me realise this does, in fact, happen to other people - even to seasoned travellers. The piece suggested the reasons for feeling like this could ... read more