Blogs from Sweden, Europe - page 152

Hi! My name is Lina, a 26 year old swedish girl who loves to explore the world. I've been stuck too long time just going back to visit friends in Indonesia and have now decided to go to visit another part of the world for ones. My plan is to go to Costa Rica and do some workpractise there at a Tourim Company. A small problem. I'm short of time to find a good company and I don't have much knowledge or contacts in Costa Rica or surroundings. Please! Anyone who's visited Costa Rica, I need you help with tips on what part of the country that might be best to stay in for those 6 months, and company that you can recomend that work in the tourim area. I'm an adventures girl. And I love ... read more

Where the heck to begin.... Lets see on the 4th Oct I caught the bus to Stanstead airport to catch the last Ryanair flight (thank god) that I plan on taking whilst in the UK. I landed in Malmo (Sweden) reasonably late and headed to my hostel in the south of the city. It was a very nice place. I work early due to lack of sleep from the snoring in the dorm and headed out in the mist to walk the streets of Malmo. It was a tad foggy which added to the mystery of the place. Swedish is remarkably similar to German so it was not a prob working out where everything was. I went for a stroll through the main streets and squares, past the Rathaus and canals. Wandered through the parks and ... read more

Based on some rough estimation, Sherry and I are making the unofficial call that we have each both set a new mark for 'personally-occupied, most northernmost point'. It looks like Stockholm is around 59.333 (you could say '3 repeating' if you're a math brain) degrees north latitude. That's pretty far north! In fact, in all likelihood when we grabbed our bags from the luggage carousel at the airport some 40km north of here, we were probably over 60 degrees north. We expect to restablish a new point of extreme when we travel on Sunday to Uppsala which is farther north. So, here we are in the so-called capital of Scandanavia, at least that's what the airport billboards were proclaiming. As far as I know, there are 3 other (at least) Scandanavian capitals that might compete. We're ... read more

Visingso is a tiny, gorgeous island in the middle of Lake Vattern, Sweden. One fine day, we went to the island for a picnic; 'we' comprising of Monu, Girish, Vivek, Kata and me. The island is gorgeous, with miles and miles of rolling meadows, enchanting forests, ruined castles, sleepy farmhouses, bleating lambs, ancient churches, shimmering lakes......stuff what Fairy tales are made off. We were half expecting a Princess Pretty or a Prince Charming to come out of somewhere. This is a place where time seems to have forgotten to flow. Pictures courtesy of Girish 'Moti' Singhania ... read more

Rather excited as I've just set up my profile on Travelblog.org to document and share my impending journey to become an EFL teacher in Asia and all other traveling. Just feel though it would be a shame to not share some of my more recent past trips with others. Only really going to post photos of these trips and perhaps add some more text at a later date. Stockholm, Sweden: Myself and two mates (and current work colleagues) decided to have a long weekend in Stockholm in September 2005. The weekend was great and I have some fantastic memories, although admittedly most are rather hazy from self-indulgence, the photos speak for themselves! ... read more

We FINALLY arrived in Stockholm after over 24 hours traveling by train to get there. We started out going from Linz back to Vienna, then took a night train from Vienna to Hamburg (which went back through Linz so we actually could've just stayed in Linz and cut nearly 3 hours off of our travel time by jumping on the train in Linz but we didn't realize it until the next morning in Hamburg!!!), missed the Hamburg stop (it was the train steward's fault... she told us the train was 30 minutes late, but it wasn't) and got off the train in a different part of Hamburg, took the subway back to the right Hamburg station, went to Copenhagen, changed trains to get to Malmo (which included the train riding on a ferry across the water), ... read more

Hi Everyone. So Stockholm.. well getting here was an adventure. The night train I was on had some sort of difficulties, never really did figure out what the problem was, but we were stuck in the middle of nowhere for 5 hours waiting for another train to come and take us the rest of the way to Stockholm. The time actually flew by as I met a Swedish woman, a Danish guy, an Australian guy and 2 Americans. We had a great time getting to know each other and pooling all our food for breakfast. The train company then gave us all food vouchers for the train station and Patrick, the Aussie, and I used them to buy beer!! Stockholm is a beatiful city.. I love it!! There are islands and bridges everywhere and they are ... read more