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By JacobRTW
September 5th 2006

Back in Stockholm

Europe » Sweden » Stockholm County » Stockholm

Stockholm
Stockholm city centre (Strandvägen)

So my trip has begun, well sort of... I'm back in Stockholm, landed at Arlanda airport about an hour ago, at the inhuman hour of 0.40 am. My dad met me at the airport, and congratulated me of being a free man (or an unemployed former student perhaps :). So university is over, which is very very strange, it's going to take me a while to fully understand that I am no longer a student!! I handed in my master's dissertation this morning, 13,347 words of hard work!! I think the result was quite OK though, comparing the British and the [View Full Entry]

By DeefromNZ
September 5th 2006

Gothenburg Archipelago

Europe » Sweden » Västra Götaland » Gothenburg

Cute boatshed

Tuesday 5 September The morning dawned clear, calm (for a change) and surprisingly warm, so it was decided that the conditions were ideal for taking a trip out to the Gothenburg archipelago. This archipelago is completely different from the Stockholm one, being very barren and rocky. This in itself makes it beautiful, especially when you see a red and white house standing proudly on its own like sentinel in uniform protecting some sacred space. There are some vague peculiarities about things in Sweden, one of them being the transport system and rules. We hopped on the tram where we l [View Full Entry]

By tusselagon
September 2nd 2006

Election

Europe » Sweden » Uppsala County » Uppsala

Here in Sweden the election is coming up. For me it was a surprise, i've got a hint sometimes around May i think, from a webpage but didn't think more about it. Then i come home and it was just screaming at my face: election in september!! vote!! And it startet to be everywhere. Parties standing for this n that. Don't forget to vote!! Parties doing their best to get through to the citizens w their program, n while doing that they just confuse me to max, when i try to understand what they really mean, using word n sentence i've [View Full Entry]

By MBonnette
September 2nd 2006

European Adventures (and the Punch Party)

Europe » Sweden » Stockholm County » Stockholm

The East Side Gallery Berlin Wall
Berlin-Germany 28/8/06

G'Day G´Day. Gee you can´t half tell I´ve been hanging around with a whole lot of Aussies for the past 6 days!!! BERLIN-GERMANY 27/8/06-29/8/06 Well my grand adventures in Europe have begun. I managed to survive the gauntlet run, that is Healthrow airport, unscathed and with time to spare (a minor miracle), and landed in Berlin safe and sound. I actually found another couple in the airport who are on my trip as well which was great. It wasn´t hard to miss us looking like giant wonky turtles with multicoloured shells, doing the every so elegant back-packer waddle. So after [View Full Entry]

By SwedeGirl
September 2nd 2006

Week 2 in Sweden

Europe » Sweden » Jönköping County » Jönköping

Kitty the Viking
Kitty showing off her new found Swedish heritage

Finally O Week has come to an end and things have started to mellow out in my favourite little town of Jonkoping. SUNDAY Ill start with Sunday because O week officially ended at the brunch. Our intention was to catch a bus out to Gotteburg and pull an all nighter (seeing as though the town has normal rules whereby clubs dont have to close at the insane hour of 2am and can keep going) for Becca's 21st birthday. So that day beforehand Gina and I headed to our new local hangout A6 to go buy Becca her bday present and that [View Full Entry]

By SwedeGirl
August 29th 2006

CRAZY CRAZY Sweden (and O Week)

Europe » Sweden » Jönköping County » Jönköping

Girls at Calypso
Cristen, Kitty, Claire, Myself and Becca at the Calypso Party (end of night...12 wines later)

PHEW. O Week is finally over in Sweden. Although I am overwhelmed and exhausted (and incredibly sick) at the moment i must say that this would have had to have been the most fun I have had in an incredibly long time! So how did the week go? Well I got in on Sunday to have a few 'administration' issues so I spent hours waiting around until I actually got my accomodation which you can imagine did not put me in the most fabulous of moods. So after finally arriving in my pretty funky new apartment (in the International house which [View Full Entry]

By Minerva
August 28th 2006

Some thoughts

Europe » Sweden » Västra Götaland » Borås

La Alhambra
Granada. Seen from the path leading from Generalife, the summer palace. This is my paradise.

I've tried my hand at the whole blog thing before, with rather depressing results. It's surprising how difficult it is to write something that is worth reading, and not just some self-centred piece of garbage, when one is writing about oneself. Fiction, I am good at, but when it comes to depictions of real events, I still have a long way to go. In two weeks, however, I leave for England, to start my second year of studying international relations and politics at the University of Sheffield. I've been wanting to keep some sort of journal about my stay there, to [View Full Entry]

By yzarCritS
August 22nd 2006

Holm, Swede, Holm!

Europe » Sweden » Stockholm County » Stockholm

Stockholm Skyline
View of Stockholm from Skansen.

August 19, 2006 - August 22, 2006 My flight into Stockholm was fairly uneventful, with one exception. The woman sitting in the seat next to me had the worst breathe I think I’ve ever experienced. At first scent, I was unable to determine what the source of the crude smell was. Eventually I linked the awful aroma to her frequent yawns. The stench was appalling. I was very tempted to spend the rest of the flight in the airplane toilet, as that would have been a much more pleasant scent then what I was suffering through. I desperately wished I had [View Full Entry]

By Supaluminal
August 21st 2006

Preparing to come home

Europe » Sweden » Stockholm County » Stockholm

We are back in Sweden at the moment. At the moment we're in Västerås trying to pack our bags at just the right weight to get them on the plane. Early start tomorrow morning, we have to catch a train to the airport at 0555. The weekend was spent in Leksand for poker on Friday night and Kraftskiva (a yabbie party that is really just an excuse to sing songs and shot 40% alcohol) on Saturday. I won poker on Friday night, which covered about 8-10 beers for the night. And then onto Saturday. Got very merry, us Aussies lost to [View Full Entry]

By DeefromNZ
August 17th 2006

Stockholm Photos

Europe » Sweden » Stockholm County » Stockholm

Stockholm

Some shots from out and about in Stockholm. [View Full Entry]

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