To spend some more time with Mum (including her birthday) Justin and I thought that it would be a good idea to follow Mum to Sweden, where she had an exhibition. We soon found out that Sweden was famous for a number of things including Volvos, ABBA, beautiful people (that was our own deduction) and the Nobel Prize. Saturday 12th November Justin and i flew to Stockholm in the early hours of Saturday morning (love those cheap ryan air flights). After staying the night in our budget hostel (with no toilet paper) we met Mum at the luxurious Radisson Hotel. We [View Full Entry]

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G'day all! Hope your all doing well! not so much going on, at school most days, trying my best to understand Swedish, Im making progress, but its not the easyest language, i still struggle with english! I was surfing yesterday, that was really fun! but i think it was the coldest ive ever been in my life! water temp is 8 deg and air about 10, managed to stay in the water for 2 hrs! Its really dificult conditionds, the wind and all the rubber does'nt make life easy, The national saurfing competition is on Saturday, we might go along and [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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A trip to Scandinavia... Stockholm was lovely. This city had the nicest people I have ever come across... from the guy who stamped my passport to our waiter at the restaurant to the salesman I bought shoes from to the girl at the hostel with a greenstone necklace, to the barman at the icebar... So there's a quick 'what I did in Stockholm!' Stockholm in Autumn was stunning (as you'll see in the pics) - it was also very cold... like Wellington with a crisp Southerly... but gorgeous views, people and food. We even ate reindeer - a local delicacy... and [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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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, [View Full Entry]

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Hello, Hallå, Yep, im back in a class room, like a little school boy! I started SFI (swedish for immigrants) two weeks ago, its been really fun so far, so much to take in and very difficult at times! no english is spoken at all. I was a little supprised at how much i understod and im making ok progress! It is truly a class of immigrants, im the only one in the class with english as there first language, we have arrabics, Bosnians, russans, a polish girl, A Sumalian and more, its cool! Em and I were in Gothenberg a [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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I travelled to Stockholm to umpire the Grand Final of the Stockholm Australian Football Federation (SAFF). This was my first trip to Stockholm. Stockholm is a beautiful city and I had a great time there. [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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