Blogs from Jönköping, Jönköping County, Sweden, Europe

Szwecja przywitala nas w tym roku deczko lepsza pogoda niz rok temu, kiedy to w czerwcu musialam kupowac welniana czapke, zeby przezyc. Nie padalo. Bylo za to rownie drogo, a moze nawet drozej. W Sztokholmie ograniczylismy sie w sumie do wloczenia sie po naszej ulubionej dzielnicy Sodermalm, gdzie jest mnostwo malych sklepow z pieknym niczym, knajp i kawiarni, gdzie siedza wystylizowane na brzydko Szwedki, popijajac kawe z przelewowego ekspresu, sprzedawana w systemie "all you can drink". A wsrod tego wszystkiego wlocza sie wydziarani mlodzi tatusiowe z wozkami, ktorzy maja jakies tonu urlopu tacierzynskiego i wydaja sie byc absolutnie zrelaksowani. Jedynym odstepstwem byla wizyta w Skansenie, gdzie przeniesiono fragmenty szwedzkich wsi z calego kraju, co najlepiej obrazuje, jaka tu jeszcze niedawno byla bieda. Pol roku lezal snieg, a ludzie chodzili w butach z brzozowej kory. Ale byl ... read more

It happened on a Friday late in the afternoon. I was at my desk feeding yet another redundant time management system with the weekly time report before calling it a day and heading home for the weekend. Little did I know that the stale boredom of the office routine was about to be changed rather abruptly. It started with an email forwarded by my colleague Patrick, one of those promotional blurbs from a travel website. However, sharing my passion for Asia (as well as having endured my endless bitching about wanting to go to Hong Kong or Bangkok but not finding any reasonably priced tickets) he had noticed flights to Asia starting at around 3500 SEK (that's roughly €400 or $500 for you int'l readers...) and figured it could be worth checking out. The campaign was ... read more

Actually this trip came about as a result of the upcoming Songkran festival in Thailand. My good friend Kay in Bangkok had four days holiday announced and was dying to get out off town, thereby avoiding the water (and other substances) splashing that will take place at random in the streets. And with Easter coming up here in Europe during the same weekend it was a good enough opportunity to travel without spending too many days off work indeed. At first we looked at options going into the countryside and spending some lazy days at the coast. As you have already figured out the flights were kinda overbooked when we got around to planning. Pretty much every domestic airport in the south was filled to capacity. And if we found seats on a plane out off ... read more

My travel itinerary: http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_Fm.html Dates: Feb 3 Manaus Feb 10 Belem Feb 13 Sao Luis Feb 17 Recife Feb 21 Salvador CARENVAL!!! March 2 Florian March 5 Iguacu Falls March 9 Rio March 15 Sweden... read more

After having finally spent the past weeks to sort out which flights to use it was now time to make my mind up on how to get to Kastrup airport. It may seem like the smallest of concerns yet this simple transfer has a tendency to become drawn out, due to the limited availability of connecting flights or other means of transportation. Basically it boiled down to two options; jumping on and off trains southward or going north to grab a connecting flight to Copenhagen from Stockholm (There is also a theoretical third option. My hometown Jönköping is blessed with an "international" airport, but opting for the flight to Copenhagen would mean arriving at 8 am for an onward flight in the late evening. Thanks, but no thanks). A connecting flight from Stockholm was my first ... read more