Blogs from Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe - page 61

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 arrived bearing flowers and chocolate for her bithday. After stealing the tissues from her room (to replace our lack of toilet paper) we had the beautiful buffet breakfast in the Hotel. After telling the lovely ... 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

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

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

Hey all Well most of you probably though i dropped off the face of the earth. But in actuality i had just gotten lazy. Most of you also know that i am already back. Why so early you ask? Well lots of reasons but mainly because i felt like coming back. So last time we left off was in Budapest. At this point i had already made up my mind to come back the end of the August. Salzburg, Austria Probably the biggest thing here, besides Arnold, is the castle on top of the hill. With spectacular views in every angle, you truly get a sense of how beautiful this place really is. Munich & Berlin, Germany Land of Oktoberfest, sausage, and lots of BMW's, LOTS! Germany is a cool place though. I was in Berlin ... read more