Blogs from Sweden, Europe - page 161

So Sweden eh? Havign never been there, I had alot of preconceptions about Swedes and their homeland, all of which turned out to be based on pure fact. Thanks to the beautiful Øresund bridge, I was able to hop on a train, and arrive in Lund no more than an hour later. I was to meet up with Lina, whom along with a friend surfed my couch back in 2006. I messaged her to say what time I would arrive, but did not hear anything back so I went for a walk around the town upon arrival. Many shops and cafés were furnished with Ikea products, there were Saabs and Volvos galore, and nigh on every woman was gorgeous. Three from three for Sweden! After messaging again and getting no respose I set off in search ... read more

Stockholm was a lot of fun! It is such a beautiful city - there aren't many monuments, so we had a really fun time just wandering around all the islands. We found some free museums to go to, so we even learned a little bit about the history - it's a really interesting and rich history! We also went to the National Museum and Modern Museum, which we had to pay to go into, but I'm glad we did! I went with Sarah, a girl from Australia - it was her first time seeing snow! We went on a boat tour which was really great - it got kind of chilly, but we were able to see a lot of interesting sites and learn some of the history of the city. We spent a lot of ... read more

April 9 Today, starting from our 3pm arrival at JFK, was a bit of a shocker. Nothing particularly bad happened, but we did nothing but travel for almost 30 hours (I think; too many time zones!). We started with a 4-hour wait at JFK airport, before a 6-hour flight to Heathrow. The flight itself was no problem, although neither of us got any sleep. Arrival at Heathrow was a bit more of a problem, as we were scheduled for the now infamous Terminal 5 (they have apparently lost 28,000 bags since openly last week). Firstly we were stuck on the plane for half an hour as they waited for buses to transport us to the terminal - this was not all that bad as most of our fellow passengers had left already, so we hung out ... read more

Well I made it, my big jump from Madrid to Stockholm and though it was only a three hour flight, they are worlds apart (as you would expect I guess). I spent a few nights in Stockholm doing all the tourist things you have to, then I moved on to Goteberg. Stockholm is a very clean city in fact too clean the buildings are beautiful and everything is on islands and so green and grey (I guess you can expect the grey if you decide to go to Sweden in the winter). In goteberg I stayed with my friend Emanuel who worked at the hostel for 8 months or so. He had the time off work so I had a personal guide to the ins-and-outs of the area. We even took a tour of the Volvo ... read more

... och på den sjunde dagen la Gud ner sina lersaker för att resa iväg med sin backpack Och för de som undrar vad man kan ha i en backpack så kan följande avslöjas: Den är en stor väska som innehåller två medelstora väskor, en stor vattentätt kompressionsväska, två små vattentätta påsor (in case of Tsunami), en kameraväska, fem olikfärgade små bags, en vattenflaska, en knivfodral, en liten väska som man fäster på den stora väska och flera vanliga plastpåsar. Jag är fortfarande inte säker på vad jag ska fylla dem med. Rutten blir följande: Malmö (tåg) - Stockholm (färja) - Helsinki (buss) - Sankt Petersburg (tåg) - Moskva (trans-sibiriska) - Ullan Baatar - Beijing. Hela resan tar ungefär en halvmånad, med halva tiden på tåget, vilket påminner mig att kanske ta med en kudde ... read more