Blogs from Sweden, Europe - page 176

In plaats van echte elanden, zijn het ' ijzeren elanden' geworden. Het regende vandaag pijpestelen en dus hebben we ons niet in de bossen begeven maar in het..................Saabmuseum. Paar mooie plaatjes geschoten, (Mi)Chiel je zou er jaloers op mogen zijn :-) Trouwens erg gaaf ingericht dat museum en het eerste museum in Zweden dat ook Engels 'ondertiteld' (wat ook wel eens handig is). Vanochtend (voor de buien) nog wel bij Trollhattan naar de sluizen in het Gotakanaal geweest. Was inderdaad van een iets anders kaliber dan wat we al gezien hadden. Chiel heeft Tom haarfijn uitgelegd hoe het werkt dus bij thuiskomst kan hij overhoord worden in het vak 'werktuigbouwkunde'. En vanmiddag (na de buien) zijn we getuige geweest van 'vattenfallen': het loslaten van 300000 liter water per seconde in een droogstaand riviertje. Best geinig, ... read more

July 18th, 2007 Stockholm, Sweden Good day The group met at 8:30 this morning. Bruce had done research so that we all boarded the hop on hop off bus and started the loop. 8 of us negotiated and decided to… the bus driver said: “ let me bring you to the Vasa Museum( to see the 333 year old ship lifted from the Baltic after a 20 minute sail)- we said ok and off to be the first to visit the museum today before 2 cruise ships in port. Then we did the whole loop and separated Terry went with Ella and Leon to buy Akvit I went with 3 to visit the living museum at Skansen( 150 blgs) We all met at the hop off hop on bus stop #9- not arranged, walked to ... read more

Today we made one last foray into Copenhagen before we rode the train under the Oresund bridge to Malmo to meet our friends Johan and Charlotte, and their daughter Olivia. We met in the Train Station and walked over to the "Little Square" for lunch. Then we went back to their apartment and got settled in. Later that night we went out for a delicious dinner and some coffee. We walked through their local park and also walked down by the beach for a while. The sun didn’t go down until 11 PM! Tomorrow night is the soccer game, and Seth can't wait! I just wanted to add some of my thoughts and observations to what Vicki already posted. It is often the little differences that I find the most interesting. For instance, the flushing mechanism ... read more

When we last left off I was in Ferrara. Going there to visit Marcello was a very spontaneous decision that turned out to be a highlight of my trip. As soon as we got to his place we set up a table on his patio and decorated it with fresh crostini bread, pasta with homemade pesto, prosciutto, and a bottle of nice cool white wine. Just a typical lunch. Followed by some espresso of course. Then his mom gets home and inquires as to whether I would enjoy some fresh spaghetti alla vongole for dinner tomorrow night. Gee, let me think. Already I am so happy I am about to cry. After our lunch Marcello gives me an extra bicycle and we pedal around Ferrara for a bit and make our way to his cousin Christina's ... read more

Untitled Hey, sorry it's taken a while, but class has picked up a little and we have a 10 page paper due Friday, so finding time to blog has been tricky. As promised, more about Visby and Gotland ... I have over 100 pictures from this outing - I'm not posting all of them, but I have posted about 50, so you might have to hit next at the bottom to fully enjoy the pictoral splendor. As I've said before, Visby is absolutely beautiful. It is one of the oldest cities in Sweden because of its strategic location along several trading routes. To get there, we took a bus, 2 trains, and a ferry. We were on the island for a total of 5 days, staying in a youth hostel about a mile outside of the ... read more