Sweden Travel Blogs

Quote of the moment: "Sometimes you miss the pain", Swingers. Stockholm.... Travelling up through Sweden to see their fair capital you have to take a moment to consider and appreciate the rolling landscapes, the wooden houses, the clear blue ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by foolsgold
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High stakes in the Swedish capital.

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by stevefn
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... train station where I hop a train to Vasteras to meet up with another Malin from couchsurfing.  Vasteras is the 4th largest city in Sweden at 140,000 or so, situated on a large lake just west of Stockholm.  I get off the train to the bottle of ...

A travel blog entry from Vasteras by madman96
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... -cooked vodka that was not what I needed at that point in the night.  We all walked back to Malin's place and made it to bed sometime before we had to be up to grab a train into Stockholm for the Sweden - Ukraine friendly soccer match the "next" day.

A travel blog entry from Vasteras by madman96
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BONNE SAINT-JEAN AUX QUEBECOIS!!!! En pensee je suis avec vous! :) Hier malgre la pluie je suis alle au musee du bateau Vasa. C'etait tres interessant mais ce fut une longue marche, rien pour aider ma maladie. Hier soir j'etais avec un groupe de ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by jelg
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... to eat and Malin actually asked if I wanted a beer with my breakfast... I look around and see most people decked out in Sweden apparel and it seems like everyone has a beer in hand.  Still, I graciously decline (score one for me!) and continue ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by madman96
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... cone of ice cream afterwards that was like heaven on earth! Next we walked around and talked about life in Australia and Sweden as well as long distance relationships... she's been dating a Swedish guy she met in Thailand for the past 3.5 years and ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by madman96
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Having a couple of days off in early December, it was definitively about time planning a new excursion with my long time favorite travel buddy Alf Kåre. We "snuste på" destinations like Egypt, Morocco and Romania, but ended up with a& ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by stevefn
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... your mornings start like this, you know the day has to get better. Trains cross the bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden every twenty minutes, from there we caught the train north to Stockholm. The fast trains in Scandinavia arecalled the X2000 series ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by tbassplayer
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... (Russia) 6. Los Angeles (California, the U.S.) 7. Varna (Bulgaria) 8. Buenos Aires (Argentina) 9. Copenhagen (Denmark) 10. Stockholm (Sweden) And here is how Travelers Digest rates the top 10 cities (does this sound to you like some pervy uncle?): ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by happysheep
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Was the chef on the Muppets the first TV chef? I don't know, but in the late 1970s he was a big hit. Wearing a toque blanche, raising those bushy eyebrows, and man-handling those utensils, the chef always seemed happy, singing along in Swedish ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by happysheep
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... surround the city, I took a day trip to Drottningholm Palace, built starting in 1662. Since 1981, this is the residence of Sweden's Royal Family, while the Royal Palace down town hosts the Royal offices where they work. How do you describe a royal palace? ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by charmedlife
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Ok des fois c'est moins l'fun les dortoirs... je me suis fait reveille en plein milieu de la nuit par une bande d'irrespectueux qui se pensaient seuls au monde! Ca parlait fort, ca criait presque. Des americains! Le croyez vous?! A part ca la ville est ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by jelg
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One of the main reasons for coming to Sweden was to visit the world's biggest IKEA store. After bumming around for the morning we headed out to try and catch the train out of town to the store. We found the station easily but then had a bit of trouble ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by eatdessertfirst
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Il y avait cette fille qui etait malade dans ma chambre a Amsterdam, elle m'a donne sa maladie!! Ce fut donc avec un mal de tete, de la fievre et un nez bouche que je quittai Amsterdam. La maladie me ralentissant un peu (je me suis perdu 2-3 fois aussi ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by jelg
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Having our bus to Oslo organized and thinking we'd still not seen much of Stockholm we decided to attempt the walking tour in the guide we had. Of course we missed a couple of turns and eventually gave up following its directions. As always we had good ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by eatdessertfirst
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... again. I'd been checking the weather forecast to see if it would be snowing - I really wanted it to snow. But apparently Sweden had had an unusually warm winter. Our mate, Jessica, said she had been performing regular snow dances to encourage it but it ...

A travel blog entry from Gothenburg by lucinate
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... and natural attractions can be enjoyed to their fullest. Watch out mate! Malmo is at the extreme south of Sweden, facing Denmark across a pretty narrow stretch of water that separates the Baltic and North Seas. No doubt a busy waterway both ...

A travel blog entry from Malmo by technotrekker
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... things Aussies do... After drinking three or six of my home brew VB, snow-chilled early on Australia Day in Sweden, I couldn't think of anything better to do than participate in a crazy Norse health tradition passed down through generations of sauna- ...

A travel blog entry from Australian Tax Free Zone - Sweden by technotrekker
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Wednesday Whilst waiting in Budapest airport for our flight to Copenhagen we overheard someone talking about some painted monasteries in Romania (that we wanted to vist), so we turned to ask some questions and were faced with a japanese looking man ...

A travel blog entry from Viken by lucinate
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Hi guys, Profuse apologies for not posting for a week. Sweden has been a bit of a whirlwind so far (blizzard would also be an apt description) and I seem to have done so much in this time that I haven't written a bean, which means I have to write a ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by technotrekker
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Stockholm is a pretty city, but I didn't find it amazing. I enjoyed catching the ferry around to some of the small islands. The old town 'Gamla Stan' was cute, but very touristy. The changing of the guards at the Royal Palace was a highlight as it is ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by aussierach
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The cruise through the archipelago is awe inspiring and what I presume the Queen Charlotte Sounds in NZ would have looked similar to had it not been so foggy!  All the summer cottages look like heavenly retreats from the city to come and the ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by madman96
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... origin. Hence the large bodily frames, blue eyes and blonde/red hair found in these regions in more modern times. Nowadays Sweden is very politically experimental and progressive, invariably seen as a 'neutral' country and who often act as mediators in ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by technotrekker
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... some cash we jumped in their car (sadly a VW not a Volvo) and shot off towards Stockholm. Well what an introduction to Sweden!! Within 5 minutes we were being diverted off the motorway by a police road block guarding a car on fire on the bridge! For the ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by rbisset
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To view larger versions, click the Photo Album or Slideshow links above this text. cheers! Old Rossian Proverb If you're not the lead dog, the view ...

A travel blog entry from Kiruna - Arctic Circle by technotrekker
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... far longer than i meant to with the Vasa I didnt have much time left to check out Skansen - nearby "village" of old style Sweden buildings plus Scandanavian Animals! So i busted it around there and didnt look at much and made my way to the animals and saw ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by itsem
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... . After another huge night and with a rocking hangover there was only 1 thing left to do on our last day together whilst in Sweden. Home cooked Swedish Meatballs. If you are ever in Sweden and you run into Emma's Mum beg her to make her home cooked ...

A travel blog entry from Gothenburg by jrcormack
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... allowed to inspect parts of the complex throughout the year and the winter snows seem to add to the grandeur. This is one of Sweden's twelve World Heritage sites and as you can see by the scenery, it's well deserved. We did a tour as well, in ...

A travel blog entry from Munso by technotrekker
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... back in central Australia. Northern European (and no doubt North American) moose certainly qualify, although the population in Sweden must be culled each year to keep numbers down meaning they aren't having any trouble surviving these harsh conditions. ...

A travel blog entry from Stockholm by technotrekker
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