Karlstad
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Karlstad - Home of Bicycle Lanes and Quaint Houses
... . We had a nice time and saw a lot of interesting animals and exhibits. Sunday we went hiking by the lake. Karlstad borders the largest lake in Sweden and hiking trails abound in the area. Hanna had a birthday party to go to so this time we went with ...
finally located full strength beer!
... type T1/2, T25 or T4's). They all seem to be the retiree type vans or caravan and car set-ups. So Lizzie writes, we drove to Karlstad which is the capital of Varmland. A nice city by the lake and we did a spot of shopping at H&M and Lindex. We also ...
Abba's Sweden
... of Norway and Sweden to get our Tax refunds and exchange all our remaining NOK for SEK. By lunchtime we have reached Karlstad. Sweden didn't give me a good initial impression. While I waited to get off the bus in Karlstad, our fellow group member, ...
Awesome hidden village in Turku
... for a drink and some dancing. They found the song "Rock Around the Clock" in Fin quite amusing. We had to get up at 5 a.m. Swedish time to be ready for the buffet breakfast at 5:30 so not too much sleep that night. In Karlstad ...
Karlstad
Date: 04/12/2009 Location: Hostel in Karlstad Beers consumed to date: 1171 On Thursday we left Stockholm at 12.10pm. We checked out of the hostel and went to Central station only to find that our train wasnt listed on the screen. After some ...
The continuing adventures in Sweden
... who lives in Linghem, asked if we would come and visit. We were delighted with this invitation and on leaving Karlstad travelled to their town and were again given a warm welcome. Marianne prepared a lovely meal of Reindeer, which Shirley ...
Alternativ Jul 2011
ALTERNATIV JUL Ønsker du en alternativ julefeiring sammen med nye og gamle venner? Å oppleve aktiviteter, dans, workshops og varmende fellelskap i en blanding av gamle og nye tradisjoner ? I år er jeg programansvarlig for en Julefestival i ...
Sweden Yah!
... lot of fun and we had a great time. Finishing up our stay in the country, the Swedes took us just south of Karlstad to Kristineham where there is an enormous Picasso statue looking out over the water. We mostly took it easy and wandered around ...
A necessary few days in one place
... worked as a waitress in Karlstad in the 18th century. Her sunny disposition earned her the sobriquet "Sola i Kallista" (The sun in Karlstad).I discovered this later in the city map's points of interest. Tonight, we will opt for an evening in instead of ...
Just found this travel blog
... kind of things so lets see how this ends up:) Right now i'm not out travelling, i'm sitting in my parents flat in central Karlstad where I just found this blog while playing Traveler IQ Challange on facebook, so i thought, what have i got to lose? ...
Two nights in Karlstad
... who sat next to me at the concert, we had a good chat about the history and whatnot of the Karlstad/Kristinehamn area and similarities between Norway-Sweden relations and NZ-Aus relations. I was jealous that he lived in Sweden. Back to Norway now. In ...
The start of an adventure
19 minutes past midnight and we are leaving Karlstad by a bus that is taking us to Örebro, where we'll change to another bus that will take us to Stockholm Skavsta Airport in Nyköping. In about 17 hours we'll hopefully be in Innsbruck in some pub or ...
Karlstad
We got to Karlstad in Sweden on 17 September to spend some time with our friends Lynn & Fredrick. On the way from Norway to Sweden we noticed a change in scenery - the forests, lakes and rivers were all so different to what we'd seen in Norway. We got ...
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