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- Swedish Krona (SEK)
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- 8,875,053
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Sweden Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sweden
Living in a wee Zoo
This is a top pick! Only a few days in Goteborg with Chris' old school mate Phil, who we met in Sydney. We're sharing a flat with him and his girlfriend, a fiesty Rottweiler-Doberman cross that's just urinated all over the flat and a mad parrot that's currently sitting on ...
Rain and Bridges and Bears - Oh my!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Stockholms Final Farewell
This is a top pick! ... . Having already been in Stockholm two weeks ago I decided to jump on the ferry that night to Finland. The ride out of Sweden was sensational, sitting on the back of the ferry departing in a breathtaking sunset past all the islands and inlets. I have ...
Du er myckit Vacker (You are very beautiful)
This is a top pick! ... than the pretentious Spy-bar. F12 Stockholm is part of a huge archipelago of islands (roughly 25,000) on the east coast of Sweden. The next day we decided to catch a ferry to the main island Vaxholm which has a small fishing village on it. The ...
Umea... rhymes with Ikea and just as interesting
This is a top pick! Here's my thinking: I'm heading North with the ultimate aim of getting to Nordcap at the top of Norway, so why not get off the tourist trail a bit and visit a smaller town where theres good countryside and activities. Good idea, I tell myself and pick a ...
Malmo Schmalmo
This is a top pick! Perhaps I wasn't in the right mood for Malmo. Lovely city, beautiful park, pubs and restaraunts around, but no sign of adventure anywhere! I got a hotel room because the hostel was too far away and I needed a rest so that made meeting people a lot harder ...
MY TWO JOBS
This is a top pick! ... every morning. This earns me free housing and all the "sill" I can eat. Sill is a popular breakfast food here in Sweden. It comes in a jar. Basically, it's flimsy white cubes of herring meat, mixed in with black things that might be herring ...
SWEDISH HITCHHIKING SCAVENGER HUNT
This is a top pick! ... nothing creatures and Sweden didn't need them. It was going to be tough to keep my energy level up while hitchhiking in Sweden. I couldn't do a salt-water snorkel, because the harbour I'd come to was dirty and smelly. I caught only two more ...
SWEDES LOVE BICYCLES AND SNUS
This is a top pick! ... bit, so I simply hitchhiked Mary Poppins-style, hoisting an umbrella. Pine forests are virtually everywhere in underpopulated Sweden. I saw three mud-gray, stout-antlered moose chomping on grass during the last ride I hitchhiked. That ...
COWS IN THE FOREST
This is a top pick! ... ' shoulder and the difficulties of being a small-farm-owner had dampened his spirits and left him a little stressed-out. Sweden, unlike the U.S., has eight major political parties. Of course, it did seem "konstigt" that the leader of Sweden's ...
SARA LIDMAN
This is a top pick! In the Umeå city library, there's a display honoring a well-known Swedish author who died this year. The author is shown speaking at gatherings, holding up anti-weapons signs at protests, in foreign countries. She was quite old, probably in her ...
COMING AND GOING (THE LAST "HEJ DÅ")
This is a top pick! ... take the bad with the good. Unless, of course, you only take the good. Here come The Top 5 Best Things About Sweden!: 1. GENTLE AND SAFE - Most Swedes would never want to fight or hurt anyone. Most don't get road rage or swear angrily at ...
MY IRANIAN BOSS
This is a top pick! Hello, again, to everyone, from Umeå, Sweden. Hello from the apartment of Oumar. Oumar is a twenty-five-year-old smily extrovert from Senegal, Africa. He works with me, and I just began renting a room from him and two Swedish girls. Oumar ...
Burnt Jackets / Mean Soup
This is a top pick! ... in the sun, drinking wine and then set up a fire before cooking a mean vege soup and some severely burnt jacket potatoes. Sweden has been pretty fantastic in terms of accommodation as we have not had to pay for a nights accommodation since leaving Prague ...
SURSTRÖMMING, YUK!
This is a top pick! ... a "surströmmingsfest" (surströmming party) for fourteen people. Surströmming is a traditional fish meal eaten in the north of Sweden during summertime. Surströmming is flimsy, little, gray-blue fish which are put into a can and then stored like ...
ARCTIC EXCURSION
This is a top pick! ... -of-snow moutnains ran across the vast territory of landscape within vision. To the west hulked 6,700-ft.-tall Mt. Kebenakaisse, Sweden's tallest mountain, and its neighbors. A suffocating load of snow had been dumped on the wide, black mountains who ...
Le trio McDo
This is a top pick! Je suis maintenant a Gotenborg ou Gothenburg dependamment de la langue ... mon ordi est ultra slow donc je serai bref! C etait super beau Andalsnes en Norvege mais comme je l ai dis cetait tres tres cher et il faisait assez froid merci!!! ...
PARTY AT JOJO'S
This is a top pick! ... So, when he does go to clubs, he often spends the whole night trying to win at the gambling tables the nightclubs have here in Sweden. Jojo's friend, Jana, is the real "winner" type of guy. His blond head is perhaps wider than it is tall, and it ...
SWEDEN, ON RELIGION
This is a top pick! ... in a religion. There's a lot of pressure in the States for a person to accept faith in some God. One day in Sweden, Anders and I were taking a coffee and tea break when Anders received a visitor. The visitor was a young man with a short, neat, ...
FIRST SWEDISH SNORKEL
This is a top pick! ... a slow-paced story told by the piano, of a sweet and romantic and simple, but nearly-perfect life of one man. I visited rural Sweden this weekend. From the country's low, purple, salty-blowing coast on the Gulf of Bothnia, I rode a free ferry to the ...
UMEA TO SPAIN - PART I
This is a top pick! ... 'd been going my way ... Hopefully, I was going to come across more friendly people like that boy as I began hitchhiking out of Sweden last week in late September. The four-hundred-and-fifty miles south to Stockholm took me only nine hours. I was ...
Quick Assessment
This is a top pick! I've officially landed in Stockholm. This was the part of the journey I was most nervous about, as my plane didn't land until 22.00 and I had to get into a new city, at night, from the airport an hour outside town, and check in. Thankfully there was a ...
Shallow Wallet
This is a top pick! ... and waited for my hair appointment. Basically, my hair's reached the awkward stage between long and short, so I had to get in cut and Sweden isn't the cheapest country in the world, so there's more cash. Plus, I had lunch out today and that was even more. ...
Funny signs in SWEDEN
I wanted to add some pics of some funny signs from Sweden... Some of them are just plain confusing with all of the different characters and words, others are plain funny (like the car driving into the sea!) I still havent got a moose sign, but I will ...
GOD JUL FROM SWEDEN
... ;s sister and husband – Sharna and Chris. Magical. Sharna and Chris have come over to spend the Christmas week with us in Sweden. They have been here a couple of days already, ski gear hired, the first runs across the mountain in the bag. But before ...
Gävle- Off the boat
Somehow I managed to wake up extremely early the next morning, and stumbled down for breakfast. As we walked back up to our rooms, I saw a horrible horrible sight. As you would walk onto the boat, there are people there that take very rushed pictures of ...
Gävle- Sauna, Finnish style
I woke up extremely early this morning, to see the Sjökvists off as they left on their trip. I was under the impression that they wouldn't be getting back untill after I had left to go home, so I thought that this was going to be the last time that ...
Stockholm - občudovanja vredna ladja Vasa
Spala sem le dobre tri ure. Ko spiš, ničesar ne doživiš. Nekaj čez šesto sem bila že na palubi. Pa nisem bila dolgo sama. Tudi drugi so prišli uživat. Zrak je bil kristalno čist. Sonce je bilo že ...
Cool Runnings
It snowed last night here in the land of Modo, that's Sweden’s elite hockey club, where the Sedin sisters once played. This morning I awoke at the bright hour of 9:15am and decided that it was time for some exercise. Now, it snowed last night ...
Wonders of the Wasa Ship and two gammla people
... were then going to venture on to Skansen an old town (living museum) built out of about 150 buildings from all over Sweden, with a zoo, shops, restaurants and such, but after driving to the parking lot, putting the europa mobile in park we looked at ...