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Travel Blogs from Stockholm

How Swede It Is...

A travel blog entry by cathalchu

Dear all,

The first trip of the year takes me to Stockholm for Ireland's opening competitive match of 2013. It's cold here alright. Daytime temperatures hover around zero and at night it can drop to around -11�C. Snow is everywhere and many parts of the Norrstr�m River that runs through Stockholm are frozen over, and yet the paths and …

Stockholm, the first leg of the trip

A travel blog entry by jkach50

We made it to Stockholm after a short delay at Ohare and got downtown by riding a 60mph train. After looking like American tourists for a while, we dropped our bags at the hotel and went to the Vasa museum. It is a museum that features a ship that was built in the 1600s....pretty cool, and we got to eat Swedish meatballs at the museum! Then we went …

Walk 'til you drop!

A travel blog entry by kyle-and-lisa

Interesting facts: Pedestrians have the right of way and cars will actually stop for them in crosswalks without lights. Lazagna has meat...just like it does everywhere in the world. Pizza has less cheese, less tomato sauce, and bigger toppings. Lisa needs a pair of walking shoes. Walking 3 miles takes 50 minutes. Today we walked, like the last two …

High ho, High ho it's off to school I go...

A travel blog entry by margogoes

... 6 until 8:30. Not a long course but a good opportunity to find out what it takes to learn a bit of Swedish!

I'm delighted to report that halfway through my course work I'm enjoying it very much. There are twelve students in our class. Three women, one from Estonia who is an au pair, another from Austria is a young mother, I'm the only American,. There are four Italians (two of them are architects, a Hungarian who works as a ...