Hotel Concordia - Lund

... to building a community. lund is very much a university town. students make up about half of the town's population. it's a very old university. since it was a religious centre, there's been a place of 'higher' education there since the early medieval period. the university was established in the late 1600s after sweden gained the region from denmark. it's interesting that the region, skane, has been swedish for a long time ...

... explained that the group the cops were trying to "protect" were actually Nazis who were here to do some sort of demonstration/rally. (Around here they call them manifestations/demonstrations), and everbody else gathered round were ****** off left-ists who wanted the Nazis to go home. Whoa! Nazis and Left-ists fighting eachother like 50 feet away from me (and 7 floors down), in the year 2008, in Sweden! Who knew! Apparently, November 30th is ...

OK, no pics this time just a small rant...there - I've warned you ahead of time. So yesterday I had this relatively important group presentation to give in one of my classes. It went fairly well, and at the end there was some talk about how the class time and place for the next lecture had changed (again). Remember how I told you Lund challenges students to actually make it to their classes on a regular basis? Well...they got me (again). After the ...

Ok, so the first two weeks of school have passed by, and now the assignment due dates are coming up, so I figured I better take some pictures of my 'hood while I can. Basically, I just walked around town in a circle, so all of the things in these pictures are about five minutes away from my house or less if I walked straight to them. So the pictures and the captions will speak for themselves. (Although the light was kind of ...

... in the middle of the day and waking up raring to go at around 3 or 4 in the morning. Lame. Anyway, tonight my corridor had a family dinner together. We had five bottles of red wine, and a bottle of Martini to drink. Yes, that's right - Martini is actually a liquor (vermouth) that the drink is named after as it is the signature ingredient. (a side note: I have met my people - dinner with five bottles of red wine ...

... The sauce was a little bit sour, but yummy. Dessert was a dense, coconut/chocolate tart with almonds. Way too sweet! A very good lunch, though everything still could have been improved slightly. The value was great; smorrebrod elsewhere probably would have cost an extra $3 or 4 CAD. I might have to come back and try some other smorrebrod. I went back to Kungshallen to eat the lunch - they also have a kid's jazz festival to go ...

... in Berlin, my bags were again missing in action (of course). I waited until all the bags arrived and were picked up by others until there were no bags left. I walked over to the lost baggage area pretty disappointed but the lady gave me good news and found out that my bags came in on an earlier flight. Good job SAS. Air Canada could learn from them. To get my bag, I just had to walk across a few terminals to find the luggage depot. This luggage depot was in the dungeon ...

... in the way the whole Denmark is. But for someone who descended from the north and saw other, even more understated Danish settlements, just as I had, København looked like a beauty who puts on just enough make-up to render herself utterly irresistible, and yet stops well short of losing the measure of good taste. The way I see it, København, along with entire Denmark, is Europe at its best. History, tradition, small-scale and a subdued, but eventually unmistakeable wealth ...

... reservedele med ud til baaden, skoent de fyldte en smule er det jo dejligt at vide at der bliver passet godt paa baaden. Inden at vi sagde farvel til familien naaede vi lige at faa noget at drikke paa den nyaabnede Starbuck's ude i lufthavnen, det er lidt sjovt at se noget saa aerkeamerikansk i Kastrup lufthavn.

... said to take the A+ line, but it somehow took me forever to figure out which way was downtown, and then to figure out that I could take either the A or A+ train. By the time I figured everything out, I had missed two trains, and the third train was just closing its doors and leaving. I laughed to myself and decided to take a picture of myself, alone on the platform. When I checked to see how the photo turned out I noticed there were lights in the background... and I ...