Hotell Marieberg Kristinehamn

... against a backdrop of geriatrics who have spend their entire pension fund on a massive (non brand specific) Winnnebago. To complete the hippy make-over we finally adhered the sparkly "Purple Ohm" sticker (purchased last year in Ibiza) to the back of the van this afternoon next to the number plate. This complements the Green Earth sticker and the Toro sticker (that I suspect Sime and Sal put on her when they were travelling around Spain in Alahabama Whirlygig....aka Madam). To ...

... say for “smile” in the US. We said “Cheeze.” He then said that in Swedish you say “dynamite!”

In any event, the one hour experience with Nobel was most interesting as he took you through the various rooms in his private home and heard his story. Never did I imagine that coming out here to remote Sweden to a summer house that minutes away we would come to the heart of the ...

... for about 20 more minutes. Finally, they all came on the bus and we drove on. The day was hot!

At 6:00 PM I arrived in Karlskoga (meaning "Karl’s Forest") in Swedish and Paul Spenser picked me up. We drove out to his in-laws Engholm’s “Summer House” on the outskirts of town. The house is on a lake just off the main Oslo/Stockholm highway called the E-18.

It was great to see Kira ...

Hej Hej,

Forget your summer plans to Southern Europe. Just let it go. Sweden is the place to visit! This is a gorgeous country with lots of water, rolling farmlands, forests, and wide open spaces. You can enjoy much more than pickled herring if it's not for you. You have to occasionally remember that winter is another animal, but for a summer trip, worth a visit.

We used Ryan Air to make it up here, and then headed to the town of ...

For the past two nights I have been staying in Karlstad, about an hour by bus from Kristinehamn where I was camping. While here though I have been staying at a youth hostel close to the town centre. It was quite a sterile and empty place, and was obviously some kind of prison or military barracks in past days. The guy that runs the place must have been left over from those times as well. I'm wondering where all the tourists and happy holiday makers have gone, obviously it's back ...

... away on Friday - boring I know. Its really great here, everyone is happy and Swedish, unlike the grumps in Norway. There are cycle paths everywhere and it seems like everyone rides a bike even old people. I have visited some older areas with cobbled streets and cycled (I have hired a bike) out to a rune stone in a farmers field, which is just like a memorial thing that is ...

... to see, you can always find someplace new because the world is huge. As I said i've had the luck to see very many places in my life and i'm still just 19 years old. This year i've been to Dublin, Liverpool and London during spring. And the summer started off quite good as well as I went to Austria and Innsbruck with a friend and saw the Euro 2008, where we ...

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 fan-area where we can view the game between Sweden and Spain.

Snart är det dags att åka iväg! Som det kan märkas har jag kvar åäö vilket betyder att jag är kvar i kära kära Sverige! Har styrt upp det så att jag och Henke möts upp i Köpenhamn och om allt går som det ska ska vi vara i Amsterdam (weee!) runt kl 9 på tisdag ...

We have been living on an island for almost a month now. Today we woke up to 4C and thought that the time had come to leave. We still don't know if we are selling our hose in Florida NEXT week or not. I think realtors (real estate agents) are the tru evil on earth! How much pure **** can come out of ones mouth and still nothing happens?