Lilla Hotellet 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 ...

So, I think I will give this travel blog thing a try for all my friends who want to hear about what I've been doing, but don't necessarily want to bug with incessant emails all the time. I have been in Lund since Monday and am slowly adjusting to the time difference, which is nine hours ahead of pacific standard and six ahead of eastern...but six or nine hours doesn't make much difference, I still end up falling ...

... wiped out today! Then it was time for dinner - some more Chinese takeout. I can't say any of it has been great, but it's cheap and vaguely resembles Asian food. After all that MSG, I needed a coke - $3 CAD at the grocery store for a 500 ml bottle! I sucked it down while waiting in line for tickets to the Tivoli gardens. Picked a BAD line and waited forever, while seemingly everyone else that had arrived ...

... shrubberies. Several cities in Europe have parks that are decorated with trees cut into shapes. In Kings park they happened to be square, but sometimes trees are cut to be flat, round, triangular or whatever. In America I've seen people trim hedges into shapes, but I've only seen tree shaped trees. As the sun went down we returned the bikes and then went to the Absolut Ice Bar that was located just down the street in the posh "#27 hotel". The cover to get in was a bit steep, but it ...

... of the further motion of its own accord. Once someone or something acquires a name, people flock to it and pay to see it. Once you're there, you're in for an easy ride. The hard part was gaining the fame. But that's how it goes, I guess. Anyway, done with my duty and the pilgrimage to the Little Mermaid, having taken some rest for the continuation of my sightseeing, I stood up and now finally got to the Anglican church of Saint Alban and the Gefion Fountain. Much as I liked ...

Copenhagen is as cold and wet as Albania is hot and dry. Copenhagen is clean and crisp, whereas Albania is polluted and humid. Copenhagen is rich and expensive - Albania is poor and cheap. Both fun for a lot of different reasons. Jes and Patrick have a fabulous, light filled apartment close ...

... cost of the tour was about 5 Euro, and this turned out to be the cheapest beer we would find in all of Scandinavia! After Carlsberg we jumped back on the bus and were dropped off near Tivoli for our free afternoon. When we were dropped off it proved quite difficult to come to a group consensus on where to spend the afternoon. A large group of people wanted to go for pizza, and it didn't sound like they were that interested in doing too much sight-seeing ...