Radisson SAS Arlandia Hotel Stockholm

... because no architectural records or drawings of ships existed in Sweden or in all Scandinavia prior to 1670. Now the Vasa Ship Museum offers a look at the workmanship and design of early Swedish ships. 95% of the ship is built of its original oak, and it is said that 40 acres of timber were felled to construct it. The Vasa is so well-preserved because the Baltic Sea is brackish, with nearly no oxygen, salinity, nor wood-destroying ...

... drinkable here so bought a big litre bottle so that we can refill... of course, being the little Asian that I am, I found one that was only 2 SEK!!! Other places were selling them for 20 SEK (3.33 CAD). Walked all the way to the Cultural Centre and found that they'll be having a Cultural Festival from August 11 - 16. Yeah!!! Went into a bunch of 7-Eleven stores (there's lots here) and asked about the local SIM ...

We arrived in Stockholm after an all night ferry trip from Helsinki. This had been a 19 hour trip, and as a condition of the ticket, a cabin was compulsory. Our cabin was the cheapest we could get, and turned out to be far more comfortable than we expected. It was a fairly small room with two bunkbeds which folded out of the walls, a small coffee table joined to the wall.... and a coathook. It did have a tiny toilet and shower though, and was probably more comfortable than the ...

... I think our memories fooled us a bit when we tried to remember how long it took to get to the city centre of Dublin from the airport... so we arrived at the airport after a long city bus ride with tons of traffic.. about 8 minutes after check in closed. There was not anything they could do for us, and there were not anymore flights to Norway today, so we switched our flight to Stockholm! We arrived here without any problems, and we found ...

... ready to start the day. Around 8:45 we both left to walk to the G.E. Facility. It was about a 5 minute walk to G.E. from our apartment. While Jon was busy working away - I walked to a grocery store about 10 minutes away from our apartment. It was rather difficult deciding what to make and then finding the ingredients. I bought a can of meatballs (I was trying to buy meatball sauce), canned peas (they were hard not squishy), milk, mayo (which the initial ...

... turned out to be a very cool (and very hetrosexual) man. The first five minutes were all small talk and then he got straight in to making sure that both myself and benny were single and liked beer. With positive answers to both questions a big grin appeared and he said "good, you'll be coming out with us tomorrow tonight then". So come tomorrow night benny and I rock up to his house at 10pm with a little Bacardi in a coke bottle and, having not slept ...

... s apartment, just a short ten minute walk to either Kristine and Jocke's or downtown. The apartment is rather large with a completely renovated kitchen...which I admire from afar but will most likely not experience up close and personal. Some things never change. I start work in the afternoon so I am online during the usual office hours in the U.S and work until around ten or eleven in the evening.

... de choses sur la vie des marins de cette epoque. A chaque fois qu'un navire de guerre quittait le port, un tier des marins allaient tomber sous le feu enemi, un autre tier mourrait des epidimies qui faisaient rage a bord et seulement un tier allait revenir a la maison. Pas facile la vie de guerrier au 17ieme siecle!!! Fait amusant: les marins buvait toujours de la biere car elle etait plus facile a preserver en barils que l'eau... ...Ou est-ce que je signe? LOL. Andre.

... was outside having a smoke break. So after dancing around a little and trying to make new friends, which proved impossible since I was one foreigner going into groups of two, I made my exit to the hotel with a stop off for a nice kickling kebab i brød. Delicious. Next thing I find is I am at home listening to music, playing mario brothers trying to beat that next level, and drinking from a bottle of grey goose. In retrospect, that was kinda sad, but I ...