On Monday morning, I sadly said goodbye to Lise and headed to the train station. I figured out how to buy my ticket into the main station and then headed to platform 26 (all of the other platforms were from 1-about 15 and then jumped to 26). I kept hearing announcements for my train and how we should be boarding, but where I was standing there w...

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Decided to spend the day at Skansen today. Skansen is Stockholm's most popular tourist attraction; it's essentially an open air museum and a 'miniature Sweden'. Recommended by the guide books as 'essential' and by my trusty Swedish friend Jonna-Noe as 'random', I felt the need to go. Apparently the best way to get to Skansen is by the ferry whic...

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July 25 Lazy morning after such a great comfy sleep... after some preparation, Maria walked with us to the crossroad that bring us with local road to Jonkoping. Of course local road with scarce traffic isnt best but we stood there at the warm sun and wait. Its been long but its finally a young silent guy you picked us till the next village after...

My sister and I are cruising the Baltics. Yahoo! We're on the Radisson Seven Seas Voyager. It's gorgeous...only 700 passengers on this whole ship. We even have our own butler (to share with a few other cabins, of course). Debbie and I are at least 25 years younger than most folks on this ship. But no matter. Today we walked all over Stockholm be...

Jen, Anita and I caught the train into Stockholm. We changed lines so that we would be closer to Skansen. After a 10 minute we arrived at Skansen. Its an open air museum that represents architecture and the history of Sweden. We caught the cable car up the steep hill and headed to the zoo to see Scandinavian animals. We saw reindeer, elk, brown ...