Being Swedish, and Sweden being a popular tourism destination, I regularly get asked for recommendations on where to go, whether in a city or throughout the country. The issue? The people requesting recommendations usually want to “do Sweden” in about three days. I get it- vacation days, hard-earned travel funds, and limited points are precious commodities and the world is pretty big. So Sweden in three days it is.
Category: Sweden
The most anticipated part of my post-Christmas adventures in central Stockholm, or Stockholm City, were the seasonal lights and decorations around the area. This time of year, the sun is up from about 8/8:30 until 2:30, so the city lights are a major part of your experience in the late afternoon and entire evening.
Continue reading “Jul i Stockholm: Ljus och Dekorationer Runt Stan [Christmas in Stockholm City]”
English begins after the introduction
Idag var det ganska kallt men otroligt klart, soligt, och fint med lite snö. Från mitt hotell bredvid tåg stationen, Nordic C Hotel, så var det bara att börja vandra. Jag vandrade söderut mot Riddarholmen, Gamla Stan, Grand Hotel, och sedan körde till Djurgården.
From the central location of my hotel (Nordic C Hotel), a lovely stroll could get me anywhere I wanted to go. I walked south from the train station towards Riksdagen, and these are the places I revisited: Continue reading “Uttlandsvensk i Stockholm: Gamla Stan, Djurgården, Riddarholmen”
Eftersom jag är i Sverige kör jag på svenska. When in Sweden, blog in Swedish. An English synopsis is available below.
Min första dag i svenska luften började tidigt just var Sverige o Norge möter- 10 tusen meter upp i luften. En timme senare, kl 8, landade jag hos Arlanda med en dag av tåg och vandring framför mig.
Från Arlanda C så åkte jag till Uppsala med en fin utsikt på en strålande vinter dag. Över sommaren 2012 så studerade jag i Uppsala lite grann, så det här var en chans att komma tillbaka till gamla trakterna. Gatorna, butikerna, nationerna, och sevärdheterna som domkyrkan och så vidare var som gamla vänner. Forum gallerian och St Peter Gallerian var extra goda gamla vänner eftersom de har fri wifi. Continue reading “Utlandssvensk i Sverige: I Uppsala Igen [Back to Uppsala, Sweden]”
Midsummer is a celebration on one of the longest days of the year. While it is and has historically been celebrated through most of Northern Europe, the Swedish midsummer is, well, uniquely Swedish. Uniquely Swedish things seem to fascinate non-Swedes, inspiring things from the very popular “Swedish Midsummer for Dummies” video (an excellent multimedia supplement to this post) to an original NBC TV series premiering in the US on July 10th.
This past weekend, all of Sweden and Finland (and several other countries as well) celebrated midsummer. I had the chance to teach some of the quirks and intricacies of celebrating midsummer to some of my closest non-European friends, and it inspired me to write a travel blog post this week. Here’s a selection of things you don’t want to go to midsummer without, whether you’re celebrating in Sweden, NYC (the biggest organized midsummer celebration outside of Sweden apparently), or elsewhere: Continue reading “Midsommar: Swedish Midsummer”
anchored & adrift 