Sweden Stories


Stockholm

The train ride from Lund was about six hours. The train had internet and seating was comfortable, giving me a nice journey. I sure do not remember my train route to my destination. That was detail deserving short term memory. Stockholm is another beautiful place. But I read its struggles in the history. As life began, it was relatively peaceful unti...


Lund - South Sweden

Sweden; a country in northern Europe with a population of around 9 million. Stockholm, its capital has a population of 1.7 mil and it has a land area of 449,964, sq km or 173,732 sq mi. Stockholm is surrounded by Lake Malaren in the west and the Baltic Sea to the east. Sweden is a member of the European Union although they have their own currency. Same ...


SWEDEN: Land of the Really Really Really good meatballs

So after my weekend in Dublin, I flew to Copenhagen, Denmark to spend a week with Jenny (a girl that I worked in the hostel with in Jerusalem). She lives in the very south of Sweden (in a city called Helsingborg), so far south that you just drive across a bridge and you are in Denmark. Of course its about 7 or 8 minutes of driving across the bridge (it¡...


A fleeting visit

Stockholm My first trip to Stockholm will hopefully not be my last; not because I had such a great time there but rather because I didn’t, and I’m sure my first trip was not representative of what the city has to offer. I had been waking up at 3am each morning in Copenhagen since my arrival earlier in the week, so had no difficulty with getting prep...