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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Taking Stock (holm): So much to see, so little time. Or, Vasa up, Doc?
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Since my stays in Copenhagen and Oslo also left me with “so little time,” you might wonder why I reserved that description for Stockholm. The city is so dense with museums – nearly 100 – that it simply makes sense. …
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How Sweden it is! – part 2
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Stockholm and Nobel. As it does in Norway, Stockholm’s city hall serves more than merely an administrative purpose. It sits along the banks of lake Mälaren – a 160-kilometer-long freshwater lake that stretches from the Baltic far to the west …
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How Sweden it is!
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Quick. Think of an island city with lots of canals. I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that the first city that came to mind was Venice, Italy. And with good reason. It’s the oldest, the showiest, the …
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And Norway we go!
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Good Tuesday morning! After eight days, we’re saying farewell to Norway. It’s a drive of about 120 kilometers to the Swedish border and 525 to Stockholm. Based on the roads, a stop to change our Norwegian kroner to Swedish kronor, …
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Bringing down the Lillehammer and closing the Norwegian circle
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Those of you who are, say, over 30 years old, possibly have some memory of the 1994 Winter Olympics that Lillehammer hosted. However, it’s probably not a stretch to say that my most vivid memory of that Olympics is quite different …
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