Monthly Archives: August 2015

Since my stays in Copenhagen and Oslo also left me with “so little time,” you might wonder why I reserved that description for Stockholm. It’s largely because Stockholm is so dense with museums – nearly 100 – that it simply …

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 …

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 …

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 …