Monthly Archives: June 2022

Who’s getting invited to the party? The year was 1952 and, for the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics, a national capital would host the Games. As is often the case, there was some political controversy leading …

I’ll open this post with a reminder and a somewhat self-congratulatory comment. I want to remind you that the reason this section is called Nordic Cities and Me rather than Scandinavian Cities and Me is that Finland while Nordic is not …

In terms of area, Stockholm isn’t a very large city. At about 188 square kilometers, it’s just a tad larger than Washington, DC which measures 177 square kilometers. (For those who prefer imperial measurements, that would be about 72.5 to …

In 2015 I took an extended trip to Scotland and Scandinavia with a brief stop in Helsinki tacked on to the end of the trip’s schedule. Because I visited them all on a single trip and because of their geographic …

Often, in researching the topics I include in this blog, I unearth topics that inevitably take me down a path that eventually becomes informationally extinct. Sometimes vague traces remain in the archive of my mind and other times there are …