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I had an amazing bus adventure this morning, my local bus taking around eight of us on an off the route tour. Stockholm is experiencing what is called “snow chaos”. It snowed so heavily yesterday most buses were cancelled. After work, I walked to the closest subway station, and got into the most jammed...
Is Julian Assange’s new best friend Ecuador a paragon of freedom, compared to Sweden, which he and his followers denounce? On its website, the American-based Committee to Protect Journalists writes: Ecuador not fit to champion free expression The Quito government’s decision to grant Julian Assange political asylum comes at a time when freedom of...
Here in Sweden we used to have a service called Brafilm, which, like Netflix, would send DVDs to your home. You could subscribe to having one, two, or three DVDs at home at the same time. This was great, as Netflix customers also noticed, before Netflix started offering streaming video. Eventually the Swedish company...
Last Saturday marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. He was born in his family’s then-summer house, here on the island of Lidingö. This is the statue “Raoul Wallenberg’s Deeds” at Lidingö Centrum, next to...
Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust during the last months of World War II. When the Red Army liberated Hungary he was arrested and taken away to die in a Soviet...
Sweden was the centerpiece of the Colbert Report on June 18. First of all, Stephen continues his campaign to take over the #sweden twitter account. He thinks he can do it better than people who actually live in Sweden: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Operation Artificial Swedener – Sweden’s...
I was a bit concerned about filing my Swedish income tax return this year. I’m going to be in France until around May 1, and the filing deadline is May 2. (You can ask for an extension but apparently it is typically only for a week.) But it took me less than a minute...
Meanwhile, today Radio Sweden reported on the growing popularity of turkey (a very non-traditional thing to eat) in Sweden.
Christmas decorations at Patisserie Christian, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Amazing decorations at a very nice bakery/cafe. Apparently located at both 12 rue de l’ Outre and 17 Place du Temple Neuf (it’s on a corner, where a street runs into a square) in Strasbourg. According to Archi-Strasbourg.org, the building went up in 1550. Some...
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