A welcome little bit of France has arrived in Stockholm. I didn’t post much during our nine months in Strasbourg. I’ve now been back in Sweden as long as I was away (which seems amazing), and I should have taken…
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Despite the weather they turned on the Karlaplan fountain
Karlaplan, Stockholm. May 3 on the calendar, must be Spring (no matter what the weather is). It was warmer two weeks ago.
Winter Arrives in Stockholm
They’ve put up the Christmas tree at Karlaplan (and it snowed)!
Winter arrives in Stockholm
Why Do They Buy Buses Everyone Hates?
Stockholm has a great mass transit system, called SL, despite the annual problems when subway trains can’t handle the snow or the leaves on the tracks are the wrong kind for the commuter trains. But a few years ago, when…
eBookstores Not Ready for Primetime? No Nobel
Often when the Nobel Literature Prize is announced, I run down to the fairly large bookstore near work to see if they have anything by the new laureate in English. Sometimes they do, often the don’t. So I was looking…
Chinese Terracotta Warriors at Stockholm’s Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
Terracotta warriors from the tomb of the First Emperor, Qin Dynasty.
The line waiting to buy the iPhone 4
…outside the Telia store, Fältöversten, Stockholm, 8:30 AM, July 30, 2010,