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Hej bloggarna! I’m really excited to announce a new project I have been working on to make life and visiting Sweden more awesome. Drumroll please… …! It’s called the Lost in Sweden Moosleter. I know there are so many of you fantastic bloggers out there. But, it’s hard keeping track of everyone and following through [...]
Sweden Gets Ready for New Banknotes & Coins
27, Apr 2012I love European money, well the Euro and the Kronar. They are colorful, different shaped banknotes for each denomination and usually have cute/bizarre images on the notes. Sweden has a colorful collection with dead people on the notes (you have to be dead – sorry Swedish Chef). But since the notes are 25 years old; [...]
- In: fun facts|news|scandinavia
10 Kilos of Chili Later
26, Mar 2012I am exhausted. Dead-tired beat. Beat dead-tired. Deadbeat tired. Something like that. After a full day of cooking with A on Saturday (epic photos below), we went to rock the Chili Experiment cook-off yesterday. That included four kilos of onions (that’s ten pounds), 12 cans of kidney beans, 25 chilis, 15 cans of tomatoes, and [...]
UPDATE: Feb 27, 15.30. Photos of Princess Estelle at four days old. Awww! UPDATE: Feb 24, 11.29. Her name is: Estelle Silvia Ewa Mary !!! What’s with the W spelling? I thought Swedish normally didn’t use a ‘w’ in the alphabet? Update: Feb 24, 11.19 The name will be release live today. In the meantime, [...]
- In: news|scandinavia
Just a thanks to you readers who supported our blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA. More than 4.6 million people signed the Google petition alone. And Twitter.com CEO Dick Costolo, said Wikipedia’s blackout is: “… just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.” Who’s foolish now poop head? Should [...]
A Call to All Awesome Bloggers in Sweden
12, Jan 2012Update, May 9th 2012: I started a Lost in Sweden Moosletter. It’s a monthly newsletter that has content from all around the Swedish blogosphere. Be sure to join it fellow bloggers. The first newsletter will go out mid June 2012. Hey bloggers! And bloggarna? I am updating my Blogroll and want to include all of [...]
- In: Living in Sweden|news
Swedish Butter Crisis Keeps Churning
6, Oct 2011Update: Sweden is out of the butter crisis, but Norway is lacking delicious spread. The comic Scandinavia and the World put the butter shortage best: There is a problem buying real butter, smör, at the grocery stores. Not Bregott, or Lätta, or some fake margarine that Swedes loves so much, real butter is nowhere to [...]
9/11 Ten Years Later
11, Sep 2011Tuesday morning was just like any other morning in my second year of college. I had an annoyingly early class at 8AM, albeit very fun – Hindi, followed by a full day of classes to end around 3.30PM. I normally would wake up around 7AM, do my hair and makeup, wear something stylish (something which [...]
Mouse on a Plane
27, Aug 2011Everyone has already made the snakes mice on a plane joke when last week, a little mouse was spotted on a SAS plane. The plane did not take off and the flight passengers were rerouted. No one was happy and people complained of waiting hours to be rebooked. That mouse. He probably has an Interpol [...]
- In: news
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