Archive for the ‘stockholm’ Category

We received a pretty fabulous wedding present: a helicopter and speed boat ride, a robocopter! Or maybe they call it ribocopter. Whatever, it was awesome. The boat ride was an hour and the helicopter ride was around 20 minutes. It definitely could have been longer! Here are photos, be jealous. It fits a house! The [...]

There is one beauty you can never tire of in Stockholm: the view. Despite it being a relatively flat city with low height buildings, there are a few buildings that stand tall in the city and lend a beautiful view. It does not matter if you come in the wintertime, summertime, fall-time, springtime or depressing [...]

Fall is here. Obviously, the nights are chilly and the daytime temperature is on a rollercoaster. Today is a sunny and beautiful day, almost summertime but with jeans and light sweaters. Since fall and winter in Sweden mean depressing, cold, dark times, there are a lot of things to do in the city. If you [...]

For once, it wasn’t me. Cue the song. I didn’t have anything to do with the Dagens Nyheter article called ’51 skäl att hata Stockholm’ – 51 things to hate Stockholm. Now I know I have written about what I hate about Sweden, more things to hate about Sweden, what I love/hate about Stockholm and [...]

If you are a color fanatic then ColourLovers is the best website ever. It’s porn who people who love paint swatches. While I was doing research, I decided to see how many lovers made color palettes called Stockholm. Boy, were there color palettes that attempted to describe the city. Story of a crime… Intruding into [...]

Today is the last day to buy the tunnelbanan monthly card (månadskort) for 690SEK. Tomorrow, September 1st, SL will raise pass prices to 790SEK. SMS and machine tickets (zone 1) will rise to 36 kronor. Get your pass now before the SL becomes even more expensive to travel by metro in Stockholm. Ugh!

The Stockholm Tourist put together a fabulous short guide to restaurants closed in the summertime in Stockholm. He included all the Michelin star restaurants along with the top spots in the city. I added in another dozen restaurants that are also closed. There are many more restaurants closed for the summer so be aware before [...]

I’ve come to the point in life where half the time I love Stockholm and half the time I hate Stockholm. Okay, maybe there are days when I hate Stockholm more than I love. But hey, no one said I was a lover not a hater. After nearly three years here, I’m finally making a [...]

It’s pretty obvious that Stockholm is an expensive city. It’s the capital, the largest city in the country and the nordic region, and the “capital of Scandinavia.” But if you, like 24% of Swedes live in Stockholm county, you’re in for some serious spending and judicious savings. I thought I would break down my cost [...]

It’s Snowing in May

3, May 2011

It snowed today in Stockholm. It is nice to have rain to wash away the dustbowl on the streets, but snow is a little extreme. Started in October and still going strong in May. Thanks Andrew for the photo. PS- And two weeks ago we were grilling!


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