Spotted this Batmobile replica in front of the Hilton Slussen last week. It was stunning! Certainly beats the raggare cars floating around the city with hillbillies driving them.
Enjoy the pictures!
Leif Garvin built the replica car. It took him over 20 000 hours of work and $1 million to finish it. The engine is an 460 Ford big block V8, 700 hp and it’s built on a 1973 Lincoln Continental.
These are high dynamic range photos (HDR) compressed from 5 photos using Photomatix. Turns into fantasy like Batmobile photos.
I love Eurovision. After months of torture on national television to vet the “best” singer/group to represent their country, it culminates into a three night debacle of entire Europe fighting for the top song rights.
This year, Sweden had a massive train wreck. It was so bad that voters killed the Swedish singer, Anna Bergendahl, with the song, This is My Life. Definitely her life but not the life European voters wanted. Maybe she was not that bad, but in a contest where text message voters determine the best of the train wreck to the worst, we’re [...] Continue Reading…
As Sweden gears up for the Royal Wedding between Crown Princess Victoria and douchey looking Daniel Westling, plenty of scandals surround the wedding.
First up, Daniel had a kidney transplant last year therefore his health is poor now. Supposedly. If he says he’s ready for the wedding, so be it.
Next annoyance is that Swedes are feeling less inclined to pay for the wedding. While the Swedish media exclaimed, “all the hotels in Stockholm are booked!” the reality is different. I searched on Expedia and several top hotels are available during the wedding weekend. No [...] Continue Reading…
The wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling is less than a month away on Saturday June 19th. For Sweden, this is akin to the late Lady Princess Diana’s wedding to Prince Charles. Crown Princess Victoria will inherit the throne from her father King Carl XVI Gustaf. Oh, and daddy will walk her down the aisle.
For Stockholm, it means two weeks of partying and events for the city in the amorous events of Love Stockholm 2010. The two week celebrations begins on Swedish National Day, June 6th and concludes on the day of the [...] Continue Reading…
I love cooking and one of topics readers wanted covered from the polling was more posts about cooking and different cuisines.
Now that it is summer and the weather is great to cook lots of lovely food, I am going to be holding a few cooking classes over the summer for Indian food. If you love Indian cuisine from the restaurants (the few, the proud, the delicious), learning to cook that same kind of food at home is easy.
Truly, Indian cooking is easy once you master the basics and understanding of the spices.
What I’m [...] Continue Reading…
Just a quick post about nothing related to Sweden (unless Arlanda airport is deserted) but of our nordic country neighbor Iceland.
I came across some more amazing video and photos gathered from the volcano region in southwestern Iceland and have to share them with you. There is also a large collection of photos of the volcano posted last month.
This video is from Sean Stiegemeier who flew to Iceland on his own to capture this video. Music is from Jónsi – Kolniður.
In the video there’s a clip of a famous airplane in the middle of nowhere. [...] Continue Reading…
It’s that time of year again when the flowers are blomming, birds are singing, and Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Agency) is awaiting the tax returns of its citizens. And the real irony? Filing taxes is easy. Indeed!
In April, you should have received your Deklaration statement (on pastel yellow paper). It will tell you how much income, capital gains (from stocks/shares) you have that’s officially listed. From this information, Skatteverket tells you how much you owe to the government or if lucky, they owe you.
If you don’t own other shares, houses, or have deductibles then [...] Continue Reading…
Today is Valborg, Walpurgis night, in Sweden. An unofficial holiday, followed by the official red day on First May, Valborg is celebrated as the welcoming of summer.
When you ask Swedes what Valborg is, the response is, “another day to party and drink.” And indeed it is. Valborg is typically celebrated with a champagne brunch in the park or outside and celebrations begin by the 30th afternoon.
In the evening, large bonfires are made to ward off the spirits and witches.
For the Swedes, Valborgsmässoafton is a pagan holiday but is well associated with Saint Walpurga who died on [...] Continue Reading…
As if Iceland needed to be in the news any more than it had in 2008 and 2009. When the rumors of a worldwide financial meltdown came to light in 2008, most people squarely blamed the small island nation in the North Atlantic Ocean called Iceland. Few people cared about the little country and even fewer ever visited the nation before then.
Soon after, Icelandic citizens were blamed for the world meltdown in the finance industry while failing to see the Wall Street gambling addiction. Iceland was just another catalyst in a series of [...] Continue Reading…
Update: Thursday, April 22st, 14.42 GMT+1
All major airports in Sweden are operating. This includes Stockholm Arlanda, Bromma, Göteborg Landvetter, and Malmö airports. Please check arlanda.se for flight information to ensure your flight is scheduled to take off or arrive into a Swedish airport.
Update: Wednesday, April 21st, 13.32 GMT+1
Information regarding flights by Ryanair:
(A) Southbound flights from Spain, Southern Italy, Southern France (Marseille), Malta and Morocco continue as normal today.
(B) All flights in Northern Europe (except flights between Ireland and the UK) to operate as scheduled from 05.00hrs Thurs 22nd April.
(C) All flights between Ireland and UK [...] Continue Reading…
