I can now leave the country!

Now I am free to leave Sweden when I want. A nice woman at the British Embassy in Stockholm called and told me my passport was ready. Thats super fast and great news for me, it means I can travel to business meetings in Finland next week.
I was rather touched this morning to see a [...]

May Day and Valborg

Sweden has a Bank Holiday on Thursday for May Day and on the Wednesday evening the Scandinavians celebrate Valborg..
V
alborg is celebrated in Sweden in  ways, always depending on the part of the country. Lighting large bonfires is a popular celebration in eastern parts of Sweden like in Svealand or Uppland, where people gather material for [...]

Revolution on the Streets of Stockholm

It seems the Social Democrats are holding a rally and march in Stockholm on May 1st. I saw a poster today on the tube advertising it, they must be spending a fortune on this ‘bli supporter’ campaign. Now the Socialists marching on May day is old hat, the revolution I am talking about is the [...]

Learning Swedish with the British Secret Service

I am always looking for inventive ways to learn Swedish.
I am a big James Bond fan and have all the DVDs, so I have decided to watch each one with Swedish subtitles. Of course buying the Swedish voice dvds would be better but expensive. Once my Swedish is a bit better I intend renting more [...]

A touch of the Charlie Kennedy in Stockholm

Stockholm named a new Mayor today, Sten Nordin will take over the reins from Axen Olin. Both are from the Moderate Party who took control of the City in 2006.
I had never really heard of these politicans until recently. What struck me though was first of all that Ms Olin was the second female Mayor [...]

Strangely warm in Stockholm

 
Stockholm has been enjoying some great weather this week. My thermometer reached the early twenties yesterday.
What is remarkable is the change in the city and it’s people. Tables have appeared from nowhere in front of pubs, restaurants, bakeries, cafes and kebab houses. Its great to see people sitting out in the sun and enjoying the [...]

Hammarby at Söder Stadion

I know you are all dying to know how my first Swedish match went…well…on the football side let me just say that had I been watching on the telly I probably would have switched over after twenty mins. But on the atmosphere side I was really impressed!
The Hammarby or ‘Bajen’ fans are probably one of [...]

SöderStadion

Interested to read that Hammarbys’ Soder Stadion was voted the 11th best ground by Setanta Sports.
I am never sure how they can work these things out, its very subjective ah well my trip to Soder will be interesting tonight!

Green Sweden

One thing that really impresses me in Sweden is the fact they take their environmental responsibilities very seriously.
They are very keen and make it easy for people to recycle. I dont think I posted these photos of my bins, almost as exciting as the laundry room photos
As you can see each bin is [...]

I am not allowed to leave Sweden for 2 weeks!

 
Yes its true folks, I have to stay here for the next two weeks and cant travel.
Don’t worry I haven’t broken any laws just that my passport needs renewing. In my line of work its so hard to get 10 working days where I wont be flying somewhere. I do have a trip to Helsinki [...]