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Crossing the border Posted by Stephen Maconi on Aug 10, 2011
Crossing the border from Canada to the United States is one thing. Crossing the border from Sweden to Norway and vice versa is very much another. Sweden and Norway have long had many different types of agreements to ease communications between each other. One of these agreements allows Norwegian citizens to enter Sweden freely and…
Photos from Nyköping Posted by Stephen Maconi on Aug 4, 2011
Nyköping is a city in Södermanlands län (Södermanland municipality), about an hour south of Stockholm. It is best known for the historical Nyköpings gästabud, or the ‘Nyköping banquet’, during which Birger Magnusson, the king of Sweden in 1317, locked up and starved his brothers Valdemar and Erik in the castle’s prison as revenge for previous…
Timbuktu – For the rest of your life Posted by Tibor on Jul 29, 2011
I thought it might be a good start for the weekend to give you a current Swedish favourite with some lyrics. The song is a humorously brilliant post break-up song by Timbuktu. He has been on the Swedish hip-hop scene for over two decades if not longer. And he is truly one of the most genuine…
Moment of Silence for Norway Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jul 25, 2011
Sometimes world events hit close to home. Just a few months ago, an attempted terrorist attack surprised Stockholm. Just this weekend a terrorist attack shocked Oslo. And the world. I am not a journalist. I am not going to pretend that this is a news report. As of right now, nearly one hundred people are…
Flying to Sweden Posted by Stephen Maconi on Jul 13, 2011
When you book your flight to Sweden, you should of course check the cheapest and/or quickest (depending on your personal preferences) methods of getting to your final destination within the country. Check online for the closest airports to your destination, or see if you can take the cheapest flight and ride a train the rest…
Beer in Sweden Posted by Marcus Cederström on Jul 7, 2011
Alcohol rules are a little different in Sweden. We knew that though. There is the state run Systembolaget which is the only outlet available for the legal purchase of any sort of hard alcohol or higher alcohol content beer. But that doesn’t mean you can’t buy beer in your average grocery store. It just means…
The logic behind Swedish noun gender Posted by Stephen Maconi on Jul 4, 2011
When you first start learning Swedish, the whole noun gender thing might be confusing. In Spanish and French, the gender thing makes sense since ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ correspond to human gender. In Swedish, however, the genders are ‘common’ and ‘neuter’. This does not mean Swedes aren’t male or female! 😉 Some nouns, as you may…