Bengt Almquist wasn’t sure what the English word was that describes his vast collection of machines. “Gadgets?” Well, sort of. I’d say it’s more like a thousand assortments of things. At the Johanna Museet, he’s got walls full of typewriters, including models from the 1880s before they came up with […]
An automatic organ was just one of the amazing things we saw today at the Johannes Museet, a collection of thousands of machines, all arranged together. The museum is owned by Bengt Almquist, whose father was the original tinkerer and collector of the family. 41 secs Here is a video […]
This is one of things I love about Sweden. This tree is ablaze with small candles, cranking out a whooshing noise as they burn in the cold Swedish night. Next to the tree, there are three rows of at least 150 candles each, all burning and emitting that same pleasing […]
The 12 km Oresund Bridge connects Copenhagen with Malmo, and has helped the entire Skane region prosper with new jobs, new tourists and a new flexibility to travel. Many Danes live here in Skane where taxes are cheaper and commute over the long bridge to work in Copenhagen.
This little seaside fish market stall is where the locals find the freshest herring and salmon for their Christmas tables. “Hey’ means hello, and ‘tack’ means thanks in Swedish, as you can hear in this 39-second video.
Turn on the lights in Malmo! I want to put one of these into South Deerfield’s town common…do you think I can get the ok from the selectman?
Kent and I are holed up in our monk-sized rooms in the monastery, er, Hotel Rica in downtown Malmo. No, they’re ok, just kinda small after the cavernous chambers in Stockholm we called home for three nights. Today we noticed that the darkness, which succombed Stockholm at 3:30 pm, hit […]
No Swedish break is complete without some rich cake or cookie and the obligatory strong cup of Joe. Here we are sampling their cappuccino, and a cheesecake at a cafe in Stockholm’s SoFo area. This cake was redolent of lime, a teasing key lime sort of taste, and coffee was […]
Here is GoNOMAD’s connoisseur of travel, facing the cold winds atop an outdoor elevator in the city of Stockholm. We’re visiting Malmo this week, and you can read reports about our travels and the people we meet on this blog and on Kent’s Be Our Guest blog.
We’ve reached Malmo for the second half of our Swedish journey. Here there were only frosty hills, lots of green actually, and it’s a bit warmer than Stockholm. No snow to be found. As we glided to the airport on the Arlanda Airport 20-minute shuttle, I thought about how advanced […]
Here is what you see and hear as you enter this fantastically wild Thai restaurant in SoFo, one of Stockholm’s coolest neighborhoods. The green curry and baby back ribs were delicious!
Ylva da Silva showed us her hometown this morning. It was brisk, about 20 degrees, and we took off walking to a nearby underground station and then jumping aboard a city bus. We were headed to the Old town, on the island of Gamla Stan, one of fourteen islands that […]