Listening to an Automatic Organ in Sweden: Video
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 […]
A Blazing Yule Tree in Malmo Sweden
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 Oresund Bridge: Malmo’s Secret Weapon
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.
Video: Choosing Christmas Herring in Malmo
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.
Park in Malmo–Who Turned On the Light?
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?
At the Nobel Museum, Listening to A Jerk on Tape
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 […]
Sweden the Home of the Filka, or Coffee Break
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 […]
Kentski, World Traveler and My Pal
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.