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Last night we had dinner in the home of a Swedish couple named Elin and Andreas. We took a taxi far out into the suburbs, (the driver didn’t know how to get there) and as the meter ticked and ticked, we finally popped out of the cab $44 lighter but […]
God Jul as they say in Goteborg, this is the Christmas video show that is projected on the massive wall of the Kunstmuseum. It is sound, motion and holiday cheer, and three times a night crowds stream up the main avenue to watch it.
In Goteborg, each Christmas season there is a video show, projected on the front of a huge building that faces the end of the main boulevard. It shows dancing elves, singing Irish lassies, and tinkerbell, and uses the indentations in the building as part of the show. It’s a huge […]
Babies, babies, everywhere in Sweden you see a parade of prams and the shuffling of tiny feet. Our guide Ingrid told us that they are seeing another baby boom here, so many young people are having children in Sweden. If our three-days so far give an accurate read, we’d say […]
I asked myself before we flew over here…is Scandinavia the world’s most expensive place to visit? Sadly for the tourism boards, it has been painted this way to Americans, but after three days here I would have to disagree. Here are some of the things we paid for and how […]
Sweden, more than any other place I’ve visited, really knows how to get into the Christmas spirit. That’s Christmas, not that lame ‘happy holidays’ we get back home. Today we got a chance to wallow in St. Nick, in this city of 500,000 that was founded back in 1621. We […]
We arrived in Gothenberg Sweden today, pretty jetlagged and happy to dive into our soft down beds at the Elite Hotel in the center of this seaside city. On the plane I was briefly thrilled to be able to get on the Internet using the soon-to-be-discontinued Connextion service by Boeing. […]
Today I am up early thinking about what I need to do before we fly tonight. We are going to Sweden for a week’s trip, visiting the city of Goteborg on the Western coast. I have not thought that much about this destination, letting the place just sneak up on […]
Barack Obama was in New Hampshire and coasting to the beat. Everybody was loving what he was saying, and he was quickly being annointed as the savior. At one point he was finished speaking, and he sought out columnist Maureen Dowd of the NY Times. “Hey you,” he said, wading […]
I traveled to NYC yesterday to go to lunch and a show with my beloved mother Valerie. While on the bus, I got a chance to read the NY Post and found a funny little anecdote about Christmas in Cindy Adam’s column and a troubling account about Jimmy Carter. “Lionel […]
Louis Hau writes on Forbes.com about something that baffles newspapermen and capitalists…a company that DOESN”T WANT to make big money. “Craigslist President and Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster isn’t nuts. He just sounds that way, particularly to anyone who thinks that the point of running a business is, you know, to […]
WOW the Boston Globe included a half-page article about the cafe in their Sunday Travel section. Featured in the photo prominently is Elizabeth Bagley, our barista who just returned from Amsterdam, where she traveled to write a story for the website. Diane Daniels had written about me before, during Kate’s […]