Sweden!!

The book I'm reading at the moment is set in Sweden and I realized that I've always been kind of obsessed with going there one day. So, this thread is for all things Swedish.

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Points in the body of a Swedish God

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i dig on sweden

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Max, where you there or somewhere else in Scandinavia or am I imagining that totally?

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x-post *were*

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http://www.geocities.com/ingridbergman4/ingrid_bergman.jpg

sweden's kewl, you're always close to Norway

My gf is a Swede. She's great.

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ya erica, my gf got a grant to go do some research there last year and i accompanied her. we spent a week in stockholm and a night in gothenburg; both places are incredibly beautiful (gothenburg in particular) and filled with good-looking english-speaking swedes. everyone is very nice. the food is surprisingly good. everything is very expensive though.

ari is currently learning how to speak swedish--she wrote her senior comps on swedish furniture design in WWII. she knows more about sweden than i do.

you should read the sjowall and wahloo martin beck novels and also the henning mankell kurt wallander books. all very good swedish mysteries.

http://www.ica.org.uk/thumbnail.php?max=408&id=2875

actually check out the BBC wallander series w/ kenneth branagh too for an extra dose of beautifully-photographed northern sweden i just watched a couple last week and really dug em

Wow, that must have been amazing. It's pretty much at the top of places I really really want to go. Oooh - thank you for the recs! Will check all that out.

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can i just say i love sweden

i would really like to go there, doesn't everyone think that? is it the most-coveted nation in the world?

The chorus is basically "all who don't dance are rapists"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yexeBCx7oow

second most coveted, after Norway

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfU-4Y4_akY

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SEMLA!!!

^^lol know that guy

xpost not nina persson sadly

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How good does that semla look? Want.

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Oh sorry those beautiful fjords belong in the Norway thread, not the thread about mere sweden

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Totally, it needs to be in a tray full of milk/cream, though.

Listen iiiijjjj I'm into Norway too tbh but this thread is for SWEDISH things only, capiche?

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typical swedish hookers

The gf's hometown:
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^^ Awesome.

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an acquired taste, to say the least:
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Dinner time - exploration of all things Swedish tbc . . .

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My grandfather's family were from Gothenburg. Du talar Svenska?

http://www.sweden.se/upload/Sweden_se/english/articles/SI/2007/Astrid_Lindgren/pippi_longstocking.jpg

We never ate lutefisk on Christmas. This is why:

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I may be beyond comprehension.

Jack tycker om Sverige, det finns bättre musik och vänligare människor där.

"Jack" = "jag", sorry.

Martin Beck series seconded
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er, holy shit. sorry

what the hell is this

http://tv4play.se/nyheter/lokala_nyheter/ostersund?videoId=1.1100029

you can skip to the middle. it's Sweden's Water Fairy of the Year contest? men get together in a creek, and play instruments, naked, for the title of Water Fair of the Year

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huh at home we just called that "friday night"

max honestly i don't understand

the same guy has won for like over a decade

According to the description, it's the 15th annual contest to find the "Näck" of the year. "Näck" is a creature in Scandinavian folklore who's kinda like a satyr or troll or fairy, except that he inhabits a lake. Essentially he's the spirit of the lake, but he's not always benign, so he can make people drown and stuff.

i mean... does that make it any less bizarre?

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...yeah my guess is that last dude isn't from Sweden. Sorry.

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I used to work with a bunch of Swedes, and along with being well-dressed, good looking and mostly dead friendly they all staved off nicotine craving in the (non-smoking) workplace by sucking on snus (ie. tobacco pouch things) all day. There was even a ritual sharing round of the snus in the morning as work started.

This in combination with the beauty of the country, much of what's been referred to upthread, and recently Fever Ray has led to me holding Sweden and its inhabitants in very high esteem.

good god, wallander had a bad week.

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i think i wanna go to norway more

they got all the mountains

i've gotten interested in sweden again. i heart this thread :D

Bork bork bork

Riots grip Stockholm suburbs after police shooting

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/19/sweden-allows-public-masturbation/

would they say it is två tusen tjugotvå ?

I am going to Sweden next week

My first ride on an airplane since the before times

Where you going?

What book was I reading set in Sweden in 2009 that made me start this thread!?!

Still have not been but it's on my ever growing list.

It was definitely Let the Right One In.

Where you going?

I don't really know 100%, but I'm leaning towards this long distance hiking trail, walking a few sections; I'm bringing a rucksack with sleeping bag, tarp etc.

https://www.roslagen.se/en/roslagsleden

Okay, the long distance hiking part didn't really work out as I almost froze to death the first night out, alone in a forest with no water.. I retreated to Stockholm for the balance of the trip and I'm 100% glad I did (amazing system of rural bus stops, so you can get almost anywhere without a car)

I'd never been before but I was really impressed with the city as a whole... things were not as expensive as I expected and the weather was just glorious. The parks are amazing, and I would be thoroughly satisfied just wandering the canals and waterfronts, looking at old boats and stopping for a cold beer now and again

I expect I'll return next year, and maybe visit some other places besides Stockholm... my grandparents were part of the big emigration so I imagine I still have some family there as well, though that might take a little research. Overall a great and relaxing trip, and evidence that robust taxation can actually improve life as a whole

I saw that route you posted beginning at Danderyd, a place I've passed many times on the bus between Stockholm and the archipelago, and I think you did the right thing focusing on Stockholm this time. It is so beautiful and rewarding.

I'm going to Sweden in July. Starting in Stockholm and going wherever else I can take a train to. It'll be my first real vacation since the pandemic. Super-stoked!

That's awesome.. I think I'm going back in June as well. I mostly lurked around Stockholm last June, but I want to visit Gothenburg and maybe some other rural places

A guy I met in a bar in Stockholm crafted me a cool day trip, taking a ferry out to an outer island in the archipelago where his family owns a restaurant.. I wasn't able to make it last trip, but I intend to try next time. (But it could be a horror movie, and I'm the one on the menu!)

So ^^^^ I want to go back to Stockholm in June, but an old friend has invited me to Amsterdam, where I've never visited (he lives/works there, but is from California). When I tried add a third city to my itinerary, like San Francisco>Stockholm>Amsterdam, the price goes up exponentially, almost a thousand dollars.

Does anyone have experience with booking a quick RT flight while over there? I'm thinking RyanAir, EasyJet, something like that.. I've heard about really cheap fares for these kind of shuttle flights, but have no personal experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvrp7zaZq0o

If you time it right, you can fly from STH to Amster with Norwegian for less than 100 USD

https://www.norwegian.com/uk/

Thats probably your best bet.

Another alternative is Stockholm - Charleroi. Flights in June are $32 each way with Ryanair, and Charleroi Airport has a direct bus to Amsterdam (3 hours duration, 8 a day)

And that bus is $10

Thanks for the tips - I've already booked the RT flight to Stockholm, trying to decide if this Amsterdam side trip is worth the trouble

Elvis Telecom, how was your trip?

I was back in Stockholm & Gotherburg in June - Stockholm was sunny & glorious, Gburg was a little chilly and everything felt like it was under construction

I will be in Stockholm for 10 days soon, pretty stoked. a little overwhelmed trying to figure out all what we want to see/do. We’ve got an archipelago cruise booked and a few other things.

You'll have fun no matter what you do... make some time to wander around Södermalm (away from the touristy stuff) and the island of Djurgården has a lot to do, including the Skansen Park/Museum, which is really cool

I just like wandering around the water and looking at old boats, stopping for a beer or hot dog here and there, pretty unstructured.. I get kinda bored in formal museums

(A cruise sounds awesome though)

That all sounds great, thanks Andy :-)

Elvis Telecom, how was your trip?

Had to cancel. Total clusterfuck out of my control... :(

Try again, it'll still be there