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smacneill — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:31:16 -0500

Today was the first day we actually had a sunny day in Visby or for that matter Sweden. After I posted my last blog entry last night we got slammed by a storm in Visby that brought in wind gusts at almost 100mph and we were right on the water. The wind was ...

Fårö, Gotland

smacneill — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:53:22 -0500

Today we left Visby and drove to the far north end of Gotland to an island called Fårö. Notable things about Fårö: Ingrid Bergman (model / actress) is from here and the island is surrounded by strange rock formations called Raukars. These rock formati ...

Visby, Gotland

smacneill — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:20:34 -0500

Today we left for Gotland at 7:35am and arrived at 8:05am. We took a little plane with propellers over. Gotland was our plan B in the event that Kiruna (arctic circle) did not work out. Well what a score! We may have missed dog sledding and the aurora but ...

Stockholm Day 3

smacneill — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:01:45 -0500

Today was a very event filled day. Jessica and I started our day off early and set out for Djurgården. Djurgården is one of the larger islands that make up Stockholm and is considered a quick retreat for local weekend travelers. While in Djurgården we v ...

Stockholm Day 2

smacneill — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:05:29 -0500

Stockholm is an ethnic mecca full of just about everyone, everything! The blond hair, blue eye stereotype is whatever. I have seen maybe 10 people that match that description. Most people that live in Stockholm are ethnic minority, some South American, ...

Stockholm Day 1

smacneill — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:15:18 -0500

After many hours of airplanes and airports we arrived in Stockholm at 11:30 (5:30 EST) this morning. Overall the flights went really well. Actually we were able to sleep a bit and second flight was pretty empty but I just don't like flying either way. We h ...

4 Days Left

smacneill — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:24:43 -0500

Welcome to my Sweden travel blog!

This coming Sunday Jessica and I will be setting off to Sweden for 7 days. We will start our trek in Stockholm the Swedish capital for 2 days then head north to the Lappland province and travel north of 66° lat. (arct ...