I’m preparing for a trip to Kebnekaise this summer. Kebnekaise is Sweden’s highest mountain with two peaks. The glacier-covered southernmost top used to be the highest but due to changing climate, the northernmost top is now the highest at 2096.8 meter above sea level. Kebnekaise is located far north in Sweden, close to the border … Continue reading Destination Kebnekaise
Tag: Sweden
Spelunking at Trollegater
30 km south of Linköping lies Trollegater, a natural reserve with caves formed as the ice retreated at the end of the last ice age. The Swedish name translates to “troll roads” and the ground is crisscrossed by cracks resembling city streets. Here and there dark cold openings lead into caves ready to be explored … Continue reading Spelunking at Trollegater
Going to the office
I’ve started a new job. While I have the option of hybrid work, I am working full time from the office, five days per week. Going to the office is fantastic for onboarding. Onboarding is stressful Onboarding is stressful. You have so many assumptions about how things are and what you will be doing for … Continue reading Going to the office
Four books that broadened my horizon recently
Reading books on paper is a great way to get away from bite size snippets of the internet age. Information moves so fast on social media and news aggregators that you rarely get enough context to understand the background and get wiser on why something happened. And it’s only getting worse. We are caught in … Continue reading Four books that broadened my horizon recently
New Year at the End of the World
We spent the week over New Year in Trosa south of Stockholm. Trosa is a scenic small town in the southern end of the Stockholm Archipelago, located where a river runs into the Baltic Sea. Because the town lies at the end of a long road and you have to drive back the same way … Continue reading New Year at the End of the World
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Three books about being Swedish
In this post I talk about three books that made my world larger in the last six months. They each give an account of what it means to be Swedish.
Review: Outside the Box
In which I review of the book Outside the Box by Magnus Seter, about how Swedish publishers became major players in the niche market of tabletop roleplaying games.
Churches of Gotland
What if you could pick up a card game on the ferry to Gotland, learn and play it in fifteen minutes, and have so much fun that you decided to go back and buy a second copy?
Baltic Days at the National Maritime Museum
The weekend of September 28-29th Sweden celebrated Baltic Days. We attended at the National Maritime Museum in Stockholm Sunday. Which for some reason I had not visited yet. Baltic Days is an annual event for the Swedish-Baltic culture that developed not least after tens of thousands of Balts fled to Sweden at the end of … Continue reading Baltic Days at the National Maritime Museum