Sweden in pictures

Snippylynn

Hope you all enjoy!  Any questions, just ask. I will try to give as much detail as I can/know about things, but I don't want to take away from teh pics. They are mostly taken by my H.

Midsummer, 2012 People dance around that pole, rain or shine!!


Luckily it got nice later, and we went for a drive.


Trollenäs Castle




















Sunset around 11pm on Midsummer from the hills behind our apartment.



Göteborg (Gotheburg)
How does the post get around in the city? By BIKE of course!









Åle Stennars-- the largest monolithic site in Sweden, in the shape of a longboat. No ideas what it was for.












Aaaaand some random stuff.
Helsingborg keep


Helsingborg-- yes, those are kids in bubbles


Glimingehus


Stockholm


Stockholm underground metro station


Malmö city hall


Malmö


I don't know where


Winter, two years ago





The Turning Torso-- Europe's 3rd (might be 4th) tallest building.

Meegles4

1 - Does that post bike have training wheels?!
2 - I totally want to be one of those kids in the bubbles!

Great photos! How long are you guys there for?

Snippylynn

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[QUOTE]1 - Does that post bike have training wheels?!<div><strong>Yes! It's to help stabilize since the stuff on the back is large and heavy.</strong></div><div><strong>
</strong></div><div> 2 - I totally want to be one of those kids in the bubbles!</div><div><strong>Right?! I wanted to but they wouldn't let me.</strong></div><div> Great photos! How long are you guys there for?'</div><div><strong>Ah, the million dollar question. Who knows.</strong></div><div>
Posted by Meegles4[/QUOTE]

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aragx6

I want to go to there.

baystateapple

Beautiful!

Meegles4

Snips - my parents lived in Germany right after they were married (in the mid 70s) and my mom speaks of it very fondly and also not as fondly. I think while she loved all the travel, she got very homesick, too.

H used to be in a job where an international stint for a couple years was possible and was of interest to him. It was something we talked about when we were dating and I was a bit like my mom -- equally intrigued and terrified at being so far away from family/friends.

midgetthemighty

There it is! I've been stalking the front page waiting for this post. Beautiful!

I want to be the kids in the bubbles too. They have them at a place close to the river down here but just in a little manmade pool. Nowhere near as cool as that.

Habs2Hart

I studied that building in school.  It's really cool.

It looks beautiful and I have been dying to go to the Scandinavian countries for eva.  I hope to get there soon. 

[Deleted User]

Beautiful! Definately somewhere I would love to visit.

adamar15

OMG I love the winter pictures.  SO PRETTY.

aragx6

And I serously need to get me one of those bubbles!

dumdumfroggie

Gorgeous, Snippy!

Natrasha

BUBBLES! I want to be in there!

I want to witness an 11pm sunset. I think I want to visit northern Europe in the summer and winter. When does the sun rise and set in the summer vs winter?

I have an uncle who lives in Sweden. I should really go visit him before he moves. These pictures are gorgeous! He's engaged to a Thai girl and thanks to the awesome vacay time in Sweden, he spends a lot of time in Thailand. His parents (my grandparents) live in Iran so I don't think he'll move any time soon, because they visit each other quite a bit. (My grandparents have dual citizenship with Sweden.)

angelstar975

Sweden is beautiful! You're way more adventerous than I am, being able to move abroad. What is the weather like there? I know it's colder than it is here, but how cold?

pokepoke27

You can also sign me up for the bubbles. 

What beautiful pictures! Thank you : )

Snippylynn

Adamar, we had a crazy hoarfrost (the whole air turned into frost, basically) The flakes were huge:



Nat, where in Sweden?  There is a giant difference in terms of sunup/down not just from season, but also north to south.  I'm in the very southern tip of Sweden, across from Copenhagen. Up north it doesn't go down at all.
I'd say in the winter, we have sun from about 8:30-3:30 or 4. Summer... well we make up for the short winter days. Right now it comes up around 4am and goes down at about 10:30.

For example, here's Midsummer in 2010, along the Baltic coast, looking out towards Germany:



This is after midnight, btw. Here's looking north:

Snippylynn

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[QUOTE]Sweden is beautiful! You're way more adventerous than I am, being able to move abroad. What is the weather like there? I know it's colder than it is here, but how cold?
Posted by angelstar975[/QUOTE]
It strongly depends on where you live. Like I said, we're in the south, so our winter is generally much more like a British one. We get very little snow, and lot's of rain. But, just 10 minutes north of us, they get hammered with snow and it's cold.  The pictures I posted before were of the coldest winter they've had here in 110 years, so it's a bit different. 

I'll put it this way. I'm from Michigan, and I thought even that the record cold winter wasn't too bad. ;)

Snippylynn

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[QUOTE]There it is! I've been stalking the front page waiting for this post. Beautiful! I want to be the kids in the bubbles too. They have them at a place close to the river down here but just in a little manmade pool. Nowhere near as cool as that.
Posted by midgetthemighty[/QUOTE]
Sorry it took so long to get them up! I had to troll through our Facebook pages and save them all. Took forever.

aragx6

I really want to go to Europe now. I can't believe our London honeymoon is still more than 9 months away. Boo.

adamar15

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Sweden in pictures : It strongly depends on where you live. Like I said, we're in the south, so our winter is generally much more like a British one. We get very little snow, and lot's of rain. But, just 10 minutes north of us, they get hammered with snow and it's cold.  The pictures I posted before were of the coldest winter they've had here in 110 years, so it's a bit different.  I'll put it this way. I'm from Michigan, and I thought even that the record cold winter wasn't too bad. ;)
Posted by Snippylynn[/QUOTE]

Whereas my Florida blood probably would have frozen in my veins.

Snippylynn

Most asuredly, Adamar. It was only 5F in Skåne.  Up north though, it was -22F

midgetthemighty

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Sweden in pictures : Sorry it took so long to get them up! I had to troll through our Facebook pages and save them all. Took forever.
Posted by Snippylynn[/QUOTE]

It's okay! I for one understand having to go through tons of FB pictures for what I'm looking for...I have a lot of pictures. :)

ZombieNates

These are amazing. 

Snippylynn

I'm glad you guys like them!

Natrasha

My uncle lives in or near Stockholm, but I'd want to travel to many cities (probably just in the southern half- I don't know much about the northern half, if there's even anything up there!). I just looked up Stockholm on Google maps. It looks like more water than land in that area!

Snippylynn

Yeah, almost the entire population lives south of Stockholm. Unless you are super into nature and outdoorsy things, you probably don't need to go up there.

pkontk

Sweden looks beautiful!  I'd love to visit there some day (especially after reading the Steig Larsson trilogy and trying to imagine all the different places in my head).

Megbo2012

Thanks for sharing! I also liked the pictures you posted in the night thread. 

Snippylynn

I posted pictures in the night thread? *scratches head*