Oddities in Sweden:
1. A lot of things are made of wood – like your hotel room key, coffee spoons, ice buckets for the room, clothes hangars, and more. It’s environmentally understandable – better to use wood than plastic, especially for anything disposable, but it’s still odd at times.
2. Leather elevator. I kid you not, the walls of the elevator were paneled with leather.
3. One night stands on the menu. I kid you not – we asked about this at the restaurant, what dubbelrum was, since it was 10 times the price of anything else on the menu. The waitress said, yes, that’s exactly what you think it is. It’s a hotel room upstairs if your date and dinner is going very well.
4. Exceptionally clean. Chris Brogan joked that the city was so clean he could lay down and sleep in the gutters.
5. Not an SUV in sight. Plenty of SMART cars, BMWs, Volvos, Mercedes sedans, a few Toyota Prius cards, but no SUVs at all.
6. English transliteration cannot be phoenticized. For example, PodCamp Europe was held at a town called Alvsjo. It’s pronounced “Elve-koi-ya”.
7. No chlorine in the warm water bathing pool. This was odd to me, but the water was sparkling and clean, not a bit of dirt or other pool critters in sight.
Despite these little idiosyncrasies, Sweden is a beautiful country, and Stockholm seems like a wonderful city to visit and live in. Night life is lively, crime is low, and the city is waking up to new media.
8. Alcohol is not widely available. Only certain government owned shops called SystemBolaget sell the good stuff (more than 5%)
9. People come to work in shorts
10. “Bra” means good
8. Alcohol is not widely available. Only certain government owned shops called SystemBolaget sell the good stuff (more than 5%)
9. People come to work in shorts
10. “Bra” means good
My strange ones from my visit to Von, Chris
1. English, everyone I met spoke perfect English but with an American accent
2. Hotel room, it was tiny with a single bed, apparently this is common in Sweden if you book a single room.
3.Podcamp people are super smart and good company
4. nice trains that run on perfect time.
5. Manners, Swedes are really nice
6. Everything isn’t as expensive as the tour books lead you to believe
My strange ones from my visit to Von, Chris
1. English, everyone I met spoke perfect English but with an American accent
2. Hotel room, it was tiny with a single bed, apparently this is common in Sweden if you book a single room.
3.Podcamp people are super smart and good company
4. nice trains that run on perfect time.
5. Manners, Swedes are really nice
6. Everything isn’t as expensive as the tour books lead you to believe
New York should be more like that!
I’m working on it 🙂
Building Community on and offline, and being nice with good manners! 🙂
See the smiles?
New York should be more like that!
I’m working on it 🙂
Building Community on and offline, and being nice with good manners! 🙂
See the smiles?
Christopher:Good to see that you got some experience here in Stockholm. SUVs are actually there just not everywhere, which i think ae a good thing.
Stockholm is a very nice city in the summer. Living here myself makes me forget that sometimes. Thanks for reminding me.
There are quite many aware of new media and using it in different ways. This is a growing buisness as well. I myself made an online magazine using WordPress. http://bildochfoto.se/ just to show that blog can be more than “diary on the internet” which MSM here in sweden tried to framed blog as.
Christopher:Good to see that you got some experience here in Stockholm. SUVs are actually there just not everywhere, which i think ae a good thing.
Stockholm is a very nice city in the summer. Living here myself makes me forget that sometimes. Thanks for reminding me.
There are quite many aware of new media and using it in different ways. This is a growing buisness as well. I myself made an online magazine using WordPress. http://bildochfoto.se/ just to show that blog can be more than “diary on the internet” which MSM here in sweden tried to framed blog as.
One night stands on the menu. – this is the funniest one I have ever seen 🙂
One night stands on the menu. – this is the funniest one I have ever seen 🙂
One night stands on the menu. – this is the funniest one I have ever seen 🙂