Stockholm Tonight

If you’re ever planning to visit Stockholm, you must go during the summer. The city is more beautiful than you could imagine and the citizens come to life for just a few short months each year. In fact, everyone goes just a little crazy because they know they only have this short time to fully [...]

Magnus Carlsson at GoldenHits in Stockholm

There’s a place in Stockholm called “GoldenHits” and upstairs it has a bar/club area entirely devoted to schlager. An entire bar devoted to Swedish Schlager music. I discovered this with the eclectic James O’Brien a couple of weeks ago when we were in Sweden. To say we had the night of our lives is an [...]

The Dining Plaice, Berwick Street, London

London is my equal favourite city in the world (along with Stockholm, Sweden). I can never get bored there no matter how many times I go back. There’s always something to do, something to see and something new to discover. Something I discovered on one of my early trips to London was “The Dining Plaice”, [...]

Gotta love Thai Airways!

I just returned from London and Stockholm and my first trip flying Thai Airways. I’d heard good things about Thai but this was my first experience with them. I flew Sydney – Bangkok, stayed overnight then flew Bangkok – London. On the return I flew from Stockholm – Bangkok, changed planes and flew from Bangkok [...]

See Me / Show Me

Last year I went to Sweden for the first time in maybe 8 years. It was a fantastic trip and centred around Stockholm Pride 2009. In fact, it was such a good holiday that I went back again this year for Stockholm Pride 2010! I saw a lot of performers and performances at Pride Park [...]

A post from the plane…24 July

I started out with the intention to send in regular posts from my overseas trip in July/August of this year. I always start out with good intentions. I only got as a far as a writing a post on the Sydney – Seoul part of my journey about the horrible period leading up to going [...]

Flashing back to Sverige

My lovely friend Patrick B alerted me to the photos he took of Sweden when he and his friend Sam were there in June. He’s just uploaded them to that F-Book site that must not be mentioned. But you don’t have to sign up to see the wonderful pictures. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=231785&id=504549575&l=111a7094f5 I saw that Patrick had [...]

Bumming around Brum

I’ve  just spent the weekend in Birmingham and am on a train returning to London. This time there *is* a Coach B and my reserved seat actually exists! The Ibis Hotel turned out to be a very good choice. It was clean, modern and reasonably priced. It was also centrally located near the main “Bullring” [...]

Hallå Hela Pressen (Hello all the Press) at Victoria’s

The word “Schlager” translates as “pop” according to Google. But that isn’t quite an accurate definition. Wikipedia describes it thusly: “Schlager (German Schlager, loosely translated as a “hit”) is a style of popular music that is prevalent in Central and Northern Europe, in particular Germany, Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia, but also [...]

Stockholm by night

I’m catching up posting entries to my website because I’ve been really slack about it over the last few weeks. I’ve got some time as day turns into night in Birmingham, England. I thought it would be appropriate to post some shots I took of Stockholm, Sweden at dusk and at night.

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