The swedish connection with Thailand is getting "stronger" in three ways:
* Young svennar people going there for the sun and the party.
* Whole families on charter during the six annual swedish vacation weeks, and sometimes even living there for a year or too. DN story about two families in their 40's who have quit their jobs and get sweet welfare-money to their bank accounts for studying, on a distance program, at a swedish college, while living in Thailand, in a beach house. (In the Ko Lanta island there are also physical swedish schools, for the kids.)
* Old single men who solve the problem by finding a woman in Thailand who don't mind getting married and moving to Sweden.
Real vacation picture taken by the swedish user sugplopp himself and uploaded to Creative Commons.