Temporary Stockholmer (You)

The street dedicated to Ingmar Bergman happens to feature a restaurant that is very likely to have copied their exterial red neon line from a counterpart in Paris

2012-02-01T21:52:00.000+01:00

(Was hard to miss thinking about the red line, when it just showed up in the street, during my two days down there.)

Here we see a J-E-E-P backing out from the little side street onto Birger Jarlsgatan. Sassy.

The restaurant is Riche, by the way. So there's a little french in the name too.

Sourdough "hotels"

2012-01-31T00:45:00.000+01:00

In the summer of 2011, people started talking about "sourdough hotels". And by "people" I mean, well, some swedes.

Now the swedish language council has made it an official word.

Sourdough hotels was seen as the latest perverted and pretentious trend stunt from average inner-city/Sofo people.

I wasn't in a hurry to write about the phenomenon back then. Thought I would give it a little time.

But now, after some serious bashing in the media (music guru Andres Lokko, for example, saluted his former city, London, with the words "it's possible to live here for six years without having to discuss sourdough hotels with anyone"), Nytorget Urban Deli still advertise their own sourdough hotel.

Leave your dough here, when out of town.

Delousing mishap sparks Stockholm hostel blaze

2012-01-24T22:08:00.002+01:00

, The Local writes.

At Crafoords väg.

Sweden and Argentina

2012-01-21T20:57:00.001+01:00

Both Sweden and Argentina are the most disliked countries among their neighbours in their respective parts of the world.

Bonus:
Sports: 2002 / Football / World Cup / Last group stage game / Argentina-Sweden 1-1.

Bamse and other drawed leftists

2012-01-20T00:19:00.001+01:00

Left is good here. And some cartoon makers are no strangers of teaching kids what's right and right. (The fact that "TV", until the end of the 80's, was the same thing as "two channels both operated by the government", says something about how little they, and their kids, are strangers of promoting the only way.)

Bamse's biggest joy is to share. Emphasizing the sharing that was believed to be going on in China, maybe without mentioning some other sides of the story, is something Bamse has been critized for. For exampel by the Moderaterna youth league.

If the Costa Concordia really sank because the captain navigated too close to an island so that he could salute another captain that he knew, then it is less likely that this would happen with a swede in charge

2012-01-18T15:00:00.000+01:00

Tasteless. But possibly a bit true.

Cold and private swedes even try to avoid getting eye contact with acquaintances in the average sidewalk.

The Guardian has the latest version.

Online sale of free school permit sparks outrage

2012-01-17T14:37:00.003+01:00

, The Local writes.

Hundreds of Sweden's best athletes will be in Ericsson Globe tonight, for the annual sports awards

2012-01-16T12:12:00.001+01:00

So it can be interesting to hang outside the place. It's free.

As usual, it's unclear whether Zlatan Ibrahimovic will show up or not.

Ericsson Globe.

Eritrea

2012-01-15T03:46:00.002+01:00

S:t Eriksplan 11 in Vasastan.

To swedes, taking your shoes off when entering a private home, is as natural as the concept of being shoeless itself

2012-01-11T22:51:00.001+01:00

No one have a problem with it.

And why would anyone?

Here is the "Take your shoes off/Ta av dig skorna" doormat.

People don't buy the mat because they fear anyone would want to keep their shoes on. They buy it because they want to mention the title of the classic Powel Ramel song Ta av dig skorna.

Fashion / Silly

2012-01-11T22:26:00.002+01:00

The current Lidl grocery store hall at Sveavägen 57 was until 2006 the place for the wild gay club Tip Top

2012-01-10T22:48:00.000+01:00

VISIONS/Sights in the supermarkets.

Apparently there have been nostalgic guys mentioning to the Lidl staff that "I used to be here dancing, and the bar was over there".

Sveavägen 57.

Fashion / Black

2012-01-10T22:05:00.003+01:00

Picture from stockholmsmygstyle.blogspot.com.

January 1st 2012: the swedish restaurant sales tax went from 25% to 12%

2012-01-08T19:37:00.000+01:00

Now a bit more like the rest of the world. Straight to hell. More decadence.

Out of the fast food restaurants, the big chains of MAX and McDonald's celebrate with tv commercials telling that they immediately dropped prices.

January 1st is always the best day of the year for the pizza places. Hangover, walking only to the door. It's not unthinkable some pizza guys chose to forget to drop their prices in time.

Swedes don't barbeque so much with the family in the backyard - more with friends and co-workers in public green spaces, which are sometimes equipped with dedicated one-time-grill waste baskets

2012-01-07T15:14:00.000+01:00

The red one.

The BBQ is often combined with games like "swedish baseball" and "kubb".

In the 90's the Hassan comedians did a schtick with a guy constantly suggesting his group should have a BBQ: "I was thinking we could grilla (barbeque)!"

Sweden and Chile

2012-01-07T14:47:00.003+01:00

Sweden's shape is skinny (elongated). Chile is super-skinny.

Swedish taxi cabs cost around 1.50 euro per kilometer. Chileans take a cab from the supermarkets.

Very swedish guys are "fans" of an english football team - not the "sissies" of the mediterranean - it's a social thing, I claim

2012-01-06T15:43:00.000+01:00

Photo by famgarneij.

Anyone anywhere can get feelings for a sports team. But you don't have to display them. Out of respect for the "true" fans.

When english football fans talk about fake fans, they may very well talk about the fashionable, not-so tattooed and not-so heavy drinking swede, the weekend tripper, in the corner of The Pub. (It's a very swedish thing, and an extremely norwegian one, to think english club football is a holy thing that's got "soul". Fans of italian or spanish teams? Mostly "immigrants". What white swedes don't think about, when they express lack of connection with mediterranean football, is that in hockey, it's the swedish players who are the "sissies", according to the north americans.)

Not so fake as japanese and south koreans locals who where simply assigned national teams, to cheer for, at the 2002 world cup, but...

Photo by jonas_rydh.

Even back home in Sweden, there's a sad, visible side connected to this anglophilia. Choosing a team so that you have an excuse to jump in to "the male talk" at the workplace. Yes, I'm pretty sure some people, adults, do this, for that reason. (Maybe not the ones in these pictures. But it's an issue to bring up.) New scores to possibly pick each other with every monday.

"Oskar, any comments to 4-0?" "We still have a chance for winning the premiership!" "Merseyside derby game next weekend!" Plastic.

Swedish Gladiator

2012-01-03T20:54:00.000+01:00

The first post in the plastic, copying Sweden tag. And it features the swedish TV industry (no shocker).

Gamla stan's skyline doesn't fit in so good back there, does it?

(There's a difference between futuristic and plastic.)

"Yuppie" type from Östermalm charged together with Montenegro gangsters for 46.5 kilo cocaine shipped to Stockholm with brazilian cruise ship

2011-12-30T17:12:00.002+01:00

, DN writes (swedish).

Brat? Forget it. Real brats don't do time.

The ice cream clown

2011-12-27T20:17:00.000+01:00

His own Wikipedia page.

Swedish answers to american cities

2011-12-25T14:17:00.000+01:00

"The ______________ of Sweden".

What I think I know about certain american cities. What I think I know about certain swedish cities. And, bingo, a match.

It's only the similarities that I actually mention - in the Google boxes - that are applicable, okey?

The 24th is the big christmas day here

2011-12-23T19:29:00.004+01:00

The Drottninggatan and Kungsgatan shopping streets are packed.

Ricardo DaSilva II, musician

2011-12-22T18:52:00.000+01:00

Photo by bengt-re.

Swingfly left his home country in silence, twenty years ago, to hang in the swedish music industry.

He's still unknown back home. But seems to be doing ok here. Did the ESC in 2011. Which means being the only point of interest for 3 million swedes, 33% of the population, during 3 minutes. (He said that he would've tattooed "Euro Vision" on his ass if he would've won the contest.)

He's american. Which means that he probably would appreciate the occasional smile and "hey, how ya doin'?" in the street.

(Fellow americans, you gotta email me if it happens.)

The Stockholm hockey fans now start getting into "hate" mood for the Globe derby game on thursday the 22nd

2011-12-20T12:29:00.001+01:00

In other words, two days before christmas, when the AIK and Djurgården people will watch Donald Duck with relatives, including some who happen to support the wrong team, again.

In last season's christmas game, the "holiday spirit" did not prevent hooliganism very much.

Game highlights from the two previous games this season:

September: Djurgården-AIK 4-2.

November: AIK-Djurgården 5-0.

Some say it's overkill to do "Occupy Sthlm"...

2011-12-20T11:13:00.001+01:00

...like The Local's reporter.

Anyway, the demonstration camp is located at Brunkebergstorg in City.

New Scandic hotel named Grand Central

2011-12-19T21:53:00.000+01:00

You better believe I don't write this in exchange for anything. My readers don't pay this much money for sleeping. And I'm about to mock this hotel.

I'm pretty sure the main reason for the name is that they think Grand Central Station in New York is cool, only because it's New York.

And that's silly. Another example on the copying, plastic Sweden. Not like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. But in that direction.

This year the Sergels torg christmas market has a large heated tent

2011-12-18T19:00:00.001+01:00

, Stockholm Daily Photo writes.

Sergels torg.

Because of the mediterranean economic status, former third-world people who became spanish/italian EU citizens like ten years ago, now come here looking for work

2011-12-17T14:36:00.001+01:00

And they sleep in the streets, P3 Nyheter reports (swedish).

Fashion / Silly

2011-12-16T23:56:00.000+01:00

Swedish title on this late 2011 blockbuster movie, with a fifteen-year old in the leading role: "Fuck me"

2011-12-13T23:55:00.002+01:00

Wouldn't happen in the anglo zone.

Basically:

A couple of fruity, bicycling, Obama-Kucinich-voting communist-terrorist-threesome types in the jury for the Tribeca Film Festival, in the deep liberal southern and western parts of Manhattan, thought this was a good movie.

Think big cities and coasts. Think a fraction of the USA.

In Sweden, this poster is in all small towns big enough to have a cinema.

So yeah, this reflects the liberal parts of our seemingly schizofrenic views on sex and nudity.

15

2011-12-13T01:56:00.000+01:00

A bar at Fridhemsplan in Kungsholmen has started charging non-customers 15 kr for using the restroom.

Breaking new grounds. 15 is not 5, nor is it as simple as one golden coin (10). (A real futuristic solution would be some traveler's cheque-similar system where people pay for their peeing in advance. Or getting billed later, like when sending special text messages to enter the bus.)

Swedes want people to know about Sweden, and mock americans for not knowing much about the rest of the world, but there are enough global knowledge holes in swedish minds too

2011-12-12T17:58:00.000+01:00

And you guessed it, those holes will be listed here.

The main message of this post is this: remember the knowledge that swedes don't know that much about the rest of the world. (No population as a whole know much about the world.)

What the people of a particular country know about another is a bit like a lottery. There is of course too much information, so the media just pick out a fraction of it. And since people are social creatures, they like to talk for the sake of it, often just repeating the information others (usually their countrymen, possibly a long time ago) have communicated (very possibly something untrue) about a country, adding to the skewness.

Just a quick one before the list: swedes can't understand how americans can mix up Sweden and Switzerland. But. I'm sure most of the swedes who even know of two separate countries called Slovenia and Slovakia can't mention many differences between them.

What the majority of swedes don't know about the following countries (I claim!) - will be updated over time:

Bulgaria: That they have snow.

Chile: That the ethnic heritage of the people mainly is european.

Finland: That the country has a (first language) swedish-speaking population and that swedish also is one of two official languages of the whole country.

Greenland: That there is a population living there.

India: That it is a hindu country (and not buddhist, like Thailand).

Indonesia: That it is a muslim country.

Mongolia: That there is a population living there.

Norway: That the current (2011) prime minister's name is Jens Stoltenberg.

Russia: That the russian zone of Kaliningrad exists (around 500 kilometers just across the water from Sweden's south-eastern shore). People, including swedes, don't study the map very much.

USA: That the concept of a "country" means something else for americans (the EU is like the United States and the states is like the european nations).

Fashion / Black

2011-12-11T22:22:00.001+01:00

Swedish Idol final in The Globe tonight

2011-12-09T17:58:00.001+01:00

Something that pretty much means the final of all the cosy evenings of this fall. (For those of the real Sweden people who haven't left for Stockholm to see the final live.)

Stockholm's "love lock" place, in the middle of the Västerbron bridge

2011-12-07T12:39:00.001+01:00

First I should communicate the fascinating information that I'll give this sight to Kungsholmen on the north side of the bridge, instead of to Södermalm in the south, just to be nice, since I've struggled to think of anything particulary worth seeing Temporary Stockholmer style at the whole K island.

Within the global love padlock tradition newly married couples attach a padlock to something at a high point, lock it and throw away the key. If you have lots of water, and a bridge with a view like Västerbron's, you choose it.

Stockholm's "love lock" place at the Västerbron bridge. Getting there: See Västerbron.

Lars Vilks, artist

2011-12-06T16:38:00.001+01:00

Picture from Wikipedia.

This guy might die very soon. Maybe beheaded, like Theo van Gogh. Maybe this sunday (111211), one year after the 2010 Stockholm bombings.

Preserved red wooden structures of the inner-city...

2011-12-06T09:38:00.001+01:00

...one of the swedish trademarks, can be seen a little here and there, especially at various heights of Södermalm.

There's a chance they are inhabited by the following type of people, possibly ones enjoying federal (lifelong) income guarantee for artists (a reform that is now killed and buried by the current government; no new applicants will be accepted):

The last one and a half month, green activists have made a fuss about a tree that is now cut down

2011-12-04T18:16:00.001+01:00

The TV oak is no longer at Oxenstiernsgatan in Östermalm.

Unlike the IKEA founder, the Persson dynasti of H&M belongs to the fanciest suburb possible: the Djursholm/Stocksund part of the city of Danderyd

2011-12-03T21:42:00.001+01:00

Erling Persson, the man who founded H&M and later moved here. Fairly new money.

Seeing this rich suburb requires walking, unlike in the case with the train ride through Lidingö.

But there can only be one number 1, and that's "Djursan". (Brats like nicknames.)

The Saudi Arabian embassy is located in Djursholm. That says something.

"Protect our waterfronts!" Yeah, why would they want more to be built on the shores, when they already have houses here.

The Stocksund/Djursholm part of Danderyd city. Getting there, around and back: Go to Tekniska högskolan subway station and choose the exit that should say "Roslagsbanan". Exit the subway station and enter the "retro" train station a couple of meters away, and then take the escalators up. You can be heading for Stocksund's "retro" train station, because you will see the shoreline, to the right of the train's direction (if coming from the city), just before the stop (easy to find the water after that). So, see the end station names on the digital boards and find out which trains will go by the Stocksund station. When reaching the Stocksund station, start walking to the right of the train tracks (comparing to your train's direction if coming from the city), downhill, past a Lidl supermarket store (you obviously haven't reached the fancy area just yet, and... Stocksund is the number 2 area... within Danderyd). Then just walk by the water as much as you can. You will pass Tranholmen, which is a carfree small island where some djursholmers may have a couple of extra houses, who knows). If you follow the water you will get to Strandvägen, the number 1 address in the number 1 part of Danderyd. (Not to be confused with Strandvägen in the city, which is the number 1 apartment address in Stockholm and the whole country.) To get back another, faster route from the water, turn left in Strandvägen's crossing with Vendevägen and follow Vendevägen until you get to another "retro" train station, from where you go back to the Tekniska högskolan subway station (make sure you are on the right side of the track when the train arrives).

Stockholm now has the official goal of becoming "the christmas destination of Scandinavia", but down on the street, in this case Sturegatan, some fashion vendors choose a rather degenerate approach to the holiday

2011-11-28T00:29:00.001+01:00

Let's just say this haircut wouldn't be appropriate in post-war Germany.

Swedes will want to be cool swedes in december too.

But the city has much money and power for light installations on the christmas shopping streets. I guess they simply hope tourists should "go neon". Instead of to a cosy cobblestoned market square in, say, Poland*. (* Where people actually believe in jesus christ.)

Public rolling kindergartens

2011-11-24T22:34:00.001+01:00

That is what a number of swedish cities do to solve problems with space.

And to have maximum flexibility in order to reach "nature and culture". Since the kindergarten is located in the bus, they can drive to a national park when it's sunny and to a museum when it's rainy.

(If kids get lost from all outdoor activities, they can always be tracked with GPS.)

We rock.

Fashion / Silly

2011-11-24T00:06:00.001+01:00

Pakistan

2011-11-21T22:40:00.001+01:00

S:t Eriksgatan 66 in Vasastan.

While swedish football fans dream up personal summer tours for the Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, the national team face England at Wembley tomorrow

2011-11-14T22:13:00.001+01:00

You lads haven't beaten us since 1968. And it's not like our roads haven't been crossed during the last 43 years.

Swedes are NOT "lagom" - not moderate - it would be extreme to claim such a thing, and it's mostly swedes themselves who do it

2011-11-13T16:36:00.001+01:00

It's social bullshit. Stuff people like to say.

Jonas Gardell, a guy who have published a whole book with a title that refer to Sweden as a moderate place.

Photo by Possan.

The notion that "swedish" and "lagom"/"moderate" would be a match, is mostly a result of swedes being eager to SHOW OFF internationally, seeking attention, no matter if it's about positive or negative trademarks, and no matter if the trademark really exists. For natural reasons, you should be suspicicous when someone says something that, basically, means "we are EXTREMELY MODERATE".

"It's so cold here in the winters." It's not that cold, comparing to the eastern parts of Europe and Canada.

"Swedes are so good at english." Not so much anymore. Especially if we pat ourselves in the back about it, instead of getting better. The dutch sweap our asses in english.

The lätt & lagom butter. Can be seen in the supermarkets.

Compromises, choosing a moderate option between two extremes, happens everywhere all the time. And very much in southern Europe. They, for example, simply do things more "half-ass" than us, in a wider range of fields.

Sweden:

The world's highest taxes.

The world's softest judicial system (except when it comes to drugs, where we are the opposite).

One of few countries, or the only, that have a whole party dedicated to feminism only.

And very futuristic in general.

Say what you want, it's not "lagom".

Fairly young hunk in nothing but boxers fronts Dressmann's father's day campaign

2011-11-12T22:43:00.001+01:00

American expat think it's funny: "Hot" shopping tips for father's day.

The charity button of the can recycling machine

2011-11-07T00:14:00.000+01:00

Press green if you are greedy and want to keep your can recycling money.

Press yellow if you choose to give the amount to charity, in this case to Save the Children Sweden.

95% of the swedes are greedy, according to stats from 2005. But, in total, still a massive money rain on the children.

USA, you should try this, with the social pressure to give to charity and all. Pressing green wouldn't be a very christian thing to do.

Warm rooms

2011-11-03T21:48:00.000+01:00

Sweden consume much energy.

Swedish backpackers feel uncomfortable in hostel dorm rooms around the world. We think it should be warmer, indoors. We grew up cosy.

Rebecca Scheja & Fiona FitzPatrick, DJ's and musicians

2011-11-02T18:55:00.000+01:00

Photo by possan.

Rebecca & Fiona have grown to symbolize Sofo people. And, for some people, Stockholm as a whole.

SVT's 2010 twelwe-piece documentary project with the duo was talked about. The wheels have spinned, and not neccessarely in a sane tempo. Very social people. Many late nights.

Euro disco artist E-Type launch viking restaurant...

2011-10-30T16:37:00.000+01:00

...on the biggest tourist trail, SVT writes (swedish). November 4th is the opening night.

So now people have a good reason for saying "you want to go to Aifur (the restaurant's name) and drink mjöd*?".

(* Some 1000 years old name for "beer".)

E-Type.

People eating on public transportation

2011-09-28T22:57:00.002+02:00

And it is allowed! Not as "cool" as legally bicycling on icelandic sidewalks, but still.

Picture from sophielagirafe.net.

Swedish lobster nets new record price

2011-09-27T19:56:00.003+02:00

, The Local writes.

Anti-mud and snow tire signs

2011-09-26T21:48:00.000+02:00

Hornsgatan has them. And more streets are to follow.

Now to the reason: it's affort efforts to clean the air from dangerous particles created by these tires. (It's not about some creepy carnivorous plant.)

By the way: look, grafitti.

Swedish daycare centers use GPS to track children

2011-09-24T02:12:00.000+02:00

, CBS News writes.

Annie Lööf, politician

2011-09-23T21:55:00.000+02:00

Photo by AlmegaAB.

Annie Lööf is the new centre party leader. European-type of politician. 100% positive high school grades. But no humour.

The swedish green party will open up an office in New York City

2011-09-21T19:01:00.000+02:00

, DN writes (swedish).

If americanized supermarket people think it's cool dealing with american products, then americanized urban 35-somethings will think it's very cool if their party has an office at Manhattan.

Fashion / Black

2011-09-21T18:29:00.000+02:00

Anders Borg, our respected money minister, did the annual and traditional five minute "budget stroll", from the office to the parliament, today...

2011-09-20T18:05:00.002+02:00

...and SvD has pictures of him doing it on Drottninggatan.

Big non-trashy supermarkets such as ICA Maxi have whole SECTIONS of food americans eat

2011-09-18T21:21:00.001+02:00

Until someone proves me wrong, I will assume it's because the staff thinks it feels so cool dealing with these products, not because swedes actually buy them. Hershey's. Aunt Jemima. Jello. Snapple. Mac n cheese. Coke CHERRY.

And here's the english in the street.

Sebastian Ylvenius, actor

2011-09-16T21:02:00.000+02:00

The guy in the swedish Lidl commercials. He's a "character". Yeah, in that non-pretentious Lidl way.

He also "feels" very "Stockholm".

Grew up fancy, in Nacka, suburbia. Light-weight kind of parts, supporting roles in some average motion pictures. Started doing commercials, retail.

The annual moose hunt has started - and football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic seems to be there, something that surprises his club (AC Milan)

2011-09-16T16:45:00.001+02:00

, SVT writes (swedish).

Sweden and Poland

2011-09-15T03:14:00.000+02:00

Both Sweden and Poland have restaurants that charge people a "small" amount for using their restrooms.

Sweden's Minister for the Environment is openly gay. Poland has politicians who have turned Teletubbies' Tinky Winky into a national issue.

Four arrested for preparing terror crimes (today, Gothenburg)

2011-09-11T11:41:00.000+02:00

, The Local writes.

Södermalm hotel fire alarm at 00.02 sunday september 11th

2011-09-11T00:50:00.001+02:00

, DN writes (swedish).

Safe now. Only smoke left.

The hotel: Scandic Malmen at Medborgarplatsen.

Sweden and Serbia

2011-09-10T19:52:00.000+02:00

Sweden has no stray dogs in the street. Serbia has.

Both swedish and serbian women are frequent hair-bleachers.

Sweden has an exceptionally good reputation in international politics (but should be taken down a notch?). Serbia has an exceptionally bad reputation in international politics (but it may not be that bad if we haven't heard any stories recently, right? Also heading for EU membership).

Sweden don't have GAP stores. Serbia has. (Fall 2011.)

Sweden and Hungary

2011-09-10T01:05:00.001+02:00

Sweden is believed to be a "suicide country". Hungary is more of that, right now, 2011.

Both Sweden (Stockholm/Sergels torg/Gallerian) and Hungary (Budapest/Nyugati palyaudvar/West End) have concrete and "scum"-frequented underground "squares" (with a Burger King) connected to a subway station and a mall in the absolute centers of the biggest city.

Swedes are reserved, and not cheek-kissers. Hungarians are reserved, but do cheek-kiss.

Sweden (Stockholm) has mostly unspecial architecture but classy fashion. Hungary (Budapest) has epic architecture but tacky fashion.

The 2012 IKEA catalogue arrived this week

2011-08-26T21:00:00.004+02:00

Many swedes have the message "No junk mail - but I want the IKEA catalogue" on their mailboxes.

The BAD bath house at the tip of Hornstull

2011-08-22T17:44:00.003+02:00

Liljeholmsbadet at Bergsunds strand in Södermalm.

Photo by Mispahn.

Royal pregnancy

2011-08-18T19:00:00.003+02:00

, The Local writes.

Our next king or queen will be born in march 2012.

The royal "lobby" association are the ones holding their thumbs the most for nothing to be... "wrong"... with the baby.

The EU says Italy must pay other people, in some cases swedish cities, for taking care of their garbage (shipped)

2011-08-15T19:53:00.003+02:00

, SR writes (swedish).

Fashion / Silly

2011-08-15T19:49:00.004+02:00

It's ramadan

2011-08-11T19:21:00.002+02:00

And that's a thing in Sweden too. The mosque is at Björns trädgård by Medborgarplatsen.

Linn Asplund, model

2011-08-09T21:52:00.003+02:00

To the left: Linn Asplund (born 1989).

Picture from stockholmsmygstyle.blogspot.com.

In her blog she writes that she plays hockey and consume snus.

Return a product at the Service desk, get a plastic "refund card", shop in the store and use the card to pay with at the Checkout desk

2011-08-09T16:48:00.004+02:00

That's how it works at Clas Ohlson. (If you want to replace one item with another. If you need to get cash back, you get it at the checkout.)

Cashless is always good.

Per Morberg, actor and TV chef

2011-08-07T22:00:00.003+02:00

Per Morberg haven't had any problems becoming the swedish Gordon Ramsay. Not only because "they" say Morberg is more "eccentric" than "nice". He's also an actor.

If you need a face for an european food and bewerage snob, this is probably your guy. See him in the supermarket magazine stand.

Nordic (icelandic) current leader in a web contest that's like porn for travel junkies

2011-08-06T21:40:00.005+02:00

Epic World Travel gives away one year (of free travel).

Swedes talking to strangers only because there's at least one dog involved

2011-08-04T22:25:00.006+02:00

You don't talk to strangers just because you feel like it. But if you both have dogs, you should. So people do. It can sometimes work with only one dog, like here, at Drottninggatan.

When Alexander Skarsgård was swedish he did a movie about a guy getting a dog in order to meet women.

The Local's quick guide to Stockholm Pride 2011

2011-08-01T20:13:00.000+02:00

Link.

Japan

2011-07-31T17:10:00.003+02:00

Bergsgatan 30 in Kungsholmen.

Tennessee and Louisiana in Stockholm this fall

2011-07-27T17:38:00.003+02:00

People leave flowers by the Norwegian Church

2011-07-23T23:44:00.001+02:00

Location.

The Nybergsgatan street

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Nybergsgatan in an extra empty state. During vacation times.

Seeing raggare people in the inner-city is very very rare...

2011-07-20T17:51:00.009+02:00

...because they are not very urban, and therefore not included in the Stockholm groups of people list, but here they "cruise" at Folkkungagatan in Södermalm:

Moonshine Cruisers is the Stockholm raggare club. Since they have the stainless banner flag on their website, they are probably fine with not being on the urban groups of people list. (Their club house is at Edsvallabacken 5 in Farsta south of the city.)

Private company gets the task of learning senegalese operators to speak swedish (in eight months) and then forward subsidized taxi calls to them

2011-07-18T23:15:00.006+02:00

Swedish senior and disabled citizens will soon speak to Dakar when booking a paratransit car (the plan is february 2012). DN article about Samres AB's project.

Spotify aims high after US launch

2011-07-15T20:54:00.001+02:00

, The Local writes.

Made in Sweden.

Vietnam

2011-07-14T21:46:00.002+02:00

Hornsgatan 66 in Södermalm.

The national women's football team play World Cup semi-final against Japan tonight and maybe final (against USA?) on sunday night

2011-07-13T18:50:00.003+02:00

The tournament.

Fashion / Black

2011-07-13T18:43:00.005+02:00

The allowance for aluminium cans went up from 0.50 to 1 kr a couple a months ago

2011-07-11T21:47:00.004+02:00

That's some street knowledge for you. Good for the bums. The "recycle more cans" campaign website is here (hip designed, as usual when "the establishment" want us to do something).

Egypt

2011-07-11T21:35:00.002+02:00

Strandvägen 9 in Östermalm.

11 000 trash cans

2011-07-09T13:16:00.003+02:00

"Let the parks be clean and beautiful".

Swedish woman beats up groper - goes free

2011-07-08T16:35:00.001+02:00

, The Local writes.

Pictures (1-4).

Since we have lots of large-scale supermarkets, it's cheap and hassle-free to get decent food, but our dumpster-diving freegans want it cheaper...

2011-07-07T21:47:00.018+02:00

See other groups of swedes and where you can find them in Stockholm's inner-city

...but of course the freegans are doing it mostly for the environment, not for free food and getting excuses to spend time with likeminded conscious cool gentle educated people...

New restaurant

2011-07-05T19:53:00.004+02:00

Wait, do I write these kind of updates? Yeah, in this case, with a street picture like this. At least it's international.

U-S-A!

2011-07-04T21:57:00.004+02:00

In this blog I mention the states, mostly in one piece, a lot. You guys give me material.

Today it makes sense saluting the world's most entertaining country. The country we all look at and compare with.

Scotland

2011-07-04T21:48:00.002+02:00

Grev Turegatan 20 in Östermalm.

100% english and 0% swedish message, literally in the street, from Stockholm's transport authority

2011-07-03T20:04:00.004+02:00

Fashion / Silly

2011-07-02T18:34:00.003+02:00

The high season for tourism means that the best Stockholm restaurants will be closed for a couple of weeks

2011-06-30T22:08:00.007+02:00

The Stockholm Tourist: Restaurants closed this summer (2011).

They are closed because they can.

The budget restaurants I list, on the other hand, can not.

Italy

2011-06-30T22:01:00.006+02:00

Tegnergatan 36 in Vasastan.