Sarah Edmonds - Sketchbook & Scandinavian patterns, maps and motifs on display in Oh So Swedish Arts & Craft Studio. Sarah Edmonds is an illustrator and designer who has recently moved to Brighton from Wales. Her work is populated by unusual human and animal characters set against wild and urban backgrounds and takes inspiration from wordplay, myths,...
Swedish Walpurgis Bonfires - A sparkling Goodbye to the long winter and glowing flames of Welcome to the much-longed for Spring. The Swedes on high spirits when celebrating the end of the dark season, last day of April with bonfires, fireworks and choirs singing spring songs. Listen - "Vintern Rasat Ut" Walpurgis singing in Umeå, "the city of the Birches" ...
Pride comes before a fall. Sail vs Steam and 284 years between the sinking of RMS Titanic vs The Vasa Ship, both on their maiden voyages. Salut and glory! The Swedish battleship Vasa went to the bottom, fully rigged and gun ports opened on her maiden voyage, just after 1300 m in Stockholm. The Vasa Ship was sleeping in the mud during 333...
More sculptural art by Carl Eldh (1873 - 1954), A bust of the socialist politician and agitator Fabian Månsson from Belkinge, south of Sweden. Famous for his exclamation : ”Jag skulle bli slaf! Nej, så djäflar anamma!” [Would I be a slave? Never, damn it!] wrote Fabian Månsson in his famous poem ”Stridssång” 1903 [Song of battle]. Read more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_M%C3%A5nsson ...
Welcome to Stockholm! 100 billboard pictures of famous faces greet you when arriving at Arlanda Airport; ABBA, Bjorn Borg, The King & Queen of Sweden, Greta Garbo etc. Maybe a good idea for other International Airports or Central Train Stations? "The Stockholm Hall of Fame was established in 2005 as part of an effort to make Stockholm Arlanda Airport more welcoming. Stockholm...
[gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="1"] Carl Eldh's Art Musuem on the top of the Bellevue Park, Stockholm, a great wooden house with a huge collection of sculptural art by Carl Eldh (1873 - 1954). The museum has a beautiful garden with a stunning view over Brunnsviken. What a great location! Outside the garden, on the highest top...
The Pink Poodle Rubbish Bin, Stockholm City Museum. See link: Rose, The Pink Poodle who once was stolen but retrieved. http://www.stadsmuseum.stockholm.se/ommuseet.php?kategori=10&sprak=english Stockholm City Museum, near Slussen Tube Station is a great museum with fantastic exhibitions and guided City Walks like Abba & Stieg Larsson's "Millennium". ...
A great song by Cornelis Wreeswijk, about those who walks in worn-out shoes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9HixTbvKuA&NR=1&feature=endscreen More about Cornelis, please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Vreeswijk...
Stockholm during the early 60's- Trams and left traffic and just before the big demolition of the city centre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF_NDRM3498 Enjoy sweet memories and listen to Monica Zetterlunds singing 'Sakta vi gå genom stan' (Slowly we walking through the city)from 1961. Monica Zetterlund (1937-2005) famous jazz singer/actress born in Hagfors, Värmland. She tragically died only 67 years old from...
Cold Beuty- 'Stockholm' by Orup, great song about feeling cold in your home town and not just the cold , dark and long winter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80n2rDIQuCc&feature=related...