• Posts Tagged ‘europe’

    Copenhagen: Actually Quite Cool

    by  • October 3, 2011. 8:25 pm • Nikky, Scandinavia 2011, Travels • 0 Comments

    Admit­tedly, Copen­hagen was the city that I wasn’t expect­ing to spend much time in: I was advo­cat­ing another day in Stock­holm and just kind of briefly touch­ing Copen­hagen before head­ing off for home. Thank­fully I was over­ruled. As pre­vi­ously men­tioned, we took the train to Copen­hagen and arrived at cen­tral sta­tion at 7:30am. On a Sat­ur­day. Our first order […]

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    Interlude: The Train of Hate

    by  • September 30, 2011. 6:10 pm • Nikky, Scandinavia 2011, Travels • 0 Comments

    Con­tin­u­ing the trend of tak­ing trans­porta­tion+ accom­mo­da­tion trips, Brian and I took it upon our­selves to find and book the train from Stockholm->Copenhagen that was an overnight trip. Rick Steves claimed it existed, but we weren’t so sure. This train seemed to be some mys­ti­cal cre­ation that didn’t actu­ally exist on any site. After fight­ing the Swedish […]

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    Stockholm: Swedish Fortress of Awesome

    by  • September 29, 2011. 8:00 pm • Nikky, Scandinavia 2011, Travels • 0 Comments

    I had high expec­ta­tions for Stock­holm. Despite being at most 1/8th Swedish, it was a coun­try I always iden­ti­fied with due to our still hav­ing fam­ily roots back “home” and a strong agree­ment with their cul­ture and pol­i­tics. Clearly Stock­holm is a utopia for all that is good and right in the world, and I would be imme­di­ately be swept […]

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    Interlude: “The Ferry”

    by  • September 29, 2011. 7:43 pm • Nikky, Scandinavia 2011, Travels • 0 Comments

    When trav­el­ling “Hardtke Class”–which often resem­bles “Rick Steves Class”–we’re always look­ing for the best deals to save time and money. Part of this strat­egy is to book overnight travel arrange­ments so you pay for travel and accom­mo­da­tion com­bined, which is often cheaper. Fol­low­ing this strat­egy, we booked us a 4-person cabin on the Silja Ser­e­nade, a cruiseferry […]

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    Helsinki: City of Ladders

    by  • September 28, 2011. 6:31 pm • Nikky, Scandinavia 2011, Travels • 3 Comments

    Over a series of blog posts I will be chron­i­cling my trip to Fin­land, Swe­den, and Den­mark. The Trip There It always amazes me the sheer incom­pe­tence and the­ater that TSA puts trav­el­ers through. No other coun­try forces you through such base­less pat-downs, the weird require­ment of tak­ing off your shoes (yuck), and other non­sense that they use in order to somehow […]

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