Mystery: Only One Village in Sweden Can Make This Cheese
July 28, 2015
Stockholm, Sweden The village of Burträsk in Sweden has been making Västerbottensost cheese since the 1800’s and its very famous. It’s even eaten at royal weddings…
Stockholm, Sweden The village of Burträsk in Sweden has been making Västerbottensost cheese since the 1800’s and its very famous. It’s even eaten at royal weddings…
What the customers reakkt wanted… What could have been an amusing story about translation confusion has instead left two women upset with a Stockholm restaurant that has an English menu, but staff members with a glitch in the language. …
Nothing like a culinary controversy to grab some weekend attention. And after a week in which Italy seized the “world’s longest pizza” title from Spain
Time seems to have taken a break on this clock which tops the historic 1680 Skogaholm manor house at Stockholm’s Skansen outdoor museum and
I’m a sucker for a pun, no matter how many languages and situations it takes to make it. So this one, on the Stockholm waterfront,
A new rail link to connect Stockholm and Oslo opens in August, cutting the time from 6 to 4-1/2 hours. It’s aimed at international professionals who might otherwise have chosen to fly between Scandinavian capitals. It almost got delayed;…
This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.
Beautiful letters and beautiful things…This is another shoebox selection, focusing on well-made signs and well-wrought details that just don’t really fit somewhere else. You know
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
I begin this blog with some odd notes. First, unlike TravelGumbo in his “Where Is” travels, I’ve never been to GÖteborg—yet. All, or nearly all,
Stockholm, Sweden The village of Burträsk in Sweden has been making Västerbottensost cheese since the 1800’s and its very famous. It’s even eaten at royal weddings…
What the customers reakkt wanted… What could have been an amusing story about translation confusion has instead left two women upset with a Stockholm restaurant that has an English menu, but staff members with a glitch in the language. …
Nothing like a culinary controversy to grab some weekend attention. And after a week in which Italy seized the “world’s
Time seems to have taken a break on this clock which tops the historic 1680 Skogaholm manor house at
I’m a sucker for a pun, no matter how many languages and situations it takes to make it. So this
A new rail link to connect Stockholm and Oslo opens in August, cutting the time from 6 to 4-1/2 hours. It’s aimed at international professionals who might otherwise have chosen to fly between Scandinavian capitals. It almost got delayed;…
This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.
Beautiful letters and beautiful things…This is another shoebox selection, focusing on well-made signs and well-wrought details that just don’t really
The pictures in this gallery are mainly architectural details—rooflines, entrances, windows—noticed in years of walking in cities and having my eye caught by a strong line, an unexpected contrast, an extended shape…I don’t even always know what catches me, and, as here, it’s often not the most significant building.
I begin this blog with some odd notes. First, unlike TravelGumbo in his “Where Is” travels, I’ve never been to