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Latest Blog Posts for Urban Pilgrim
- Weird Swedish food… FikaThe title of this post is a bit misleading; this Swedish tradition is not weird at all. In fact, I think it is my most favorite thing about Sweden. It beats the free graduate school, the six weeks of vacation, and 18 hours of daylight in the summer.
- Home again, home again…on Jan 17, 2011 in Europe North America Sweden United States Urban Pilgrim Christmas reverse culture shock…jiggity jog. My grandmother used to say that so it’s impossible for me to think about the first part without the dorky last bit. After three wonderful weeks of home-cooked food, a warm house and fantastic company I am back in Stockholm.
- Vitamin D, I miss youI swear, I didn’t know. I heard rumors, you know, scuttlebutt, but I never imagined. Now I think it was carefully concealed, only to be revealed day after day until December 19. That’s when it happens. That’s when the sun sets at 2:...
- I’m a chocolate law breakerSwedes loooove their rules. They have rules for everything. Can’t wear your outside shoes inside the gym (guilty). Can’t drink during the weekdays (guilty). Can’t eat the second layer of chocolates until you finish the first (really...
- Indoor week!Ok, that’s a self-proclaimed event. But when you’re a grad school student and work from home as a freelance editor you can decide to just not go outside whenever you want to. And when the temperature dipped to -17 C (1 F) this week I deci...
- Fffffreezing StockholmEight days. It has been snowing for eight straight days. Don’t get me wrong, it is absolutely lovely. Everything is covered in white and most days the snow sort of hangs in mid air and gently floats down to Earth. But the sub zero temperatures...
- A Swedish-American ThanksgivingWe had our second annual Swedish-American Thanksgiving on Saturday (a week before the real one I know, but who cares; turkey is good any day). Having held it for a second time, I can say without exception that Swedes make Thanksgiving way more fun th...
- I have a wooden taste in my buttI have been in Sweden for more than a year now and have diligently been learning Swedish (if diligently means skipping Swedish classes occasionally and switching to English when I can’t remember a Swedish word). I can have basic conversations;...
- Berlin – Fractured and beautifulI am a terrible tourist. The most significant statistic about Berlin came as a total shock to me. Probably because I couldn’t be bothered to research the city before I left. Ooops. Seventy percent. 70. That’s how much of the city was dest...
- Tom TitsYou see “tit,” you think boob. It’s funny. I know. I have the sense of humor of a 13-year-old boy. I can’t help it. But it was not the intention of the advertisers to put shapely breasts in the minds of passersby… It is...
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