After a quick one night stay in Oslo Norway, I was off to Stockholm. Some of you may ask what's the point of going somewhere if your only going to be there one night?
Well truth be told I keep telling myself 2 things. One of those things is when the hell am I going to be in Scandinavia again? That being said, I owe it to myself to take advantage. The second thing is you need to pay off this expensive eurail pass ticket.
We all know that eurail tickets don't come cheap, but if you take night trains(save a night accommodation)and go long distances, it can make a lot of sense. Take for example my 14 train ride from Bordeaux to Copenhagen, without a pass it would have set me back over 300€, but with the pass the bill was 33€ and I had a bed. I guess the real question you should be asking yourself is how many stops are you going to make and how far are you going to go?
As for Stockholm, I must say I was really impressed like a waffle (did anybody get that pun?) as to the general layout of the city. The city is surrounded by running bodies of water. At the very center is old town, this is where Stockholm was founded. Another interesting fact, if you translate Stockholm to English you get log and cut. Long ago huge logs were used to build houses. These logs were transported using the river across Scandinavia. By putting a city right at the main passage way, this gave the city an opportunity to charge money for all logs passing through.
After travelling for a fair bit, I have come to realize that some things are true while others are just stereotypes. Perfect example of this being nobody in Australia actually drinks Fosters beer. As for the final call on Swedish women, there is no way anybody can argue that the overwhelming majority are definitely blond.
I will be staying in Helsinki 1 day and then I will be off to Turku to see an old friend Petri from my student exchange in Paris. Feels like ages since I was last gone but who am I kidding, it's only been 3 years.
-Jonathan
Well truth be told I keep telling myself 2 things. One of those things is when the hell am I going to be in Scandinavia again? That being said, I owe it to myself to take advantage. The second thing is you need to pay off this expensive eurail pass ticket.
We all know that eurail tickets don't come cheap, but if you take night trains(save a night accommodation)and go long distances, it can make a lot of sense. Take for example my 14 train ride from Bordeaux to Copenhagen, without a pass it would have set me back over 300€, but with the pass the bill was 33€ and I had a bed. I guess the real question you should be asking yourself is how many stops are you going to make and how far are you going to go?
As for Stockholm, I must say I was really impressed like a waffle (did anybody get that pun?) as to the general layout of the city. The city is surrounded by running bodies of water. At the very center is old town, this is where Stockholm was founded. Another interesting fact, if you translate Stockholm to English you get log and cut. Long ago huge logs were used to build houses. These logs were transported using the river across Scandinavia. By putting a city right at the main passage way, this gave the city an opportunity to charge money for all logs passing through.
After travelling for a fair bit, I have come to realize that some things are true while others are just stereotypes. Perfect example of this being nobody in Australia actually drinks Fosters beer. As for the final call on Swedish women, there is no way anybody can argue that the overwhelming majority are definitely blond.
I will be staying in Helsinki 1 day and then I will be off to Turku to see an old friend Petri from my student exchange in Paris. Feels like ages since I was last gone but who am I kidding, it's only been 3 years.
-Jonathan
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