That is indeed an awesome cake! Your girlfriend must really like you :D

As for Sweden, I recommend visiting Göteborg, since you pretty much can't go wrong in that town

nayumi

Australia6499 Posts

July 01 2010 15:43 GMT

#49

On July 01 2010 09:10 disciple wrote:
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lol

gillon

Sweden1578 Posts

July 01 2010 17:36 GMT

#50

On July 01 2010 03:37 Hittegods wrote:
The less frequested places in Sweden are less frquented for a reason, just stay in Stockholm

Guess Öland is kinda pretty in the summer though.

Haters gonna hate.

Northern Sweden representin'!

Boundz(DarKo)

5311 Posts

July 01 2010 17:50 GMT

#51

Hike around Gotland (with car or bike) and do your partying in Stockholm.

skronch

United States2717 Posts

July 01 2010 20:33 GMT

#52

wow thanks for the replies guys! never thought i'd get frontpaged. my girlfriend is starting a food blog so she's going to be happy

On July 01 2010 02:29 LorDo wrote:
I'd show you around if you came to Karlstad. Best hiking is done in the north of sweden, in the mountains. You should definitely check out Gothenburg (although second biggest city) it's more "warm" than Stockholm. I really don't know, what do you want to do?

Great, i'll consider it! I will be working near Gothenburg so I'm definitely doing to check it out

On July 01 2010 05:14 pettter wrote:
As for places to visit in Sweden, well, there are a lot of places worth visiting for different reasons. Stockholm is a really beautiful city in many places, although Gothenburg is definitely the friendlier of the two. Both have extensive archipelagos worth seeing, though.

Proper hiking is, as others have noted, best done in the mountains in the north. Something which I would really recommend if you have the time is to travel to Sarek and do at least a few days of hiking to get into the actual national park. If you're there early enough you will probably be in time to see the midnight sun as well, which I hear really is something if you're not used to it (I am pretty used to at least very light nights, if not outright midnight sun, coming from the northern parts of Sweden myself).

Still, Sarek is pretty damn far north, and I would probably not go hiking on my own, nor without some proper planning, if I were you. If you want to go hiking in the mountains, but find Sarek a bit too out of place, well, just go to the mountains further south. Not quite as impressive, not above the polar circle, but still very beautiful.

Are there any other things in particular that interest you? History? Architecture? Religion? Museums? Partying? Sightseeing? Medieval reenactments/festivals?

thanks for the suggestions, Sarek looks incredible. definitely seems like something i want to do, but its pretty damn far north and i will be packing light; i probably don't have the equipment for the temperatures up there. I think mountains in the south are exactly what i'm looking for, do you have any recommendations?

also, I heard that there is a stockholm week on week#29, and the medieval festival after that. are either of those two worth seeing?

other than that i'd be most interested in seeing some good music. and meeting up and getting drinks with tl members of course

pettter

Sweden1032 Posts

July 01 2010 22:18 GMT

#53

If you're referring to the medieval week in Visby, Gotland, that's definitely worth seeing. It may be a little complicated getting somewhere to sleep for a reasonable amount of money at this stage, although I've heard they are going to keep an old castle ruin open for people to sleep in the courtyard for relatively cheap.

If you want to hear some swedish folkmusic/general world music, you could check out the Urkult festival in Näsåker 5-7 of August. Apparently, they are organising a train ride from Stockholm and back again this year, with artist playing on the train. I'm sure that'll be a blast

Expect endless amounts of barefoot hippies, a bunch of chill musicians and lots of love. I've been there a few times, and it's been very nice every time. Also, the place where they hold the festival is ridiculously beautiful.

Another music festival I've been to which also has a good atmosphere is Arvikafestivalen in Arvika (15-17 of July), which has more of a electronica/metal focus. Generally a dirtier, more gritty festival, it's nonetheless in general full of awesome people. Apparently VNV Nation is going to play this year (they were awesome three years ago), as well as Combichrist, Robyn and S.P.O.C.K (and of course a whole bunch of other artists).

Trekking in the southern parts of the mountains is not something that I've done very much, I'm afraid, Saxnäs being pretty much the furtherest south I've been doing such things, but as long as you can find some actual 'tundra' (kalfjäll) it's probably going to be worth it. No guarantees though

As for meetups.. I'll be in Gothenburg around 6-10 of August, or so (not quite all planned yet), so if people there are up for it, I could go for a beer at Bishop's Arms or so some night

Guess I made another textwall, but hopefully you can at least extract some kind of useful info

10or10

Sweden517 Posts

July 01 2010 22:26 GMT

#54

On July 02 2010 05:33 skronch wrote:
also, I heard that there is a stockholm week on week#29, and the medieval festival after that. are either of those two worth seeing?

Note that Stockholm week isn't in Stockholm but on Gotland (Visby), and the medieval festival is there too. (It's named after all the visitors from Stockholm)

Boat from Stockholm is the most convenient and cheep, way to get there.

edit: fixed one of my embarrassing spelling errors.