Michael Carøe Andersen

Tag: sweden

  • Scandinavian Capitals

    The Scandinavian trip was great and – as expected – very expensive. Once you are used to Czech prices everything in Scandinavia is quite expensive – especially for alcohol.

    Anyways we had a great time and got to cover a lot of ground in the 10 days the trip lasted. We started out with four people Andres (Ecuador), me, Femi (Northern Ireland) and Mehmet (Turkey) here in Copenhagen, King’s Garden in front of Rosenborg Castle.

    In the Kings Garden

    The best thing about the trip was reconnecting with a lot of friends. In Copenhagen we stayed and partied with Moses, Daniel and the rest of the old IAESTE Copenhagen crew. Went to concert with Sophie who was in Prague last summer. I met my cousin Rikke for some drinks, my thesis buddy Mikkel made a great dinner and my best childhood friend Johannes gave me lunch. Michael, a friend from bording school saw on Facebook that I was coming to town and joined one of the parties and old university buddies Sohl and Corneliussen joined at Christiania.

    It was great being back in Copenhagen on some of the early summer days and we did cover some of the touristy spots like Nyhavn.

    Nyhavn

    We jumped on the boat to Oslo and sailed through the night and woke up in Norway. We needed some recouping sleep after Copenhagen and the cabin on the boat was just right for that.

    The Copenhagen-Oslo boat

    We walked the city of Oslo for the day and met up with Mikkel from my university who showed us Vigelands Parken. After a day of strolling Oslo we took a bus at midnight towards Stockholm.

    Vigeland Sculpture Park

    After a bumpy night on the bus we came to Stockholm very early and checked in to our hostel and went out to see the town. Two more friends from Prague, Murat (Turkey) and Jeremie (France) joined us and for the rest of the trip. Here is a female guard from the Royal Palace in Stockholm, do we have that in Denmark?

    Royal guard

    We found a cheap cabin on the boat to Helsinki so the whole grouped went further east for a cruise. It took one night in each direction and then we had a day to walk the city of Helsinki. He we are in front of the orthodox church.

    Orthodox Church in Helsinki

    Back in Stockholm we met up with Backsell, and Freddy two friends we met in Michigan. They showed us the nightlife of Stockholm and the fashionable Sturaplan in particular.

    Backsell and Femi at Stureplan

    After 10 days of traveling and partying it was nice to get home.

    There is 200 pictures from Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki on flickr.


  • The Scandinavian Tour

    Sweden Books?

    Friday morning we are four guys heading on a tour of Scandinavia to see friends and have a good time. First stop will be Copenhagen for the weekend then the boat to Oslo for a day and then bus across to Stockholm. Not everything is planned out yet but Im sure well have a lot of fun on the way.

    This will be part of the group from the BeNe(no-lux) trip.

    The picture above is Martin the Swede at a Swedish book store in Baltimores more shady area where Adult Entertainment and Swedish Books apparently go hand in hand :)

    Follow the progress at twitter/gelle.

    Update May 1st: Our hosting in Stockholm fell through so we are looking for a couch or floor to borrow from Tuesday to Thursday for two of us.

    Update May 12th: We found a host through Couch Surfing :) Thanks Daniel


  • Will it snow?

    I havent made a proper post here for a long, long time. Sorry for that – let me get you up to speed.

    December flew away with a job in Denmark were I held a seminar on how to do interaction design. After that gig I travelled across the country meeting with Rasmus in Randers, Rikke and Lene in århus, sister and family in Odder, met with Femi and partied with the boys in Copenhagen and ended up cruising Lund/Malmø with the Swedes.

    Fast forwarding I spend Christmas in Toftlund and New Years Eve in Aalborg with old university buddies. I stayed in Aalborg for a couple of weeks and worked on a project with the good guys of CommunicateIT. I then headed to my parents place.

    All the while I had been checking records, looking at dmi.dk for long term weather forecasts because Ann was coming to Denmark at the end of January – and as a Maltese she had never seen snow fall. Chances of snow in Denmark are however not that big, we get it occasionally during the winter but its not that common. To give you an impression the last 100 years Denmark has been covered by snow 7 times on Christmas Day. End of January came and it looked like all we would be getting was the first storm of the year.

    Ok, so finally Ann came to Denmark and we had a great week seeing place, meeting people and enjoying each others company. We started out in Copenhagen (without a camera) were we walked around a little bit and then went to see Mozarts Lucio Silla at the Royal Theatre.

    Royal theater

    Neither of us had seen an opera before so it was an interesting experience but it didnt really blow us away. The next day we walked a bit more and saw Nyhavn, the Royal Palace and The Marble Church.

    We drove back home to Jylland just in time before they closed the two main bridges in Denmark due to the storm. Back in the sticks we went out to a farm close by were we got to greet some of the newborns.

    Ann and her new friend

    The next day we headed to the oldest town in Denmark, Ribe were we saw the old cathedral and went up the tower nearly to be blown off. Ribe is a cozy little town but the weather was really bad with rain and wind so we didnt make it that far in our layers upon layers of warm cloths.

    Me and Ann in Ribe

    The whole family joined together for the weekend on the island of Fanø (a bit less than 1/5 the size of Malta). We spend the weekend in a summer house, well heated by the the wood stove having it hyggeligt.

    Studying Magnus' birthday present
    Me, Magnus and Ann
    Sis and Ann
    The
    Magnus and his grand mom
    Family portrait

    The storm had past the west coast and lo and behold it its wake came this

    The snow starts falling
    Snowflake inspection
    Snow all over
    Mogens taking a hit
    The proud snowman builders

    Enough snow for a proper snow fight and enough to build a small snow man.

    All in all a nice cosy family weekend and I really enjoyed showing Ann my family and vice versa. The day after I followed Ann to Bremen were her flight was from and I continued on to Prague.

    Its nice to be back home in Prague although it is still really cold here. In little more than a month Im going to Malta again for some rays of Ann and rays of sun :)


  • The Swedish Invasion

    Back in 1631 a Swedish army invaded Prague and now they are back! – This time with a more peaceful aim.

    Backsell the Swede was an intern in Michigan at the same time as Femi and I and after spending a year in Germany him and Toni (another Swede) did a trip of central Europe before heading home.

    Its a weekend of Swedish style drinking, snus chewing snusing and partying sprinkled with a little touristy activities in the mix.