Sweden

Stowaway Mouse Flies to Oslo Solo

Mouse © Elena Gurzhiy An elusive little rodent was the only passenger on board a flight from Stockholm to Oslo on Wednesday evening as Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) sought Norwegian mousetrap expertise to snare the ticketless traveller. “We’re hoping to be able to catch the mouse in Oslo. There, they allow the use of a sort [...]

Swedish Dish a Bigger Hit Outside of the Old Country

Swedish holiday feast, featuring lutefisk © smithsonianmag.com It will most likely send shivers down your spine, but the traditional Swedish dish, lutefisk (lye-soaked cod, drenched in butter), is more popular in the United States than in Scandinavia. Far more lutefisk is consumed in the United States, much of it in church and lodge basements. In [...]

UFO Inspired Hotel Takes Off in Sweden

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói ©Rodrigo_Soldon Beam yourself up to a UFO-inspired hotel in the mountains of Sweden. The new spaceship-in-a-tree hotel was built by Treehotel–a hotel company renowned for its innovative designs. And the aliens aren’t the only things that are green. The hotel is cast in durable compost material and features environmentally [...]

Drunk Swedish Moose Found in Tree

Moose© A. Poulos A Swedish moose, apparently sloshed out of its mind from eating fermented apples, was found in a tree last week. Per Johansson says he heard a roar from his vacationing neighbor’s garden in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday and went to have a look. There, he found a female moose kicking about in [...]

Sweden’s Ice Hotel Reveals ‘Tron-Inspired’ Suite

If this isn’t begging to be linked to, I don’t know what is. Designers at Sweden’s Ice Hotel have revealed a new suite inspired by Disney’s new movie Tron: Legacy: Inspired by Disney’s release of Tron: Legacy, the British designers Ben Rousseau and Ian Douglas-Jones set out to capture the dynamism and essence of the [...]

Lost City Of 25,000 Man-Hungry Swedish Lesbians Grinds China’s Internet To A Halt

© Kadir Celik If the interwebs awarded a trophy for Headline Of The Day, today obviously wouldn’t be close. But this is for real. China is on fire with a rumor that Sweden is hiding a town of 25,000 sex-hungry erstwhile lesbians, where the gates are guarded by Amazons who savagely beat intruders and where [...]

Stockholm Invaded By Bank Robbing Bond Villians

© Wiki-observer We’ve been on a bit of a thing about how the US is getting outpaced in the “creative international crimes” department, with our public pot growers getting decimated by guys cultivating grade-A chronic in the middle of Greek motorways. Nothing highlights this disturbing trend better than two different crime stories that came over [...]

Photo of the Moment: Sunset Girl in Gotland, Sweden

© Per Ola Wiberg (Powi) In the photographer’s words: There was a young girl sitting by the edge of the big hill and watching the sun set in the ocean. She was very talkative and told me she came here every evening to see the sun go down, gave her comfort and inner strength … [...]

Photo of the Moment: Färentuna Church, Sweden

Photo of the Moment: Ice Hotel Church, Sweden

World’s Oldest Tree (8,000 Years Young) Found in Sweden

Scientists have identified a cluster of spruce trees in the Dalarna Province of Sweden as being the oldest in the world. The Norway spruce trees were found in a mountainous region in Western Sweden. Carbon dating tests have revealed one of the trees to have taken root around 8000 years ago, which officially makes it [...]

Experiencing Pure Darkness in Stockholm’s Färgfabriken Art Gallery

“Only when standing in a pitch-dark room do you realize that you actually start to see. Even in the perfect darkness, there is always some kind of light.” – John Duncan Darkness – true darkness – isn’t something I expect to see as a city traveler, in gothic cathedrals built to lift worshipers’ eyes to [...]

Tiny Thieves Leave a Trail of Robberies

This story is almost too outrageous to be true. Cops looking for clues to a spate of robberies across Sweden have reached the conclusion that they were committed by a person of “very short stature” hiding in large sports bags. The modus operandi apparently is quite simple. Members of the racket board a bus, and [...]

Emotion Sensitive Lighting for Buildings: What Color is Your City Today?

So you thought you were the only one feeling blue? In Stockholm, the Haymarketscrapers towers reflect the mood of citizens by changing color. Purple signifies deep depression, while a bright red means citizens are happy, happy, happy! How do the towers know citizens’ emotional state of mind? Simple. People can rate their mood for the [...]

Virgin Galactic Plans Tours Into the Northern Lights

No one can accuse Richard Branson of thinking small. His ambitious Virgin Galactic Spaceport in New Mexico won’t be ready for operations until 2010, but that hasn’t stopped the maverick entrepreneur from announcing another equally large scale project. This time Branson wants to fly rich space tourists to watch the most spectacular light show in [...]