13 June 2018, Wednesday Today, I’ll be leaving Stockholm for Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It will be the 11th country I’ll be setting foot on since departing Singapore 44 days ago. For those who are unaware, the concept I had for this trip was to take one flight out of Singapore to Europe and […]
Category: Sweden
12 June 2018, Tuesday Yesterday was very action-packed and I had a really good time, especially at the ABBA Museum and Gröna Lund. For my second full day in Stockholm today, I wanted to take it easy and explore at a more relaxed pace. As usual, the weather forecast was great – a sunny day […]
11 June 2018, Monday I’m 42 days into my Grand Adventure, and Sweden is the 10th country I have visited thus far. My accommodation here is Generator Stockholm, a chain of large hostels that are run more like hotels. I had stayed at Generator Hamburg earlier in the trip and I found the professional, business-like […]
Europe | Norway | Sweden | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure: Day 41 – Norway (Bergen/Oslo) / Sweden (Stockholm)
10 June 2018, Sunday After spending nine fabulous days in Norway (excluding today), the time had come to say goodbye to this amazing country and move on to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It was going to be a long day of travelling as I would have to first take a train from Bergen to […]
Europe | Norway | Sweden | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure: Day 32 – Sweden (Gothenburg) / Norway (Oslo)
1 June 2018, Friday I woke up very early this morning because I had a 6:55am train to catch. In fact, I could very well have been woken up by my roommate’s snoring rather than by my mobile phone’s alarm. I had the “fortune” of having snoring roommates for the past three nights so I […]
Denmark | Europe | Sweden | The Grand Adventure 2018
The Grand Adventure: Day 31 – Denmark (Copenhagen) / Sweden (Gothenburg)
31 May 2018, Thursday Today marks a milestone…it’s Day 31 of my trip and it means that this is the longest I have ever been away from home. My previous record was set in 2012, when I went on a 30-day backpacking trip around Asia to celebrate my 30th birthday. So it has been a […]