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“Män som hatar kvinnor” på engelska – “The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo”
Hollywood couldn’t possibly release a film called “Men Who Hate Women”, could they? Even though this was the original Swedish language title of the book by Stieg Larsson and movie, it just wouldn’t work for Hollywood, would it? “The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo” sounds far more reasonable, far more exotic, doesn’t it? Aside from [...]
Stockholm Porn
I indulged in a bit of “Stockholm Porn” tonight. I spent the day catching up with my friend Lucinda who I haven’t seen in a number of years. We first met (and shared a house) in the late 1980s when we lived and worked in Bourke. In the time since, we have kept in semi-regular [...]
A little bit of Sweden in Perth
It’s mid-afternoon in Perth, and I’m back in my room with the fan on maximum rotation trying to cool down after an interesting and busy day. I started the day off with a coffee, a smoked salmon baguette, and an apple strudel at a Swedish cafe. Even in Perth, there’s a little bit of Sweden, [...]
Year In Review 2011
It’s been a funny year. It’s been a mixed year. It’s been a year of ups and downs. Mostly it’s been a pretty good year, though there have been times. Yes, there have been times… I started the year catching a flight back from Lismore to Sydney. I’d been in Lismore for about ten days [...]
Merry Christmas
Normally we would have lunch with extended family at my sister’s place, but we broke with tradition this Christmas. This year, we went to my niece’s place to have lunch with her new extended family. In the last twelve months, she and her boyfriend have cemented their relationship with the purchase of a house together. [...]
You know it’s Christmas in a week and a day…
“Wrap myself in paper” by Magnus Carlsson has been my favourite “Christmas song” for the last few years. I discovered it at about the time I discovered the broader Magnus oeuvre and, although it’s camp and cheesy, I LOVE IT. The music is fun, the lyrics are playful, and Magnus sings it in just the [...]
Three Days in Stockholm
“What should we do in Stockholm?”, Damien asked me on the weekend. I was having a drink with him and Kristen, his fiance. They’re planning a trip to Europe in the early part of next year, including “three days in Stockholm”. “Three days is not enough time to spend in Stockholm”, I told them. But [...]
Södermalm? Gamla Stan?
As I waited for a meeting today at work, I flicked through a copy of the current edition of the Sydney Morning Herald’s “Sydney” magazine. “Gosh that looks like Stockholm”, I thought to myself as I flipped the pages. And then, of course, saw the name of the shop and realised it probably was. Södermalm?
Helsingborg Grey
As you’ll have noted from my right column on this blog, I’ve become quite an enthusiastic user of Google+ I’m a bit of a Google fan boy to start with, and I’ve had a bit of a bee in my bonnet about Facebook for quite some time. Instead, I’ve found Google+ to be a useful [...]
Swedishness and IKEA
As you arrive at the new IKEA at Tempe in Sydney, one of the first things you notice are the flags out the front. There’s a NSW flag, an Australian flag, and a Swedish flag all flying high. When it comes to “Swedishness”, however, that’s pretty much where it ends. One of the things I [...]
Slept Like A Log
As we touched down at about a quarter past ten local time in Brisbane, there was already a bit of an excitement in the air for passengers on our aircraft. I probably wasn’t the only one who was booked on a Qantas flight, but who needed to find an alternative, as Qantas management chose this [...]
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