No seriously. I booked my flight already, leaving on the 22nd (yes, this Saturday), and it cost me $550 including carry on luggage, some travel insurance, and a seat selected on the way home. I do have a hotel cost in Iceland on my way there of $70. I’m not crying about it though. So … Read more
Better late than never! Thanks to the Internet you can watch the live Eurovision show in Stockholm. It is also going to be shown on Bravo in the United States if you still have cable.
Eurovision is pretty huge in Sweden, and Sweden’s If I Were Sorry sung by Frans is #9 going in.
It’s at noon Arizona time, which means noon PST and 3pm EST. Watch it on Eurovision.tv.
In the mean time, you can watch Frans. Lycka till!
The rapper Snoop Dogg had a concert in Uppsala, the large college town only about an hour from Stockholm. On his way back to Stockholm, around midnight, his vehicle was stopped by a random vehicle check by the Stockholm police. Kinda like our random drunk driving stops in America.
Not surprisingly, Snoop Dogg looked under the influence. (He probably has taken so many drugs he is on a permahigh.) So they took him in to test him. He was a bit pissed off about being taken to the police station. Says it was racial profiling and says he will never return to Sweden.
The video above you can see a video when he is “getting arrested”. Though you don’t see or hear the police much at all.
Dude, you talk about doing drugs ALL THE TIME. I’m pretty sure just being Snoop Dogg is enough to suspect that you will have drugs on you.
I have to say, it is very interesting reading the English versions of the story, and the Swedish versions of the story.
The first I heard about it was English. Snoop Dogg Arrested in Sweden, Claims It Is Racial Profiling & Vows Never to Return.
Well, I didn’t hear about the racial profiling part in the video. And again, random stop, and again, you are SNOOP DOGG. Why wouldn’t you have drugs?
Then another English article talks about how he blasts the police on the Instagram video.
Now, how is that blasting? So you didn’t do drugs. Ok, at least your smart not to bring drugs into a country where pepper spray is illegal to carry.
The Swedish article? He wasn’t arrested, he was stopped. It wasn’t racial, it was random. He wasn’t arrested. He was taking in for a drug test. They didn’t say the drug test didn’t come back, they said that they weren’t going to comment. And they didn’t even say that he was driving, but that he was a passenger!
Snoop Dogg stoppades av polis efter Sverigekonserten
Where does this stuff get lost in translation?
My “bonus” son says the answer is “Google”. Too true.
Ok, one more thing to add to the “Sweden is Amazing” list. Now in Sweden, when you give blood, you will get a text when your blood is used to help someone. Sweden started this initiative in Stockholm 3 years ago, and it has had such good success, they are rolling it out country wide. About … Read more
In Stockholm, we are waiting for spring to arrive. It’s quite cold for being the second half of March and I think almost everybody is longing for the sun to warm our frozen limbs. Usually, we get some warmth when the sun starts to rise higher and higher on the sky moving towards midsummer. This … Read more
“Julskyltning” or “skyltsöndag” as it is usually called is a tradition in Sweden since mid-late 19th century. In the middle of the 19th-century the shops started make special preparations before Christmas by decorating their display windows. It took a few years and in the late 19th-century it made a breakthrough as a happening before Christmas. … Read more
This is the first known picture of a Swedish Lucia. It was painted in 1848 on Koberg Castle in Västergötland (today the residence of Princess Desirée, the king’s sister). The artist was lieutenant-colonel and count Fritz von Dardel, owner of the castle and aide-de-camp to king Karl XV. Von Dardel, who married one of the … Read more
I’m just taking a break from my study “homework” to write this article. I’ve been battling with a bunch of questions while sitting in the wonderful biblioteket (library) of Medborgarplatsen. Well, time passes and I need to go to the toilet. What you would expect to do in a normal library of Italy is just … Read more
And so it happened, one day I woke up knowing that I had a plane from Fiumicino di Arlanda. It was the day that one of my biggest dreams became true. I remember looking outside the windows of the airplane, from Germany on there was a layer of clouds which covered the whole ground. I … Read more