I’ve probably had more contact with the police than the average person might expect to have, considering that I’m a law abiding citizen (of two countries) and I’m not one for excessive drinking or anything that could get me into trouble. This is entirely due to the fact that the world is full of stupid [...]
Category: Articles in English, Suède / Sweden, blog | Comments (6)In our quest to see as much as possible while in Japan, we included Tokyo Disney Sea in our itinerary. It’s a 176 acre (714,000 m²) theme park that sits outside of Tokyo, in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. It (and it’s sister park, Tokyo Disneyland) aren’t actually owned by Disney, but are instead licensed by The [...]
Category: Articles in English, Japon / Japan, Voyage / Travel | Comments (1)Hakone
One of our mini-trips from Tokyo was a sightseeing trip to Hakone, with the goal of seeing Mount Fuji and the hot springs.
Getting there is, to the least, complicated. First the subway lines to get you to a the special quaint Hakone-Tozan line train which zigzags (or if you want to be picky, it has [...]
As a part of the course I’m taking at Stockholm University, my class needed to go to Falun in order to do the interviews and research necessary for a field work report. (I’m studying ethnology aka cultural anthropology for Americans.) My research was actually focused on the wolves of Dalarna, the hunters, and the [...]
Category: Articles in English, Suède / Sweden | Leave a commentBefore I even begin describing Japan, I have to talk about *getting* to Japan. We left home at 11:45AM on a Monday and arrived at Tokyo Airport at 3:30PM Tuesday, local time. It was a very long trip with a changeover in London. The flight to London was pretty commonplace, although the airport itself was [...]
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