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Category Archives: Environment
Rainbow Warrior in Gothenburg
The Greenpeace ship, The Rainbow Warrior, is in town. They are here to prevent deep sea trawling as it damages the fragile ocean floor and marine life there. GT have an article up entitled A Celebrity In Town. A few … Continue reading
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University of Cambridge celebrates 800 years
I was in Cambridge over the weekend and got to see some of the celebrations for the 800 year anniversary of the university. On Saturday night there was a wonderful light show projected on to the Senate House with illustrations … Continue reading
Posted in Cafés, Environment, Museums, Poem, Sites, Things to do
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Credit crunch riots
While the ‘first credit crunch riots’ in Greece, and ‘mobs causing violent scenes in Italy, Spain, Russia, Denmark and Turkey’ dotted web news this week – life in Sweden continues to be peaceful. The recession seems to be hitting hard … Continue reading
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Mike and Keita in Gothenburg
Keita and Mike arrived yesterday and bravely accepted the drizzling wet Gothenburg as a nice city. It’s not the best time of the year to see the place but native Göteborgians tell me that it rarely snows here and rain … Continue reading
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Celebrating Chomsky’s birthday
Week two of SFI passed uneventfully. It continues to be excellent although we can’t help but sit there letting about 70% of it wash over us as incompressible. It seems that usually someone or other understands what the teacher is … Continue reading
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A chilly Critical Mass
It’s All Helgona here in Sweden or All Hallows as it would be called in England – at least it was yesterday. Although we went on the Critical Mass last night I didn’t see anyone out on the street dressed … Continue reading
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Criticial Mass, Gothenburg.
Last night at 6pm I arrived in Gustav Adolf Torg to see the welcome sight of a bunch a cyclists with ‘bilfri stad’ tied onto their bikes. Accompanied by a handful of policemen in two vans they set off to … Continue reading
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Autumn creeping in
So autumn is creeping in with it’s chills and fallen leaves and it’s raining an awful lot here. Yesterday we crept out with raincoats and cycled up to Härlanda Tjärn which is a lake west of Göteborg. It was lovely … Continue reading
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The love affair with Sweden continues
So firstly, out of context and belatedly a big hugs and kisses congratulations to Will and Ella! Secondly you all need to be buying Now or Never because it’s as irreverent and hilarious as ever. Although it’s been out for … Continue reading
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Boiling hot sun drenched days
We’ve had several days of boiling hot sun drenched days. Unlike the avid sun tanners I am hiding inside and wisely refusing to go out until early evening just in case I droop, burn or perspire to death in the … Continue reading
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