Making My Odyssey: Sweden

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4/01/2012

Stockholm (Nov 2011)

Finally! This is my retrospective of some fun trips that I've done about A HALF A YEAR AGO. I know. I should do updates more often!

So this bit is about my trip to Stockholm with Pictura, a photo club at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, my home town. For the record, I'm not at all happy with the way my photos turned out! I was too busy thinking about and writing a job application during this weekend, and this haunted my mind... Not good. Especially since I didn't get the job!:(

In short, this was our plan:

- Thursday evening: departure with Viking Line

- Friday morning: arrival, staying at Scandic Malmen (very good location)

- Saturday: Photo fair

- Sunday: guided tour in the Stockholm subway/metro (the most interesting part!). The tour was on the blue line. If you're interested in a art tour in the Stockholm metro, you can find more info here (see link!). You can do the tour by yourself (d.i.y.) or with a group it's better to book a tour with the guides.

Day 1, Friday (18.11.2011)

View from Kulturhuset, next to Sergels torg (Sergels square)

View from Kulturhuset, next to Sergels torg (Sergels square)

Evening walk.

Found this store. They sell books and stuff, mostly with a feminist and/or queer agenda.
I had seen the adverts when searching books for my studies.

Day 2, Saturday (19.11.2011)

Leaving for the photo fair. Söder train station.

Söder train station.

At photo fair.

Sorry for the nudity!:) I do not own the rights to this picture.
I salute Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin for her presentation and courage! (see link)

Captivated by Elisabeth.

Evening walk.

We went out for a beer in the evening.
My camera couldn't handle the poor light so here's a detail of the bar...

Day 3, Sunday (20.11.2011)

Our guide had a belly-radio!

Starting the tour.

Kungsträdgården (King's garden) metro station.

Kungsträdgården

In transfer.

For the ones without a sense of direction.

Can't remember where this was... But the signs say exit to Drottninggatan.

Stairway to hell?! Rådhuset metro station

Rådhuset metro station

Stadshagen metro station

Vreten metro station

Sundbybergs centrum metro station

Rissne metro station. The idea was that the different color pipes represent different countries and/or continents. The pipes have also a timeline.

Rissne metro station telling what happened year 500BC in Rome.

Rissne metro station.
"Through bishops and county priests the Pope's authority reaches every corner of Europe. In the 12th century there are over 2000 convents in western and eastern Europe. They offer work for craftsmen, refuge for the persecuted, care for the poor, shelter for the traveling and schooling for the children. They also test new methods in agricultre and function as centers for education."

Rissne metro station. "Plague reaches Europe".

The photos from the metro stations are a bit too edited, or what do you think?

11/16/2011

Planning: London and Stockholm

On my autumn break I went to London and that story and those nice pictures will still have to wait a while... I'm pretty busy with work these days, hoping it will get a bit easier in the next few weeks (when exam week number II is done).

Tomorrow I'm leaving to Stockholm with Pictura! Awesome! We're going to the Stockholm Photo Fair and doing some other cool stuff, too. The fair is not my favorite thing, but I'm looking forward to seeing some nice photos and presentations - and the museums, coffee shops, shopping, etc... Excited! Take a look how it looked and what we did last year, you can find the story here!

And PS: can't believe it's been a year already! :/
Yikes. Time really does fly...

6/12/2011

Stockholm in May

We did a trip to Stockholm from work (my school). Or you could call it work-related, but very little of the first part was involved:)

I took a few days off while the other teachers with the students only had one day off... I took the bus to Helsinki, then flew with Norwegian to Stockholm. I stayed at a, hmm, stuffy and yucky hotel (I don't recommend it if you have high standards) in Södermalmen. On my time "off duty" I met with friends for a few glasses of wine and in the morning I went to the photo museum (with exhibits of Jacob Felländer, Edward Burtynsky, Albert Watson). Fotografiska is a wonderful museum and they change the exhibits quite often, so one has to go there just as often to see the famous photographers! On the way there I saw a Swedish movie star Mikael Nyqvist!:)

The work-part was to visit Norra Real, a nice upper-secondary school in Stockholm. We met with the teachers and our students met with Swedish students, we talked and discussed Finland/Sweden/Russia -relations and so forth. The "work-part" was over quite fast.

Afterwards I went shopping and walked around in the city taking photos. The following morning i checked out from the stuffy hotel and went to see the exhibition of Gregory Crewdson at Kulturhuset (central STHM), and it was awesome! A few days break resulted in stress and a persistent flu, but the trip was nice despite this:)

Jacob Felländer - awesome!

This is what Norra Real school looks like! Not too shabby!
(The students called it Hogwarts:)

Gregory Crewdson at Kulturhuset.

2/04/2011

In Stockholm (25th-28th Nov 2010)

The very last days of November were spent with Pictura in Stockholm. We went there for a long weekend to see the Swedish Photo Fair (Fotomässan).

Programme:
Thursday:
boat Viking Line Turku- STHM. Dinner in the evening.
Friday:
breakfast at our hotel (Scandic Malmen), sightseeing/walking, lunch, Photo museum (Fotografiska muséet)
Saturday:
breakfast, East-Oriental museum with my friend Päivi (they had an exhibition of the Chinese Terracotta Army!), Fotomässan, dinner at an Indian restaurant in Södermalmen
Sunday:
butterflies at the House of Butterflies (Fjärilshuset), boat home STHM-Turku

Here are some photos from that excursion.