Uppsala!

When walking to and from the hospital/
university everyday I get to enjoy the beautiful gardens of Uppsala. Being just a short trainride from Stockholm Uppsala is a nice daytripp, has a lot to offer in terms of Swedish history plus it's a nice town with a good atmosphere! I'll give you a proper guide later on this week, meanwhile enjoy a few pics..

Old town right now

I Love Stockholm!!

Pictures are the new black..

well sort of.. Anyhow I'll try to use the blogger app to post pictures to give you a better idea of what we are up to here, and what there is to do. Enjoy!

2nd place in the FINAL!

Today was the day that we got to compete in the final of this year’s edition of student entrepreneur of the year in Sweden. With a chance of proceeding to the main event in NY, stakes were quite high to say the least, and competition was fierce..

No not at all! The other two contestants were lovely, we had a great time and it was a lot of fun to exchange ideas with other entrepreneurs.

All three finalists, Absoluteapartment, Verendus and Blåbärsgården, got to present their companies in front of a jury of 8 who then proceeded to question us, our ideas and intentions. We couldn't have had more different companies if we had tried but all of us had an unique idea, and we went for it. 

All in all, it was a great day, I learnt a lot, got some really good ideas from a few of the jury members and the presentation was very good if I may say so. I also scored a few more apartments for the rest of you to book! =)  I might also buy a few Blueberry bushes..
In the end, we winded up in second place, the winner Verendus was already doing amazingly well, the idea and the brilliant company might actually win the whole thing. I wish Dick Petersson the best of luck in NY and thank Entreprenörskapsforum for a great day!

Stockholm Ghost walk, well worth it!

Picture taken from Do today

So we finally got to do the famous Ghost walk and we can certainly recommend it to anyone and everyone, perhaps not the youngest children though.

We started out at Järntorget in Old town and then followed our guide through the narrow alleys of Old town through Stockholm’s history via great battles, blood baths, diseases and whorehouses. Our guide made the old stories and legends come to life, made us jump a few times with her great approach to old murders of famous people throughout the hundreds of years of history. We were quite a big group, aged between 7 and 70 I'd say and everyone enjoyed themselves vividly. I'm sure all guides have more or less the same approach to the tour so you will not be disappointed even if you don't get our amazing guide.. =)

Since this entry was for you guys, we decided to go all in and try out one of the dinnerpackages that they offered and we winded up on Engelen. This is an old and quite famous restaurant in Old town, they do quite a lot of live bands and the guests are mainly in their forties out for a good night. 

It was a set 3 course dinner, at great value I might add, and we were not disappointed at all. In the end we stayed on for a few more drinks, enjoyed the band and had a very nice evening. 

All in all, we strongly recommend Stockholm Ghost walk and we hope that you take the opportunity to enjoy it when you are in Stockholm!

Final in the Student Entrepreneur!

Wow aren't we proud!

Absoluteapartment made it to the final of the Swedish edition of the GSEA competition for Global student entrepreneurs. This is naturally a great honor and I couldn't be happier! 

It's thanks to all of our wonderful hosts and guests that we came all this way, and I hope we will go a lot further. Our aim is as always set as high as possible so if we somehow would manage to win the Swedish edition (after all, it's only us and two other great companies left..) then we will be of for the Global Final in NY in early November. 

Keeping our fingers crossed that we will get the honor of joining the other companies over there even though we are more then happy to be top 3 in Sweden.

Best of luck to all the participants!

Stockholm Ghost walk

On friday, me and two friends are going to check out Stockholm Ghost walk that we heard so much about, I'll be sure to update you on how it all went. I'm also going to try to get some sort of cooperation with them for our guests, I'll get back to you on that as well. What they do are guided half theatrical tours through Old town, based on true stories of the famous and not so famous people who lived and mainly died here. Going to be great fun!

Picture taken from the website

Swedish summer, Part one

Ok I admit, most of you have figured it out already anyway, I’m a lousy blogger.. But it’s been a very hectic summer, trying to split my time between the rental business, enjoying the Swedish summer and repainting my grandparents old house. Along the way I’ve picked up some great things to do however so I’ll communicate them right away instead of making more excuses so that you'll have some things to do next summer! 

June;

Biggest event in June is always Midsummers, it shouldn’t be, it should be the National day 6th of June, but it isn’t. I celebrated mine partly in Leksand, famous for their huge celebrations and you can see some of it on the above You tube clipp 
If you plan to go next year, a great place to start is Siljan. They also boost a lot of other useful information about Dalarna, a nice place to be if you want to leave the bigger cities during the summer.

Photo of a Hälsingegård taken by Jakob Dahlström

In July I mostly painted the farm, looking like this in the end, very proud of myself. Luckily, it’s located in Hälsingland and something called Hälsingegårdar traditionally old farms from this region, became a world heritage according to UNESCO. This might not sound like much fun but they are truly amazing! The paintings in some of these places are just too good to be true. I got to see 3 of them and I can strongly recommend it for anyone heading this way! I found this excellent brochure just now in English for you guys to study. I can also very much recommend the website Hälsingegårdar  There are several campsites and smaller guests houses to stay at if you want to hang around for a while. 
So ther you go, two things I recommend if you are here next summer!

Upcoming events in Stockholm

At Kunsträdgården during A taste of Stockholm

I was so excited about the links I found that I completely forgot the original plan, give you an update on what’s going on in Stockholm the upcoming weeks. To say the least, we have quite a lot of things happening but I’ll list my favorites:

26^th-27^th of May

Elitloppet

Some of the guests waiting for the race to start..

 One of the top 3 trotting races in the world, Sweden’s equivalent to Prix d’amerique or Hambletonian. Just 30 minutes away with buses leaving from central station I wouldn’t miss this for the world.

 

1^st-6^th of June 

A taste of Stockholm

A food festival in kungsträdgården where you can sample food from all over the world, have a glass of wine in the sun and enjoy smaller concerts. A great way to see Stockholm.

1^st-6^th of June 

At the starting point

Stockholm Culinary week

Just as it says, a culinary experience!

2^nd of June  

Stockholm Marathon

Doesn’t need an introduction does it?

6^th of June, 

Swedens national day!

A day to celebrate, enjoy the oncoming summer and have fun with family and friends.

Links about Sweden Part 2

It’s always fun to read about your home country, the way someone else experience it. I try to collect links in English that I find interesting and that I believe you will as well. Enjoy!

9 out of 10 tourists are happy with their stay in Sweden

From Old Town to South Island this city is atraveler's dream

Stockholm Sweden Skansen

Marcus Samuelsson’s Sweden