Uppsala Travel Blogs

Visiting my friend in Sweden for holidays!

To me life is all about experiences! Meeting people, seeing new places, or just having fun!

My first trip abroad and first pictures i took

Setting off from Hong Kong in Aug 1992, 2 days after turning 22, I traveled China, Mongolia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltics, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, returning to Hong Kong in July 1993. Apart from Athens/Cairo, I never set foot on an airplane during this year-long walkabout. Before the days of digital cameras, internet, and mobile phones, this solo adventure was as much a discovery of myself as it was about these 31 countries. Many of them, like me, have long since changed.

ENGLISH VERSION CAN BE FOUND BELOW.   De ochtend begon vrij zonnig en na een lekker ontbijt braken we het kamp weer op om naar de volgende plaats te vertrekken. De eerste stop was Gamla Uppsala. We kwamen hier om ± 9.30 uur aan en het was de bedoeling om hier het openluchtmuseum te bezoeken…

Trying to create a map of a proposed tour.

A quiet city north of Stockholm... Which is actually full of "hidden" students... :-)

With my friend Paul, my sister Mirjam and her boy Gerard, we drove around Scandinavia hundreds of kilometres a day.

Tuesday, August 19, 20089:44 CESTCafe BaristaI landed at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm at 7:50 in the morning. From there, I collected my baggage, exchanged currency, and caught a bus in to Uppsala. The bus dropped me off at Central Station, and after a bit of wandering around I found a taxi to take…

Foto's van een lang weekend in Stockholm

Viaje por Dinamarca, Estonia, Letonia, Lituania, Finlandia y Suecia en Septiembre de 2006