June 2008 Archives

So I have it all planned out - I will be interested in seeing how well my plan will resemble what actually happens once I begin this trip.

So I am presenting this as how one can go from the Stockholm-Arlanda Airport to the island of Utö, though on a theoretical level, based on timetables and facts that are readily available on the internet.

For this year's trip, I wanted to do something different, though I know that I wanted to go back to Sweden.

Originally that plan was to spend a week or two in Stockholm. I had spent a week in Stockholm in 1996 after I finished my summer language studies at the Blekinge Läns Folkhögskola in Bräkne-Hoby, but at the time I was a poor student, with only 200 SEK in my pocket and on a shoestring budget. There were so many things that I wanted to do at the time which were simply not possible, because of money issues.

My pastor is from Stockholm, so I asked for his opinion on what fun things there is to do in Stockholm in the summer, and he recommended island hopping, something I had heard of, but which I never really considered.

It has been more than 10 years since I have last been in Sweden - it is time to go back!

The last time I was in Sweden, I was studying music composition at the Juilliard School in New York City under David Diamond, and taking a Swedish extra curricular course at Columbia University with Verne Moberg.

Quite a lot has happened in the twelve years since then, but some things never change.