This week I went to Helsinki on fall break. It was nice, but not fantastic. As I've told everyone I've talked to, Helsinki is pretty similar to Stockholm, but not as good. Seeing Finnish everywhere made me miss Swedish (though all of the signs, even the street names, were also printed in Swedish, so I can't complain too much). I did get to ( Read more... )

Yesterday I spent the day with Sonus, my spelmanslaget (there is not a word for it in English - basically it's a large-ish group of people who play folk music together on a regular basis). We trekked around Stockholm for a while, trying to find a place to rehearse. We started out in a hospital at noon, played in the hallway for a while when we ( Read more... )