A mental note: things to do in Sweden
A few weeks back, I was in Sweden. With family. Who are… a little more normal than I am.
Accordingly, we went to a play farm and a mediæval fishing village that has nice coffee shops, and Stockholm Gamla Stan and such-like. All genuinely fine places to visit, and all good fun.
But I find I'm accumulating a wish-list of stranger things to visit:
Starting with the most normal: the Nationalmuseum. Somewhat vexingly, it closed for a major refurbishment mere days before my visit in 2013. It then reopened mere days before my visit this year, but I couldn't squeeze it into my schedule. Soon, soon!
There are some self-driving shuttle buses in Kista, a northern suburb of Stockholm. I've never been in a self-driving road vehicle.
Out in the wilds north of Uppsala is Dragon Gate, a bizarre failed Chinese cultural centre, now semi-abandoned. This Twitter thread suggests it's probably strange enough to be worth a visit.
Meanwhile, Stockholm has been busy upgrading various motorway interchanges to the North of the city centre, dynamiting huge new holes in the ground for things and stuff. Allegedly, as part of these shenanigans they've installed some direction signs that are basically huge LED matrices and can be dynamically reconfigured to say whatever they like. I'm struggling to find any images of them, but if true it sounds awesome! (To me, as a road geek.)
Ytterby is the tiny village where gadolinite comes from: the ore in which seven new elements were discovered. One got named after Gadolin himself, one after Stockholm, one after Thule. The other four all got named after the village!
The Telefonplan Tower has a permanent art installation: lights in each floor that anyone can vary the colour of using their mobile phone.
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Accordingly, we went to a play farm and a mediæval fishing village that has nice coffee shops, and Stockholm Gamla Stan and such-like. All genuinely fine places to visit, and all good fun.
But I find I'm accumulating a wish-list of stranger things to visit:
Starting with the most normal: the Nationalmuseum. Somewhat vexingly, it closed for a major refurbishment mere days before my visit in 2013. It then reopened mere days before my visit this year, but I couldn't squeeze it into my schedule. Soon, soon!
There are some self-driving shuttle buses in Kista, a northern suburb of Stockholm. I've never been in a self-driving road vehicle.
Out in the wilds north of Uppsala is Dragon Gate, a bizarre failed Chinese cultural centre, now semi-abandoned. This Twitter thread suggests it's probably strange enough to be worth a visit.
Meanwhile, Stockholm has been busy upgrading various motorway interchanges to the North of the city centre, dynamiting huge new holes in the ground for things and stuff. Allegedly, as part of these shenanigans they've installed some direction signs that are basically huge LED matrices and can be dynamically reconfigured to say whatever they like. I'm struggling to find any images of them, but if true it sounds awesome! (To me, as a road geek.)
Ytterby is the tiny village where gadolinite comes from: the ore in which seven new elements were discovered. One got named after Gadolin himself, one after Stockholm, one after Thule. The other four all got named after the village!
The Telefonplan Tower has a permanent art installation: lights in each floor that anyone can vary the colour of using their mobile phone.
Cross-posted from this Dreamwidth original. If you can, please comment there instead.
DW Comments: Read
or Add Your Own.