MissJay Anonyme: swedish

Friday, July 13, 2012

One Year Anniversary!!

Hi guys, today marks one year since I started this blog. Yes, today one year ago, I wrote my first post. I can't even believe that time has flown past this fast. I was in Kenya by this time last year. I started this blog to keep an account of things, places I visit, my experiences in general in my final 2 years of school. For posts on Kenya, I'll leave the links below.

If you are just stumbling on this blog, just a recap for you. I am a medical student (final year now...YAY) with a love for travel and photography. This blog is a way of bringing this three aspects together. As I said earlier, I started this blog for me, so that in some distant future I can recapture these times in my life.

Somehow, I can bring these aspects of my life together. My school allows students to take some Hospital practices outside the university and so I just make the most out of that. As a matter of fact, thats what I was doing in Kenya last year. This summer, for the last 5 weeks, I have been in a small town in Sweden called Uddevalla. It is part of Surgery rotation. The experience has been very positive as I found that swedish people are extremely nice even though I couldn't speak the Language (a very large percent of Swedish people speak English ). The doctors were all kind, just ask and they'll help. For that I am extremely grateful and pleased that I came here.

As for photos, I am extremely sorry that I have no photos. I have not carried my camera for about 3 months, for personal reasons I guess, maybe it's just lack of motivation or inspiration. I hope I can get to taking photos soon.

I will leave you with this one photo. It is of the Uddevalla bridge, very pretty, isn't it?

*I do not own the photos above*
Links to Kenya post
1. Safari
2. The rift valley
3. Camping site at masai mara
4. masai mara national reserve
5. The masai tribe
6. The beautiful land of masai mara
7. Mamba Village
8. Haller Park
9. Elective Africa

*ENJOY*

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Old Town Stockholm aka Gamla Stan

The city of Stockholm as it is known today is situated on 14 islands. There are also a lot of Lakes an canals. However the old town is the original Stockholm. The town was set up during the 1300 century. Most buildings are from the 1700 and 1800 century. The dominant building in the old city is the king's castle.

Heading towards "Old Town"...........TOURISTS!!!!

Royal Castle

The royal castle in Stockholm has 605 rooms. It is the biggest castle in world that is still in use by a king. The castle is the workplace for Karl XVI. The royal family lives in another palace outside Stockholm. Even though most of the rooms are open to the public, I didn't go in.

I couldn't get a good picture of the whole Palace because I was standing right in front of it. But this is what it looks like.

Got this photo from the internet...........very pretty, isn't it?

The view of the Parliament from the side of the Palace.

Up close.

The street just in front of the Parliament also facing the side of the Palace. This is where people gathered when the Swedish Princess got married and she addressed them from where I stood to take this photo.

Royal guards.

The back of the Palace where the "changing of guards" takes place.

Moving on to other parts of "Old Town".

There are a lot of cobblestone streets in Old Town but Vasterlanggatan is the old town's number one tourist street. During the summer period, there are lots of tourists that go for a walks along Vasterlanggatan. This is the easiest way to get a feel of the old town. There are often so many people on the street that it can be difficult to stroll along the street. Thankfully, I went at the end of summer, so it was not packed.