Our Trip to Scandinavia and World Tourism Day

I just returned from a trip to Scandinavia with my son and his wife. Since it is World Tourism Day today (September 27th) I thought I’d make a post related to our trip. I already made five posts about our trip on my new blog Super-Factful so what I am going to do is just link to those five posts. See below.

Three people standing on a boat on the fjord
From a cruise in Sognefjord, Norway. Left to right, me, my oldest son  and his wife. Click on the image to visit my post titled : “Tourism in Scandinavia on World Tourism Day”
My photo of Drottningholm castle taken from the garden, a very large garden.
Drottningholm, one of the Royal Palaces in Sweden. It was built in the 1660’s and was inspired by Versailles. Click on the image to visit my post titled : “Sweden and Norway and Carl XIV Bernadotte”
Painting showing a king with an interesting hairdo and wearing a large robe.
Painting of Gustav I Vasa the father of Sweden. Fashion was somewhat different back in the day. Click on the image to visit my post titled : “Sweden and Denmark and Gustav I Vasa”
An image AI-illustration of a Huldra
Imagining how a Huldra (female magical creature) would look like. Stock AI-generated image ID: 2400845203 by Shutterstock AI Generator. Click on the image to visit my post titled : “Scandinavian Folklore”.
A photo of the Vasa Ship taken from below.
A photo of the Vasa ship from the bottom floor. My son is standing on the right in a green and black shirt. Click on the image to visit my post titled : “Vasa Museum Stockholm”.
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Author: thomasstigwikman

My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.

31 thoughts on “Our Trip to Scandinavia and World Tourism Day”

    1. Thank you so much Damyanti. Sognefjord is amazing. It is surrounded by very tall mountains and it is one mile deep despite being less than half a mile wide. The Vasa ship was the largest war ship in the world back in 1628.

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    1. Well, what women often forget is that men who are not sporting a beard have to shave their face almost every day. It is the forgotten suffering………well that was just a silly joke. It was upper 50’s (Fahrenheit), not too bad with a light jacket, but you are right, with bare legs, that would have been cold. I did my army service on the Swedish – Finnish border in winter, above the polar circle, and it was often below 40 (in both Fahrenheit and Celsius) and that was cold.

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