http://ion.ciorici.com Ion's undeground Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:38:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photos by me © Photos by bb © http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/08/25/stockholm-by-night/ This weekend was reserved for a short-long trip to Kolmården Zoo (Kolmårdens Djurpark) - approx. 150km far from Stockholm. The Kolmården Zoo is Scandinavia’s largest Wildlife Park and basically is packed with quite exciting experiences, where you can meet almost 750 wild attractions from jungle, savannas and oceans. The main attraction ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/08/24/trip-to-kolmarden-national-park/ When you want to rent an apartment even in Botswana you just simple go to the owner of the apartment, sign some paper, give some cash and freely you can move in right the next day. In Sweden ....oh oh...crazy...it is like you marry the apartment :lol: . To manage ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/08/22/look-for-an-apartment-in-stockholm-impossible-go-to-poland/ When talking about Sweden all the time somehow comes to my mind IKEA, Volvo, Saab, ABBA, blond girls, nature and why not modesty. It looks that after visiting some of the royal residences the word modesty is not the most appropriate for this selected Swedish family. Below you'll find some ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/07/20/the-royal-residences-in-sweden/ I guess the title says all :wink: . Time is passing by so fast that we don't even realize how fast the seasons are changing, I still have the feeling that the university started yesterday: From now, for the moment no more homeworks, no more assignments and ***ty essays ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/07/06/graduationcelebration-workingtraveling/ When living abroad for a longer time it is impossible not to notice many strange things, which are sometimes really difficult to be described. Now on the queue is Storkolm or Stockholm, which is probably the biggest city in Sweden, but nobody really knows. Over the years, it has garnered a ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/06/07/strange-stockholm-and-swedish-national-day/ In front of the City Hall Anytime ready to defend from enemies and terrorists :cool: Love is in the air... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/05/24/spring-is-all-around-ii/ During the past week there were not so many gay events in Stockholm, except the Quarnevalen :smile: . Quarnevalen is kind of Scandinavian Rio de Janeiro carnival, the only difference is that you don't see nicely dressed Brasilian ladies, but strange Swedish students from Royal Institute of Technology, still there ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/05/18/too-busy-to-blog-but-still-blogging/ Maybe the main reason I agreed to go to Finland is because Finland is the motherland of the most weird events. You won't believe what the Finns are up to when it comes to weird annual events, contests, and similar activities...and so here they are, the world's weirdest events! 1. Wife ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/05/10/bienvenidos-a-suomi/ I guess the best word, which describes the last week is spontaneous random adventure :lol: . It started with a peaceful Monday morning in Sweden, but ended with less peaceful late nights somewhere in the Baltic Sea :oops: Monday - Tuesday My responsibilities at my old new job are becoming ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/05/06/25-springs-on-2-boats/ It's been a while since my assistant didn't post anything here, so I should try improve this situation. This time I'll tell you a story about how is to be an employee in Sweden. It started with a smile, then a warm “hello, how are you” and I then I told ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/04/25/cultural-shock-or-being-employed-in-sweden/ Stockholm’s Metro is said to be the longest art exhibition in the world - 110 km long. It is an exciting story stretching from the art pioneers of the 1950s to modern artistic experiments. Almost all stations have been adorned. In some 90 of the 100 Metro stations, passengers can enjoy an ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/04/06/art-and-architecture-in-the-metro/ http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/03/29/the-most-scenic-road-in-sweden-and-bienvenidos-a-norge/ I need a lot of dictionaries with synonyms to write this article. It's really impossible to write about one of the greatest day of my life - just a single day was enough to visit: - Astonishing Swedish Lappland - The highest mountain in Sweden - Kebnekaise - The immense Swedish and Norwegian frozen ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/03/28/lappland-a-pure-experience/ http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/03/23/lappland-is-coming/ Life standard and cost of living in Stockholm is quite high in comparison to Prague. When you are coming here your account shows few digits (in case you were working last summer :smile: ). Then you realize after 2 months that in order to enjoy your life at ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/03/19/news-new-job-new-colleagues/ After 2 weeks of no writing any posts and not having Internet here comes the boom as Mr. Mallon likes to say :lol: . I shall start first of all with more culturally things and then end with less culturally attractions :smile: . One place in Stockholm which is quoted ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/03/16/news-new-job-new-colleagues-new-photos/ Finally Winter is all around by Billy Mack/Nighy is not more valid for Stockholm :lol: Rising and setting times show interesting numbers for the next days and finally I have the opportunity to see what looks like the so called - Sun :cool: : Today, at long last, the ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/03/01/spring-is-all-around/ Can you imagine what may happen with Putin's vocation in case he will not be elected as a Prime-minister after the election which are on the 2nd of March 2008. Putin is very talented and surely he may find some occupation like: Merkel's personal tailor: or Hillary's personal washer: Queen's broider: Tiësto's assistant: or he can ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/02/23/mr-putins-occupation-after-the-elections/ Yesterday the City of Stockholm and the Stockholm County Council had the pleasure of my company :cool: at a reception with buffet at Stadshuset (City Hall). (this picture was attached to the invitation, so I suppose I have all the rights to post it on my commercial blog :???: ... http://ion.ciorici.com/2008/02/21/nobel-prize-for-every-international-student-in-stockholm/