a blog by Peter Leonard
10:00 am: Nobel Museum guided tour
Fun fact: Dynamite inventor Alfred wrote a play so explosively bad his own family members tried to destroy it. Only three copies survived.
Noon: Thanksgiving luncheon at the U.S. Embassy
Fun fact: the newly-installed security gate at the front of the embassy dwarfs the actual building.
2:00 pm: Guided tour of Stockholm City Hall.
Fun fact: yes, this gold mosaic is actually just as bizzare as it appears:
3:00 pm: Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, Ph.D., Anti-terrorism Coordinator, Department for Global Security, Foreign Ministry
Fun fact: She's a SIPA graduate.
4:00 pm: Iced Latte at Wayne's Coffee Kungsgatan with quite possibly the world's tallest Coast Guard officer, who's also a Fulbrighter.
Fun fact: That 500-kronor note in my wallet was actually Norwegian, not Swedish, as I discovered when I tried to spend it.
6:15 pm: Early North European Seminar: Kronologi och samhälleliga strukturförändringar under 500-talet with John Ljungqvist
Fun fact: We still really don't know the most fundamental aspects of the royal burial mounds' construction: when exactly they were built, or even in which order they were built.
