Back from Tropical Sweden
The bus driver takes one look at us with our suitcases and says, “Sorry, we don’t allow tourists on this bus.” We are astonished and I actually take a step […]
Category Archives: Sweden
Working Summers in Sweden, 1947 & 1948
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story, dating back to after World War 2, is from my dad’s journal of memories. There are two special mountains near Venersborg, Sweden. They are like […]
A Logging Accident in Sweden, 1948
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story, from my dad’s journal of memories, tells of his journey to Sweden on his Harley where he worked for some months logging on an estate. In […]
Over the Handlebars, Sweden 1947
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story, which dates back to just after World War 2, is from my dad’s journal of memories. Just before I was laid off from my tobacco harvest job […]
In Sweden with ‘that Devil Dane’, 1946
Note from Editor/Daughter: This story dates back to just after World War 2, from my dad’s journal of memories. I met with Poul Kofod in Copenhagen and from there we […]
Winter Logging in Sweden, 1947
From my Dad’s memories of spending a winter felling trees north of Stockholm (1947). I longed to get back into the clean air and went to the labour office that […]
