Sweden, part 1: Casual beginnings

After some brief exchanges, my friend Bob and I planned a trip to Sweden for Christmas. When I say brief exchanges, I mean two sub-minute conversations with a drunken man at farewell parties, two e-mail messages and a partridge in a pear tee. By this stage we had dates and flights and everything. Very organised, I think!

(Continued in part 2, part 3 and part 4)

Update June 2006: Added links to the mayhem that followed.