Hi. I'll be spending a month in Sweden and am looking for suggestions on places to go and things to do. <BR>In particular, I am wondering what the nightlife is like in Stockholm. <BR>Should I bother going to the other Scandinavian countries as well? <BR>I might go to Kristiansand, Norway. <BR>Thanks -- CB

You should defenetly go to Norway. I would rather go to Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Lillehammer or Tromsø instead of Kristiansand. Kristiansand is not a very exciting city to visit. Take a look at my earlier posting called Norway. It has a lot of links to Norway.

There is a daily train overnight from Stockholm to Trondheim, Norway. Trondheim is a beautiful and fascinating city, with friendly people (almost all Norwegians are more outgoing than the average Swede, who is often somewhat distant, if always courteous). <BR>You could leave Stockholm on the first day, arrive in Trondheim the morning of day 2, spend two nights in a hotel (there's one there called the Britannia that's quite good and well-located), board the sleeping car back to Stockholm on the evening ofday 4, and be back in Stockholm the morning of day 5. Tronfheim, being a university town, has better nightlife than most cities its size. English is Very Very Widely Spoken, so language ought not be a problem.

In case you stay in Stockholm, I warmly recommend you take an overnight ferry to Turku (Åbo) or Helsinki (Helsingfors) in Finland and stay a day or two. You won't regret it; check out the archipelago in between!

I must endorse Kaja's comments. If you do get the overnight from Stockholw to Trondeim, then its a great trip to work your way down the west coast thru Alesund....the trolls road, Bergen the across to Oslo...you would not regret it.