Archive for September, 2006

From Russia with Disdain

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

I recently travelled through Sweden, Finland and Russia with my wife and 14-year-old son on a trip with his junior college orchestra.

Sweden was beautiful, the people thin, and curious of strangers (and travelers) the streets were clean and recycling was evident everywhere. Getting a beer cost approximately 5 U.S. dollars as the tax on alchohol [...]