Happy New Year Travel Blog readers.  we thought that a light hearted article would help brush away the winter blues – we hope you enjoy this and wish you happy travelling in 2010

If you are planning a visit to Scandanavia beware of street sellers offering shoes.

Here’s a little shoe stealing trick we read about in the Times

Swedish police following the progress of theives that stole single shoes (left) from shoe shop displays in Malmo, Sweden were tracked travelling to nearby Copenhagen, Denmark which is only half an hour train jouney away.

The city of Copenhagen was recently in the headlines because it played host to the 2010 Copenhagen climate change fail conference  It was discovered that Danes have a preference for displaying the right shoes and therfore enabling the theft of a complete pair.

The Swedes are lobbying for international rules to be drawn up in order that all countries display the same side shoe.  125 shoe shop owners in Malmo have informally requested that the several hundred footwear shops in Copenhagen switch the traditional Danish right hand display to conform with the left therby twarting the shoe thiefs.

The debate has already begun in Denmark but in the aftermath of the disapointing talks about the effects of climate change it is expected to be some time before any shoe display concensus is reached.  Getting the Danes to display only the left shoe as well — was rejected by Marie Andersen, a shop assistant in Copenhagen. “There is no point in switching to left shoes, since in Germany they display the right shoes,”

Stockholm and Gothenburg

We simply collected the best activities from both cities and put them i n neat little packages – now its 32 seconds left of theeiss film and i need to describe the content

Swedish City Breaks

Stockholm and Gothenburg in neat little packages –

Hej! Visit Sweden have made it really simple for you to go to SWEDEN. And more specifically – to Stockholm and Gothenburg – the best cities in the world according to the humble visit Sweden team. Watch this short film to learn about neat little packages.

Stockholm

In Stockholm you can visit the royal families favourite hangouts, drink cocktails in a bar made of ice , play the main character of a famous crime novel, eat cakes at the grand hotel, watch a singing procession of white clad people with candles in their hair, update your wardrobe in trendy sofo, go ice-skating in the middle of the city or parachute down to you own treehouse.

Gothenburg

In Gothenburg you can stay in a lighthouse, go on a lobster safari, see the city lit up by 5 squilion fairy lights, visit scandanavia bigest Christmas market, visit four michelin restaurants in one evening, chill in a mud bath,
get your own personal soundtrack or go fishing with a Swedish fisherman.