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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: Stockholm Apartment
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Thursday, August 28, 2014. Here's the most important room for friends and family. The little spare bedroom is ready for guests! Apparently many of the local hotels are similarly sized. The price is definitely much better for this room. :-) Yes, the full size bed did fit. We also brought our airbeds so those can be put down elsewhere in the apartment if needed. There's only one power plug in th...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: June 2015
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Saturday, June 27, 2015. First FS Post - 1 Year Later. I think I prefer getting an email over flag day. I'll get a private moment to digest the information instead of having it shared with everyone like some game show. "Come on down! Oh, have we! We've discovered you can do some really cool things in Europe over an extended weekend if you just go. This map was blank a year ago:. The official l...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: Stockholm Zombie Walk
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Once a year in Stockholm there are zombies. They go for a walk through the city. We're having a little nice weather for a few weeks so it was actually sunny and 73F. Summer appears to be unusually short this year with a bit more umbrellas and jackets needed compared to our first summer here. But I digress so here are the zombies. Location: Stockholm, Sweden. It's a W...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: July 2015
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Birka was a village on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren about 2 hours west of Stockholm by boat. Birka was an important trading center with the rest of the world during the Viking Age in the 8th-10th centuries. This UNESCO World Heritage Site was a day excursion with Strömma boat tours. On the way to Birka. Tour guide (above) took us through Viking Age burial mounds:.
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: HF Radio Training
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Sunday, April 6, 2014. High Frequency (HF) Radios. This was a fun week of training because it was an entirely new subject I knew very little about. We learned about operating HF radios. Including how the HF transmissions actually work. We'll mostly just use the radios but we also learned a little about installing them and maintaining the antennas if that's ever needed. The "danger of death" ca...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: Confirmation Letter
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. I saw the movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. And it made me a little more antsy for my first Foreign Service assignment. I'm ready to move overseas now! Walter Mitty progressed in the movie from daydreaming about adventures to living real adventures of his own. I'm ready to do the same! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sep 2016 - Sep 2018. Jun 2014 - Jun 2016.
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: April 2015
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Saturday, April 18, 2015. Location: Stockholm, Sweden. Tuesday, April 7, 2015. We saw the outside of Moulin Rouge just for grins. It was pricey to attend so we opted out of that tourist experience. Île de la Cité has Conciergerie. Prison, Louis IX's Sainte-Chapelle. One of our favorite experiences was exploring the Catacombs of Paris. We also saw the Panthéon. Before we left since it was just ...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: August 2015
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Sunday, August 30, 2015. Tough Viking is the leading, largest and most brutal Obstacle Race in Scandinavia and Russia. The obstacles are massive and consists of fire, water, electricity, deep mud, monkey bars and barbed wire set out along a challenging route. The obstacles are designed together with the Swedish elite maritime special forces unit Kustjägarna. The race started next to where it e...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: First FS Post - 5 Weeks Later
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Sunday, August 3, 2014. First FS Post - 5 Weeks Later. Blogging and many other things were sidelined by knee problems, so I'm finally writing an update about how we're settling in at our first post and Foreign Service assignment after 5 weeks. Unaccompanied Air Baggage (UAB). I was most grateful for my pillow and additional towels. We took the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It took almost 4...
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist: May 2015
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Ramble On - Foreign Service Specialist. An Information Management Specialist (IMS) rambling on around the world. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. This weekend. It's a short term car rental company spreading around the world. It arrived in Stockholm earlier this year. I used to see Zipcar back in northern Virginia but we never needed it while living there so this was my first use of this kind of service. They're all little 2-seat Smart cars perfect for running around the city. Location: Stockholm, Sweden. We went t...
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