Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

About 2 million years ago, Grenada was formed as an underwater volcano. You can tell this by Kick-’em-Jenny which is still an active submarine volcano north from Grenada's main island. This volcano rises some 1300 m above the sea floor and is just some 180 m below the sea surface. The crater contains fumaroles which emit bubbles of gas, so the boats go around it when they want to go to the northern island of Grenada called Carriacou. Despite these cool facts I had also heard that 30% of the natives were living below the poverty line. Grenada, like many of the Caribbean islands is subject to a large amount of migration, with a large number of young people wanting to leave the island to seek life elsewhere. This means that probably only around a third of those born in Grenada still live there. When my friend Christofer and I arrived at the capital St. George´s with a cruise ship, I was both excited and scared. We had decided we would go to The Molinere Underwater Sculpture Par...

Iceland was a special place for me long before I even went there, because of the magical music that spawned from the small island. The most famous artist is Björk but the band that really got me into Iceland was Sigur Rós who I still think is the best band ever. They play their own unique version of post-rock and the music sounded like the landscape of Iceland while the singer Jónsi sang in both Icelandic and vonlenska, which is a language of made up words that sounds right to the music. I got so blown away by them that I quit my plans for being a journalist and instead I went to the university to learn Icelandic, so I could move there. It was a hard language to learn and although I finished my courses I felt like I hadn't learned a thing after I graduated. Then I landed a dream job at a culture house in my hometown Helsingborg and the plans for going to Iceland went away.  Then it was in the back of my mind for ten years before I finally decided to fulfill the dream of going th...