Why I want to go to Stockholm

November 29, 2007

The most popular spectator sports are football and ice hockey. The three most popular football teams in the Stockholm region are AIK, Hammarby IF and Djurgårdens IF. In ice hockey, Stockholm’s highest rated team is Djurgårdens IF, in football AIK& DjurgårdensIF&Hammarby And in handball the highest rated team is Hammarby.
Historically, the city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics. From those days stem the Stockholms Olympiastadion which has since hosted numerous sports events, notably football and athletics, and is the current home arena of Djurgårdens IF. For the ice hockey team, the home arena is Stockholm Globe Arena, one of the largest spherical building in the world, but it is also hosting concerts and other events.
Stockholm also hosted all but one of the Nordic Games, a winter multi-sport event that predated the Winter Olympics.
Apart from being a large city with an active cultural life, Stockholm, as Sweden’s capital, houses many national cultural institutions. There are two UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Stockholm area: the Royal Palace Drottningholm (within Ekerö Municipality) and the Skogskyrkogården(The Woodland Cemetery).
Stockholm was the 1998 European City of Culture.
Stockholm has an extensive public transport system. It consists of the Stockholm Metro (Tunnelbanan); three regional/suburban rail systems: commuter rail(pendeltåg), Roslagsbanan, and Saltsjöbanan; three light rail systems: Nockebybanan, Lidingöbanan, and Tvärbanan; and a large number of bus lines.

Why I want to go to Vancouver

November 29, 2007

Vancouver’s streetcar system began on 28 June 1890 and ran from the (first) Granville Street Bridge to Westminster Avenue (now Main Street). Less than a year later, the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company began operating Canada’s first interurban line between the two cities, which encouraged residential neighbourhoods outside the central core to develop.
Vancouver is served by School District 39 Vancouver, the second largest school district in British Columbia.As in other parts of the province, numerous independent schools are also eligible for partial provincial funding.
Vancouver has also greats schools and is one of the cultural and educationals point of the world.

Why I want to go to Melbourne

November 29, 2007

Melbourne is known as an Australian cultural and sport capital.
The choice was based on cultural attributes, climate, cost of living, and social conditions such as crime rates and health care, in 2002.
The city celebrates a wide variety of annual cultural events, performing arts and architecture. Melbourne is also considered to be Australia’s live music capital with a large proportion of successful Australian artists emerging from the Melbourne live music scene.
Melbourne is home to some of the nation’s oldest educational institutions, including the oldest Law (1857), Engineering (1860), Medical (1862), Dental(1897) and Music(1891) schools, all at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is also the oldest university in Victoria and the second oldest university in Australia.
Melbourne has an integrated public transportsystem known as Metlink, originally laid out late in the 19th century when trains and trams were the primary methods of travelling to the suburbs.

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