I went to Sweden in August 2002 to give a talk at a small conference on 'Mathematics and War'. It was held at at Blekinge Tekniska Hogskola, Karlskrona, Sweden. Travel notes: Ryan Air from London Stansted to Malmö was very cheap but ran three hours late, after a long period sitting on the runway at Stansted with fuel leaking out of the tanks.
		The graduate students meeting me at Malmö saw a great deal of this arrivals area (LEFT) and then had to drive me 200km in the middle of the night to Karlskrona. The conference started next day (RIGHT). You can read my talk about 'The Military Use of Alan Turing'.
The city of Karlskrona is on an archipelago in the Baltic. It now describes itself as 'Gateway to Poland.' But it was founded in the eighteenth century as Sweden's naval base.
		On the first evening the city council gave us a reception at the Naval Museum.
The essential point is that Sweden's former naval might...
... is now the subject of museums. Sweden has kept out of wars.
The weather was very sunny and warm and the Baltic was definitely ice-free. Is this a sad Death in Venice picture, showing the last golden summer of European peace before meltdown in the Middle East?