Most common reasons why people travel to Sweden use to be Swedish food and design. Now There is something else that’s kind of significant for the time: The film making of the famous Stieg Larssons Millennium-trilogy books has made the small country of Sweden ending up visible on the world map finally.

We had of course seen the Swedish film versions of the books earlier and now about a week ago even the Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo version of David Fincher, starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer and other famous actors.

Did we like it? Oh, yes! Several actors did a great performance. Of course it felt a bit strange that it was a Swedish film in Sweden but with mostly American actors, not exactly matching up, but it’s such a thrilling story so one got carried away with it anyway.

Naturally Rooney Mara was the most eye-catching being one of the main characters. It’s fascinating how different a person can look in different disguises. She was nominated for an Oscar for her role and she absolutely deserve it, her acting was really fantastic. The scenes when she were abused were very strong and when she took her revenge it was even more powerful - and perhaps even too brutal.

I think Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander did touch me most because of how she was abused - just like how many children and teenager grow up with abuse today unfortunately. I wish it were not so.

Daniel Craig was great as usual and so were the others - and Stellan Skarsgård really was creepy as Martin Vanger. As cut for the role!

63 000 000 Millennium books had been sold around the world in December 2011 and maybe the film will be as wide spread too, but from the beginning it doesn’t look like an equally big sales boom for unknown reasons.

I recently got to know that Stieg Larsson had the famous Swedish childbook character Pippi Longstocking as a source of inspiration for the character of Lisbeth Salander. A grownup and more modern version of Pippi obviously - not at all as human as she was created.

Head over to dragontattoo.net to see the trailer or read more.

©Lifecruiser Love Millennium Trilogy

Some other film reviews by Lifecruiser:

To Bond to Bond (Casino Royale)
More passion Marie Antoinette
 

Lifecruiser’s regular readers know that we have a special love for doors and windows. Can’t help finding old doors worn by the time, very charming. This one on an old charming fishing cottage at Fårö island, Sweden.

In this particular photo I also love that it’s an almost B/W photo, just with the blue details of the lock on the door. That’s what makes it interesting.

©Lifecruiser Love Old Fishing Cottage Doors
 

Earlier posts with door travel photos:

Travel Photo: Inviting Fishing Nets Door
Travel Photo: Creeping into door
Travel Photo: Old Cottage Entrance
Horseshoe Luck Door Photo
Holiday signs: Hat on door
Summer Farm Door Painting
Faro Door Number Two
Adoorable Deia & Valldemossa, Majorca, Spain
WWordless at door
 

I feel so sorry for the victims of the Spainair lockout, that I decided to write a short travel blog post about it. Vueling (and others) has a special flight rate deal for the Spanair stranded passengers that stands until January 30 2012, that might help some travelers.

The Spanish flight company Vueling even decided to start their flight route between Stockholm - Barcelona today - much earlier than planned (March) - because of the Spanair bankruptcy. Tickets can be bought through their mobile site too: m.vueling.com.

So if you are a Spanair.com lockout victim, you can hopefully get this special flight rate by Vueling at: http://www.vueling.com/spanair/ or read more in their blog post about the Spanair passengers options.

I can imagine what a chaos, since Spain is such a huge European tourist destination, when all those stranded passengers are going to try to get tickets with other flight companies like Iberia, Air Europa and Ryanair (49 Euro rescue fare) etc.

Having an owner of ownership in Spanair of 10,9 percent, the Scandinavian Airlines SAS reports that their loss will be possible to handle for them and that they will be involved as a creditor in the upcoming bankruptcy process. The event will have a limited effect on SAS liquidity.

Let’s face it: It could have been you or me. It’s never fun - to not get that well deserved getaway that you may have saved up for in months. What a nightmare.

To be stranded somewhere without a flight you’ve counted on if you really have to return at a specific date could cost you more than you can afford, both money wise and perhaps work wise. Your boss might not be pleased if you can’t get home in time.

Me? I would LOVE to be stranded in Spain right now… he he…

©Lifecruiser Love Spain