This week I began my interviews. Basically I am going to conduct between 25-30 interview at university libraries all over Sweden. First up were Borås on Wednesday, Linköping on Thursday & Jönköping on Friday. The interviews went very well and it was fun to visit the libraries (pictures on my Flickr account)
The problem with travel in Sweden is that the distances are most easily covered by train and buss but there are too many lakes to be able to travel in straight lines. I have been to places that I have never heard of. This means that:
- Wednesday – an easy stretch (total 2 hours)
- Buss: Göteborg – Borås
- Train: Borås – Göteborg
- Thursday – delays due to a derailed train (total 8 hours)
- Train: Göteborg – Katrineholm
- Buss: Katrineholm – Norrköping
- Train: Norrköping – Linköping
- Train: Linköping – Norrköping
- Buss: Norrköping – Katrineholm
- Train: Katrineholm – Hällsberg
- Train: Hällsberg – Göteborg
- Friday – too much travel, not a happy traveler (total 4 hours)
- Train: Göteborg – Falköping
- Train: Falköping – Jönköping
- Train: Jönköping – Göteborg
The final two hour stretch was sitting next to a young man who smellt really bad, drank beer and had bad teeth. Boy was I happy to get home. At an estimate I have traveled 1400 km in 14 hours over three days for 3,5 hours of interviews. That works out to seven kilometers per minute of interview… Science is an arduous task.
Some help for the geographically challenged