Kevin works in an area of Stockholm called Liljeholmen, and while we are looking for a permanent place to live, we are staying with Melissa's aunt and uncle in Järfälla, a suburb of Stockholm. We have no car, so every day, Kevin must make the commute from Järfälla to Liljeholmen by public transit. Public transit in Sweden is very efficient and widespread, so it is fairly easy to get from anywhere to anywhere else without too much of a hassle. Even so, it takes Kevin about an hour each way to and from work.
Each morning, he gets on a bus near the house we are staying at, which takes him to the nearby commuter rail station. From there, he takes a train to Stockholm's central train station, where he transfers to the subway to get him the rest of the way to work.
This is a map of the area, and the approximate path the train and subway takes (Google maps doesn't display transit directions for Stockholm, so this is a car path):
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However, that is what Kevin does on a normal day. But yesterday, a huge amount of snow fell and blanketed the region, completely overwhelming Stockholm's mass transit system. All the buses were cancelled, so Kevin was planning to walk to the train station, but a good samaritan drove by and offered Kevin a car ride to the station, which he gladly accepted. The trains were also delayed, so by the time he got to work, nearly two hours had passed.
Here's is a medley of scenes from his commute to work yesterday morning:
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