Raising expectations too high means visitors come away with disappointment at the faint green-ish sky-snake, which is a shame, as it is pretty spectacular.
If you visit Iceland at the right time away from city lights, it is indeed better than what the pictures claim.
It’s spectacular and magnificent.
It's not that they are bright, they just change form so fast that you actually see it, and this is enough to realize how alien they are.
Granted, that was beyond the polar circle.
I definitely saw Auroras every but as spectacular as those pictures but it’s really rare (happened once or twice in my entire life). Selling Auroras to tourists is a really tricky concept to begin with.
Here is an example when Swedish Spotify was listed in the US on the Nasdaq stock exchange and they used the Schweiz flag instead haha. The list goes on :)
But as a Swede I can attest that people do mix up us and the Swiss for real.
I have no idea how that can be a thing. I can understand mixing up Slovakia and Slovenia - their flags are quite similar and endonym in Slovak for that country is Slovensko, Slovenská republika. IMO it's as weird as this Sweden-Switzerland
It's a real "problem" AND it's a joke. A joke website about a real "problem".
I know that it went wrong when a follow-up question to "Where are you from" is "Is it really very cold there?"
I wouldn’t have thought that someone who would know what languages were spoken in Switzerland would be the kind of person to confuse it with Sweden.
Spanish is neither mine nor her native tongue.
Also seems the Nordic governments have all hired the same PR/marketing firm :D Similar (good) content coming from most of them. This gives me Iceland Metaverse vibes in particular.
In Slavic languages its arguably somewhat close: - Russian: Швеция, Швейцария (translit: Shvetsiya, Shveytsariya). - Ukrainian: Швеція, Швейцарія (Shvetsiya, Shveytsariya) - Polish: Szwecja i Szwajcaria etc.
Romance languages, as well: - French: Suède, Suisse. - Italian: Svezia, Svizzera. - Spanish: Suecia, Suiza. - Catalan: Suècia, Suïssa. etc.
As an aside, Sweden’s business record is impressive - IKEA, Volvo, Spotify, H&M - is impressive. I loved my time there.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Swedish_compan...
Shvetsiya vs Shveytsariya
The Dutch had the colonies and naval power and Northern Renaissance.. but that's not exactly modern
Would be curious to hear what stereotypes they have of each other :))
called Sydney in Cape Breton Nova Scotia but also a town called Sidney with an i in British Columbia. More than once items or people meant for one end up nearly 5,000km in the wrong direction, or worse in Sydney Australia (worse as in it's not in Canada...we love ya Aussies!).
Then here is the Saint John New Brunswick (NB) vs St John's Newfoundland and Labrador vs Saint Johns Quebec issue. In NB it's always Saint not St but NFLD it's always St. in Quebec French doesn't use apostrophe like the English language does for possession.
Even my own town Charlottetown has at least three others in this small region but at least we are a capital and somewhat known being the "Cradle of Confederation" (of Canada). A bit like Philadelphia's fame in US history.
Salzburg Airport does not have a help desk for passengers who mistakenly fly to Austria instead of Australia
https://fullfact.org/online/special-desk-Salzburg-Airport-Au...
Update: *was
