Stockholm, Sweden
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Maggie, Vivian and I went to Stockholm, Sweden for four days. Our journey started on Thursday, October 20 th at 7am. One tram, one train, navigating the Paris metro, one bus shuttle, a two hour delayed flight, one more bus shuttle, and then the Tunnelbahn (subway) in Stockholm later we arrived at our boat hostel in Stockholm. It was an all day affair to get there, and we learned why we got our plane tickets via RyanAir so cheap.
The flight was entertaining because it was so different from any other flight I have taken. It was two hours delayed, and their slogan on a sign in the Paris Beauvais airport is, "RyanAir. The on-time airline." We didn't have a seat number, it was "free seating" so we stood in line and then ran out onto the runway to get a good seat. During the flight they sell snacks (Viv bought a small can of Pringles for 2 Euros to ease some of the hunger pain), and lotto tickets to win a mini-cooper. When we landed in Sweden, the plane was going pretty fast and we weren't sure what was going to happen.
When we finally walked into our boat hostel, it was around 22h30 and we were hungry! We found our cabin with a bunk bed and pull out couch, unloaded our stuff and walked to Soddermalm in search of food. The Thai restaurant that was supposed to be open until 1am closed at 11pm, so we kept walking. We found "Mest" at 11:50pm, and the doorman asked the cooks if they would stay open to make something for us. They agreed, and shortly after we were eating delicious Swedish food. I had some seafood pasta and an apple juice (apfelsoft is the name I think).
Friday we awoke to clouds but no rain. We ate breakfast at the hostel, and then walked to Gamla Stan, the old city. The buildings there were fabulous. The color scheme was almost always yellow, pink, red, and orange. We saw the changing of the guard in front of the palace, and stopped inside many of the shops. Maggie was in search of a gold necklace for her sister, who had visited Stockholm the summer before. We found the store, and the necklace and I got to witness how someone examines a piece of gold jewelry before buying it. I'm not much for jewelry (except for the necklace I've been wearing the last two years from Andy) so I was happy to learn how one goes about buying it. It is something I wouldn't have learned on my own. We went to another Island of Stockholm and saw the Moderna Muskeet, the modern art museum. It was huge! I saw a photo exhibition of Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, and Christer Strömholm. It was put together very well. Dinner was at a Swedish Pizza place. We didn't want to pay €1.50 to check our coats (which is required at most restaurants) so we found a pizzeria that was mainly for take away but had a nice little place inside to sit and eat.
€6 later we were super full and ready to go back to our hostel to drop off our packages from the day. We walked to Soddermalm, while Vivian and I played a counting game. I counted the number of people that wore tight jeans with boots, and Vivian counted the number of blond haired girls. After 15 min, she was around 40, I was around 30. We found MONDO a Swedish nightclub. The band that played was so-so, they sang in English, which made it easy to understand, but the first song that we heard was about LSD and not very well written.
Saturday we woke up and the first thing I heard was Maggie saying, "Wayne's!" I thought she said, "Rains!" because that was what it was doing outside, but no, she was referring to Wayne's coffee shop that we passed the day before. We got ready with our rain coats and headed over for what Maggie says was the best cup of coffee she's had since she's been studying abroad. I went back to the hostel to meet up with some Swedish unicyclists to tour the city via one wheel. Hakko, Felix, Hycken, Andreas and I rode to Gamla Stan, witnessed the changing of the guard, which Andreas explained to us because he had been a guard for his military service a few years before. He had never actually entered the Palace even though he spent one summer outside marching around it. We seized the opportunity to change that, entered the palace and Andreas took out his juggling balls and started juggling. We rode to the center of Stockholm (really industrial and 70ish), to the town hall where we did some artistic riding, and finally to a juggling practice to avoid some of the rain. Hycken took some photos of our ride and posted them on his site
Many many thanks to Hakko for organizing the ride, Peter from unicycle.se for letting me borrow a trials uni, and the other Swedish unicyclists for showing up despite the rainy weather.
The evening we spent walking around and eating Indian food. Sunday morning we woke up early to start our voyage back to France. It rained every day we were there so it was nice that the weather in Paris was wonderful. I actually took out my sunglasses while we walked around. We ate lunch/dinner, saw the Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge, and then headed to the Montparnass train station to go back to Nantes.
A funny quote worth mentioning:
« Il y a un bistro chaque 10 mètres à Paris! » (There is a bistro every 10 meters in Paris!)
--Parisian Police officer, responding to our inquiry if he knew where the Starbucks next to the Montparnass Train station was. He didn’t know what Starbucks was, so we explained it was an American bistro where one can purchase coffee. No one in Paris knows Starbucks. Very different from the US.
Maggie, Vivian and I went to Stockholm, Sweden for four days. Our journey started on Thursday, October 20 th at 7am. One tram, one train, navigating the Paris metro, one bus shuttle, a two hour delayed flight, one more bus shuttle, and then the Tunnelbahn (subway) in Stockholm later we arrived at our boat hostel in Stockholm. It was an all day affair to get there, and we learned why we got our plane tickets via RyanAir so cheap.
The flight was entertaining because it was so different from any other flight I have taken. It was two hours delayed, and their slogan on a sign in the Paris Beauvais airport is, "RyanAir. The on-time airline." We didn't have a seat number, it was "free seating" so we stood in line and then ran out onto the runway to get a good seat. During the flight they sell snacks (Viv bought a small can of Pringles for 2 Euros to ease some of the hunger pain), and lotto tickets to win a mini-cooper. When we landed in Sweden, the plane was going pretty fast and we weren't sure what was going to happen.
When we finally walked into our boat hostel, it was around 22h30 and we were hungry! We found our cabin with a bunk bed and pull out couch, unloaded our stuff and walked to Soddermalm in search of food. The Thai restaurant that was supposed to be open until 1am closed at 11pm, so we kept walking. We found "Mest" at 11:50pm, and the doorman asked the cooks if they would stay open to make something for us. They agreed, and shortly after we were eating delicious Swedish food. I had some seafood pasta and an apple juice (apfelsoft is the name I think).
Friday we awoke to clouds but no rain. We ate breakfast at the hostel, and then walked to Gamla Stan, the old city. The buildings there were fabulous. The color scheme was almost always yellow, pink, red, and orange. We saw the changing of the guard in front of the palace, and stopped inside many of the shops. Maggie was in search of a gold necklace for her sister, who had visited Stockholm the summer before. We found the store, and the necklace and I got to witness how someone examines a piece of gold jewelry before buying it. I'm not much for jewelry (except for the necklace I've been wearing the last two years from Andy) so I was happy to learn how one goes about buying it. It is something I wouldn't have learned on my own. We went to another Island of Stockholm and saw the Moderna Muskeet, the modern art museum. It was huge! I saw a photo exhibition of Diane Arbus, Lisette Model, and Christer Strömholm. It was put together very well. Dinner was at a Swedish Pizza place. We didn't want to pay €1.50 to check our coats (which is required at most restaurants) so we found a pizzeria that was mainly for take away but had a nice little place inside to sit and eat.
€6 later we were super full and ready to go back to our hostel to drop off our packages from the day. We walked to Soddermalm, while Vivian and I played a counting game. I counted the number of people that wore tight jeans with boots, and Vivian counted the number of blond haired girls. After 15 min, she was around 40, I was around 30. We found MONDO a Swedish nightclub. The band that played was so-so, they sang in English, which made it easy to understand, but the first song that we heard was about LSD and not very well written.
Saturday we woke up and the first thing I heard was Maggie saying, "Wayne's!" I thought she said, "Rains!" because that was what it was doing outside, but no, she was referring to Wayne's coffee shop that we passed the day before. We got ready with our rain coats and headed over for what Maggie says was the best cup of coffee she's had since she's been studying abroad. I went back to the hostel to meet up with some Swedish unicyclists to tour the city via one wheel. Hakko, Felix, Hycken, Andreas and I rode to Gamla Stan, witnessed the changing of the guard, which Andreas explained to us because he had been a guard for his military service a few years before. He had never actually entered the Palace even though he spent one summer outside marching around it. We seized the opportunity to change that, entered the palace and Andreas took out his juggling balls and started juggling. We rode to the center of Stockholm (really industrial and 70ish), to the town hall where we did some artistic riding, and finally to a juggling practice to avoid some of the rain. Hycken took some photos of our ride and posted them on his site
Many many thanks to Hakko for organizing the ride, Peter from unicycle.se for letting me borrow a trials uni, and the other Swedish unicyclists for showing up despite the rainy weather.
The evening we spent walking around and eating Indian food. Sunday morning we woke up early to start our voyage back to France. It rained every day we were there so it was nice that the weather in Paris was wonderful. I actually took out my sunglasses while we walked around. We ate lunch/dinner, saw the Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge, and then headed to the Montparnass train station to go back to Nantes.
A funny quote worth mentioning:
« Il y a un bistro chaque 10 mètres à Paris! » (There is a bistro every 10 meters in Paris!)
--Parisian Police officer, responding to our inquiry if he knew where the Starbucks next to the Montparnass Train station was. He didn’t know what Starbucks was, so we explained it was an American bistro where one can purchase coffee. No one in Paris knows Starbucks. Very different from the US.
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