Stockholm

On 08/08/08 M and I celebrated five years as a couple by heading to Stockholm. Why Stockholm? No reason…


A few random thoughts on Stockholm:
- it's expensive
- it's smaller than I thought it would be
- everyone speaks English better than most English people
- people seem tolerant of mistakes, and polite
- it has lots of empty restaurants (see first point)
- none of the mugs have handles
- everyone is good looking
- there are no old people anywhere
- there are lots of young people pushing baby pushers, or with several toddlers in tow
- there are kitchen and furniture design shops everywhere, with extravagently priced and unusual kitchen implements for obscure kitchen-based tasks
- the dogs seem happy
- it's clean

Given the number of babies in abundance in Stockholm M and I agreed that the principal leisure time activity in this city is bedroom-based. Presumably this is a reflection of the length and gloominess of the northern Winter. I'm reliably informed by my friend C, who once attended school with me in Melbourne and now finds himself living there, that the Swedish government generously supports maternity and paternity leave, in addition to generous child care allowances … hence the baby boom finds a happy home here.

Here are a few random photos, taken with my new little digital wunderkind. As always, the film photos are still at the developers.

As you can see from the photo below, it's good to see the Viking cliche is alive and kicking: All these options look relatively similar, if you ask me... but the Bamse Big Viking would be the obvious choice here (just look at that combination of bread, dog, ketchup and mustard! - mmmm). Curious thing though; why can't they find a bun that accomodates the dog without a large part being breadless?


I liked it. I want to go again!

I've been incredibly slack keeping the blog up to date of late. Hopefully I can pull my boot-straps up, or whatever the saying is...