Stockholm

Home of the Swedish king. A really impressive city. The mediterranean style houses at the promenades near the sea almost give you the feeling being in Italy. But the cold wind and all people wearing caps and scarfs quickly bring back to your mind that you are about 2000km further in the north.
Our Stockholm trip should begin at 14:00 last Friday and surprisingly for all of us we actually managed to be on the highway around 14:30. The fact that Basti is an exchange student in Stockholm at the moment made it a lot easier for us to find a cheap accommodation. We stayed at his place in Tyresö for free ;) But of course we weren’t cheap and spent the saved money in our new favorite shop. The system bolaget. Driving from Göteborg to Stockholm took us about 5,5 hours and gave us the opportunity to enjoy Swedens beautiful landscape. The mix of coniferous and deciduous trees all colored in autumn colors is something you hardly find in Germany. This combined with the sunny weather made the time worth spending in the car.
The first night in Stockholm we spent at Bastis dorm talking with a lot other Erasmus students and finishing the box of beer we brought from system bolaget and the boxes they brought from their ferry trip to Estonia. As usual Sebbo went to bed first. Fault again…


Saturday we started our tour to downtown Stockholm around 10. We had a walk around in the city and watched all the mandatory sights like the royal palace, Gamla stan (the first old town I have seen so far worth comparing to the one in Regensburg. Different but as nice as the one in Regensburg. Well nearly as nice ;) ), the nobel museum, T-centralen and many more. Since pictures say more than 1000 words you can get a better impression at Sebbos flicker page.
After dinner at Bastis place we all went to the city again to enjoy Stockholms nightlife and visited some special places during night. Seeing the whole city from Katarinahissen and Södermalmwas really great. We also been to some bars. But none of them was a place which going to again is a must. They all been ok, but nothing special except the last one. A freaky mix of heavy metal and punk style people populated that place. I wonder how we ended up there and I am sure Jonny, Sebbo and me fit in this place like Will smith at the anual KKK meeting.

On Sunday we had another walk in the city and been to the Vasa museum. A really cool place.


The ship is called Vasa and sunk in the 1620s on its first trip. When it was 600 meters away from the harbor the wind became too strong, the ship started to roll too much, water entered through the canon holes and we all know the rest of the story… Swedish engineering for the win ;). If you ever go to Stockholm make sure to go there. Its definitely worth it!