Love It / Loathe It: Stockholm
9:42 pm
I'M DOWN WITH THAT: Things I Love About Stockholm:
* They show movies in English - so on a WET evening in Stockholm, we went to see 'The Simpsons - The Movie'. Which was much funnier than I was expected, and gave the world the amazing "Spiderpig" song
* The cool animals at Skansen - Margot loved the crazy bear that nearly attacked us, and I was really impressed by the Moose. And we saw reindeer too ... I guess they have to live somewhere when they're not with Santa!
* You can buy 'V' - fresh outta South Auckland, via some Swedish labelling!
* Balls, balls & more balls - of the food varieties of course! Loved the swedish meatballs I had, and the whole idea you can get balls of mashed potato with your hotdog is fantastic (although somewhat difficult to eat!)
* Chokladbollar (Chocolate balls) - these are amazing! Coconut chocolate balls, that you are meant to eat with coffee. Although we ate them with everything, and for almost every meal ... so so good!
WHAT'S WITH THAT: Things I Loathe About Stockholm:
* Swedish for Hello - is "Hey" ... so its perfectly natural for someone to say "Hey" and then you say "Hey" back, and then you are in all sorts of trouble because they think you speak Swedish. Which I of course don't!
* Plastic macs - are not a good look. Unfortunately, the became a necessary evil for our day spent around Skansen, and didn't Margot & I look like a couple of prize idiots (more than normal!)
THINGS I'VE LEARNT:
* Rihanna controls the weather - after single handedly ruining the UK summer (don't believe me? They proved it HERE) she turned her attention towards Stockholm, where that damn song was playing EVERYWHERE and down came the rain!
* There are over 70 Museums in Stockholm - I think we went to 3. And one of those was only to use the bathroom!
* Random foods do not make interesting foods - just because a food is shaped like a chocolate cone, or a lime green log, does not make it tasty.
* In northern Sweden, they use bark to make bread - yes, actual bark from trees. And its actually not that bad - tastes a bit like Riveta!
* They show movies in English - so on a WET evening in Stockholm, we went to see 'The Simpsons - The Movie'. Which was much funnier than I was expected, and gave the world the amazing "Spiderpig" song
* The cool animals at Skansen - Margot loved the crazy bear that nearly attacked us, and I was really impressed by the Moose. And we saw reindeer too ... I guess they have to live somewhere when they're not with Santa!
* You can buy 'V' - fresh outta South Auckland, via some Swedish labelling!
* Balls, balls & more balls - of the food varieties of course! Loved the swedish meatballs I had, and the whole idea you can get balls of mashed potato with your hotdog is fantastic (although somewhat difficult to eat!)
* Chokladbollar (Chocolate balls) - these are amazing! Coconut chocolate balls, that you are meant to eat with coffee. Although we ate them with everything, and for almost every meal ... so so good!
WHAT'S WITH THAT: Things I Loathe About Stockholm:
* Swedish for Hello - is "Hey" ... so its perfectly natural for someone to say "Hey" and then you say "Hey" back, and then you are in all sorts of trouble because they think you speak Swedish. Which I of course don't!
* Plastic macs - are not a good look. Unfortunately, the became a necessary evil for our day spent around Skansen, and didn't Margot & I look like a couple of prize idiots (more than normal!)
THINGS I'VE LEARNT:
* Rihanna controls the weather - after single handedly ruining the UK summer (don't believe me? They proved it HERE) she turned her attention towards Stockholm, where that damn song was playing EVERYWHERE and down came the rain!
* There are over 70 Museums in Stockholm - I think we went to 3. And one of those was only to use the bathroom!
* Random foods do not make interesting foods - just because a food is shaped like a chocolate cone, or a lime green log, does not make it tasty.
* In northern Sweden, they use bark to make bread - yes, actual bark from trees. And its actually not that bad - tastes a bit like Riveta!
