| Hi peeps! I figured I would tell you about my trip to Stockholm now :) It won´t be a long story, I think (time will tell) but don´t worry, I won´t leave anythiing out! Thursday 18 October. I took my blackie car and drove down to Turku. Urgh I hate that road, it´s all forrest and plain. Urgh! Around 6pm I came to the harbour in Turku. I parked at the area that had surveillance. The parking fee was also ridicolously expensive: 22 €! Mad! I went to the terminal and got in line to check-in. It went rather quickly and then I went to the area where you get onboard the ferry. Since I was there earlier than usual, it wasn´t a lot of people there, which meant I even got to sit down! Oh the luxury! The ferry would leave at 8.15pm but about 30 minutes before, they called out that we would be delayed due to... well, I didn´t properly hear them because of the noise but I think he said technical problems. Eventually, though, we got to start walking onboard. The thing I find extremely annoying when it comes to this particular situation, is that everyone is rushing to the front, to be first. Why do that, it only causes irritation for the rest of us! Ah well... Once I had come on the ferry, I went to find my cabin. I relaxed for a while, opened my luggage to pick out stuff I needed and I watched some TV. Then, once the crew of the ship started talking about the programme for the evening via the speakers, I heard that Scandinavian Hunks would have a show later on in the bar area + they were also selling their very own sparkling wine in the Tax-free shop. The show they put on was great! Unfortunatly I didn´t see much, as the bar was beyond full with screaming women! I got my Irish Coffee and once the show started I found myself a good spot. Like I said, I didn´t see perfectly but it was good. If I didn´t see anything, I could look up at the ceiling, which were made of glass and therefor had some sort of mirror-effect. I tried to take some photos but they turned out like crap so there´s no point to upload them here. However, I did upload them on Facebook so go look for them there! ;-) Friday 19 October. At the same time as I booked the ferry tickets, I also booked a hotel breakfast at a hotel nearby the Silja terminal. The breakfast is great and since the shops in Stockholm don´t open until 1 0am and the ferry arrive in Stockholm at 6am, why go into town when all you can do is either sit at Centralen for several hours or walking around the city centre that´s practically dead. I´ve done that twice and it sucks! So, I always book the hotel breakfast. I stayed at the hotel til around 9.30am or so, when I decided it was time to go into town. Angeliqa would come to Stockholm around 12 and I would meet her at Centralen (the train station in Stockholm City, for those of you who don´t know). However, when I came down to the underground in Gärdet, from where I would go to the city centre, my luggage flew open all of the sudden! I don´t know why really. Luckily, nothing fell out but still, it was annoying. I closed it again and nothing more happened... Until I came into town and I walked from the underground station to the train station. I was walking over a pedestrian crossing and boom! - the bloody thing flies open again! This time, of course, some clothing items falls out and like that isn´t enough, a bus comes at the same time and absolutly wanted to run me over. So to say I was stressed, is a real understatement. So I hurried to get it collected and then I walked to Centralen and I didn´t move an inch before Angeliqa came. My mood was in the bottom but once I could concentrate on other things (e.g. I had a book with me, PS I Love You, which I read cover to cover) my mood got better. Finally Angeliqa joined me and we went to lock our luggage in. After that we walked around the city centre and we also took a longer walk into the Old Town (love that place) and passed the Royal Castle and passed through Kungsträdgården. After that long walk, we felt it was time to get coffee at our favourite spot, American Cookies. According to tradition, we took brownie w/ soft ice cream *yummy* After that, we went to find a shop that specializes on American candy & food. We spent a long time in there, hihi. I bought some items in the end, even if I didn´t mean to at first. ;) We then met up with Jojje and we walked around a bit more as we eventually decided to go see a movie, Ted. It was hilarious! After the movie, we went to pick our luggage up and then we took the underground to Jojje´s apartment. Saturday 20 October. We went back to Stockholm and went to a Chinese restaurant to eat buffet. It was indeed delicious. Later on, we went shopping and eventually I went back to Gärdet to the Silja terminal. Sunday 21 October. I was so tired waking up and it continued when I drove up home. I had to stop twice to rest, otherwise I might have fallen asleep by the wheel... The first time I stopped was to buy take-away coffee.  |
| This is one of the very few photos I took in Stockholm ;) A huge ghost where hanging on the main street Drottninggatan. It suits very well that I'm showing you this, with Halloween approaching and everything! |
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| Oh my...! ;-) I´m pretty sure he´s doing a MJ move here! |
