This blog is also entitled, My Escape To Stockholm. But I really am going to be "On A Boat" in this blog... as in showing photos of me on a boat, not writing it on a boat, so I felt it to be fitting and kind of cool because it is referencing popular culture and stuff.
To escape the mundaneness which was to be Uppsala for the next few days due to all the students having left for their vacation, I decided that I should go out "on a whim?" and head for Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, where there would SURELY be more people because I felt like I was going insane. Quiet towns apparently do not suit me. Maybe I should learn.... hmmm. Well, either way, even if Stockholm was, for some reason quiet, it is meant to be Europe's most beautiful city so I figured it'd be a good place to get some photos.
I booked myself in at a hostel called Citybackpackers, which has gotten some pretty fair ratings and they were also running a lot of events, of which I signed up for everything that I could, eager to just DO SOMETHING! Included in these events was "The Meatball Experience" - where you learn how to make meatballs the Swedish way and "The Viking Sauna Tour" - where you go on a raft to an island sauna where you get heated up to like 100 degrees and then jump into the ice water. Totally something that I would normally want to do. Not.
The first day in Stockholm was really quite cold and I found that I was really quite out of my depth, being a rubbish map reader, and having no idea of the language and being really kinda cold, I was struggling to get myself around. I was hopelessly lost and the map made no sense to me. In the end, I managed to make my way to one of those tour bus things and hopped on that and then subsequently joined the boat tour afterwards. It gave me a pretty good view of the city... and I totally DID NOT fall asleep on the bus.... the guy talking in the headphones... just had such a soothing voice.
Bus photos never look that crash hot so I don't really wanna post them but here's a bit of a taster...
The boat tour was pretty cool. It was like I said, freezing, so everyone stayed inside the cabin, but I wanted to be outside to take photos so I grabbed a blanket and went to begin my hour and a half of torture.
After the tour, I wandered around, it was dark by then (4pm) and went and found a mexican joint where I had some tacos! TACO TACO TACO
Also found out that SPAM-A-LOT - a musical we saw in Melbourne like 4 years ago or something was on in Sweden! It's following me!
Nevertheless, it was a pretty good first day of exploration. The hostel even had people in it! I haven't uploaded my photos from yesterday quite yet and today I was meant to go on the Sauna Tour but unfortunately woke up to find it had been cancelled! Lame. I did the meatball experience last night though which was pretty cool. Oh and it has finally snowed a bit here so I'll post some photos of that as well later.
OK, I'll post the one I popped on Facebook for you guys...
I'm heading back to Uppsala tonight so here's to hoping that all the students are back!
I booked myself in at a hostel called Citybackpackers, which has gotten some pretty fair ratings and they were also running a lot of events, of which I signed up for everything that I could, eager to just DO SOMETHING! Included in these events was "The Meatball Experience" - where you learn how to make meatballs the Swedish way and "The Viking Sauna Tour" - where you go on a raft to an island sauna where you get heated up to like 100 degrees and then jump into the ice water. Totally something that I would normally want to do. Not.
The first day in Stockholm was really quite cold and I found that I was really quite out of my depth, being a rubbish map reader, and having no idea of the language and being really kinda cold, I was struggling to get myself around. I was hopelessly lost and the map made no sense to me. In the end, I managed to make my way to one of those tour bus things and hopped on that and then subsequently joined the boat tour afterwards. It gave me a pretty good view of the city... and I totally DID NOT fall asleep on the bus.... the guy talking in the headphones... just had such a soothing voice.
Bus photos never look that crash hot so I don't really wanna post them but here's a bit of a taster...
The boat tour was pretty cool. It was like I said, freezing, so everyone stayed inside the cabin, but I wanted to be outside to take photos so I grabbed a blanket and went to begin my hour and a half of torture.
A few people came out to get a few photos. How funny do the blankets look!
Also found out that SPAM-A-LOT - a musical we saw in Melbourne like 4 years ago or something was on in Sweden! It's following me!
Nevertheless, it was a pretty good first day of exploration. The hostel even had people in it! I haven't uploaded my photos from yesterday quite yet and today I was meant to go on the Sauna Tour but unfortunately woke up to find it had been cancelled! Lame. I did the meatball experience last night though which was pretty cool. Oh and it has finally snowed a bit here so I'll post some photos of that as well later.
OK, I'll post the one I popped on Facebook for you guys...
I'm heading back to Uppsala tonight so here's to hoping that all the students are back!
