So, in the spirit of listing things I've lost on this trip... I lost the key to my luggage locker today. That sucked. Fortunately, whoever picked it up was kind enough not to steal all my belongings from the locker, which they could easily have done. All it cost me was 20 minutes of panic and 200 Kroner (about 30 bucks) to get my stuff back. Not that I'm happy about the 30 bucks, but at least I still have my pack, and I know what pocket *not* to put the locker key in next time.
I'm sitting in Stockholm's main station waiting for my 11:00 train to Hamburg. The great thing about night trains is that you get to spend the whole time sleeping comfortably. The crappy thing about night trains is that there's really nowhere to go between 7:00 pm and whenever the train leaves, unless you want to spend all your money sitting in a bar. And that gets really expensive in Scandinavia.
I spent all day today trying to go to museums that weren't open. Almost all of the museums here close on Mondays, so I got a lot of walking in, but that was about it. I'm tired and bored and wish I could just fast-forward through the next couple of hours. *sigh* And I have to go because I'm about to run out of internet minutes. Tah tah for now.
P.S. I was lucky enough to find a coupon for free minutes lying around (again... this is like the 3rd time it's happened), and I just remembered something else you should all find amusing: I'd heard from a reliable source that you can buy caviar in a toothpaste-style aluminum tube here. I've confirmed this report, and not only is it true that you can purchase it, it's true that you can purchase it at 7-11!
Yes, 7-11. They're a lot nicer here. They actually are closer to a tiny supermarket than what we would normally think of as a convenience store. For example, in addition to the single-serving yogurts and string cheese we find at home, here you can purchase a whole quart of yogurt or a block of cheese. They have pasta and semi-decent-looking food under heat lamps. And the coffee is dispensed by the cashier, from behind the counter. For those of you who have a deep-seated fear of the 7-11 coffee in Hollywood, you can see how this conveniently prevents the local homeless population from contaminating the coffee... except I'm in Sweden, where they have socialism, and so there is no homeless population. Don't get me started on that bit...
I'm sitting in Stockholm's main station waiting for my 11:00 train to Hamburg. The great thing about night trains is that you get to spend the whole time sleeping comfortably. The crappy thing about night trains is that there's really nowhere to go between 7:00 pm and whenever the train leaves, unless you want to spend all your money sitting in a bar. And that gets really expensive in Scandinavia.
I spent all day today trying to go to museums that weren't open. Almost all of the museums here close on Mondays, so I got a lot of walking in, but that was about it. I'm tired and bored and wish I could just fast-forward through the next couple of hours. *sigh* And I have to go because I'm about to run out of internet minutes. Tah tah for now.
P.S. I was lucky enough to find a coupon for free minutes lying around (again... this is like the 3rd time it's happened), and I just remembered something else you should all find amusing: I'd heard from a reliable source that you can buy caviar in a toothpaste-style aluminum tube here. I've confirmed this report, and not only is it true that you can purchase it, it's true that you can purchase it at 7-11!
Yes, 7-11. They're a lot nicer here. They actually are closer to a tiny supermarket than what we would normally think of as a convenience store. For example, in addition to the single-serving yogurts and string cheese we find at home, here you can purchase a whole quart of yogurt or a block of cheese. They have pasta and semi-decent-looking food under heat lamps. And the coffee is dispensed by the cashier, from behind the counter. For those of you who have a deep-seated fear of the 7-11 coffee in Hollywood, you can see how this conveniently prevents the local homeless population from contaminating the coffee... except I'm in Sweden, where they have socialism, and so there is no homeless population. Don't get me started on that bit...
posted by Kristal at 11:41 AM
2 Comments:
what do the homeless people do to the coffee??
aah...Sweden. I once met a gilr from Sweden in NYC...Her name was Ase...with an accent...She was cool...It's the country that where no citizen has a credit card debt.
I like Sweden.
By the way, its Nora...I am anonymous.
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