Went through a town called Bro. I also saw a hairdresser called 'love is in the hair'. I love a hairdresser with a good pun name.
The view from Helena's apartment towards the globe arena.
Yesterday we went for a walk around the old town towards the royal palace. Pretty cool part of the world.
The palace (undergoing reno's)
Found a cheap lunch, $11 for a big pizza and salad. Everything else is so expensive here.
We went to the Alfred Nobel museum. Apart from having a whole bunch of awards named in his honour. He also invented dynamite, and smokeless gunpowder. Heres me in front of the worlds first geared bike which he also invented. Smart man.
That night we went up to the Globe Arena to catch an ice hockey semi-final. We were going to buy tickets online but ended up holding out until we got there. We then found out it was sold-out, but we managed to get some off a scalper that were 9 rows from the front for mega cheap. Awesome.
The local Stockholm team won 5-1, but the best bit was how crazy all the spectators were. Chanting and jumping around the whole match. The whole grand stand shook at times with all the jumping. The atmosphere was crazy!
They had heaps of flags. Ice hockey or gay pride march? You be the judge.
Celebrating the win, this meant they were in the grand final.
The next day we went down to the Vasa Museum on the water. The Vasa is an old old wooden ship. The Swedes built it to fight Poland in the 1600's, but they built it too big. It sailed in Stockholm Harbour for 1500 metres before tipping over and sinking. It sat at the bottom of the ocean for 333 years until it was found in the 60's. It was restored and now it has a big museum. And Darren Hanlon sings about it apparently.
Heres Katie and the Vasa -
The back of the ship -
Off to some club tonight as its our last night in sunny Stockholm. Back onto ryanair tomorrow to our london home.
Thanks goes out to Helena and Nina for letting stay at their houses in Stockholm. And also to Johanna for showing us the sights. Its been fun.
In the words of Chas Michael Michaels, "You're welcome Stockholm!"
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