Friday was a wasted day. I felt sick and was not able to follow my article. Not a good sign for the weekend I was waiting for since more than 2 month.
Saturday we started to Stockholm. Because our train would be back just at midnight of Sunday, we went to the train station by bicycle at half past 7 in the morning and chained them on a fence. Arrived at Stockholm we brought our luggage to the ship we were going to sleep at night and went back to town to the Aquamarine-museum. It consists of several aquariums and was quite nice to explore. Afterwards we went back to town, because I needed some rest. Philipp took the opportunity to make in these two hours amazing pictures from above the town. Check his gallery later! In the early evening we went to Gamla Stan drinking a tea/coffee and eating a pizza. The pizzeria at the Nobel Museum is recommendable! The pizza is twice expensive as at the pizzeria in Sundsvall, but it tastes much better having the same (huge) size and you receive free bread with self made olive-pesto and cold water. We finished the evening with a walk through the town before I went to bed and Philipp made more night pictures of Stockholm. Because of my terrible headache I did not join him.
For the same reason I slept bad during the night and I regret I did not take the offered headache pill from Jana, a girl from Germany who came with her classmates to Stockholm to celebrate their degree. In the morning I begged for a pill and I received a whole package. Just in case, if they would return for a few days. Thanks girls! With the help of the pill the headache was gone, but my coordination felt like being drunk. Always a little bit two slow in reaction as usual (yes, slower is possible...) and not being really aware of my environment. We bought Kanelbullar at Hemköp (almost as good as Anna's) and went to the biological museum we had missed the day before. It is a collection of stuffed animals of Scandinavia and Greenland and its muck oxes and the walrus were very impressive. We visited the Technical Museum, too. Sad for this day, that I was not in the mood to read a lot. But in general it is a very good collection of all kind of machines and the build-in mine in the basement of the museum is very well implemented. In the end, after a very long time, we found the children section. And we had lot of fun with it. There we found out, that Philipp is one of a kind and I am at least one of five of a kind. And we played a lot with the mirrors. Funny stuff.
All in all, Stockholm was a nice trip. I am sorry for Philipp that I delayed us so much. All the time I begged for a place to rest. And I did not talk very much, always concentrated on myself. And if I talked, I felt like only complaining about headache, backache or whatever. In the end we just sit on the train station and waited. I felt so cold. At the train I slept two hours and felt better when we arrived. And I was able to cycle back to Nacksta. I love my bike with gear change.Now, what to say about Stockholm. It is huge, crowded and attracts in its way. But being in Stockholm I found out what I like at Sundsvall.
In Sundsvall everything is more personal. If you walk to town, you can be certain to meet at least one you know. I am so trained in this accident that I was all the time looking for exchange students in Stockholm. In Sundsvall, people are often interested were you come from and talk to you. Of course, that's impossible in Stockholm. There are Germans everywhere. You can recognize them almost at their clothes. Always... practical. A rain-coat, even in sunshine. And observing the environment with a specific kind of look. I guess, it is this critical look coming from the necessitation to optimize everything. They are not even about complaining about 200g instead of 100g ketchup on their sandwich. When Philipp and I met some Germans from this kind we tried not to to be recognized as German. And with so many Germans why should somebody be interested in where from Germany you come from or why you are in Sweden.Cars do not care for anybody. In Sundsvall they brake even if they are the only car in sight and if they are hundred meters away. In Stockholm, you have to be more careful. People are less relaxed at all. We heard in two days Stockholm more horns than in 9 month Sundsvall. But of course, Stockholm is not only that way.
Sitting in front of the cafe in the evening reminded me on cosy evenings in Aachen, when we sat in one of the tiny ginnels next to the ancient townhall. In Stockholm you can find those corners where you can relax, drink a coffee, take a breath, slow down and watching the few people who pass knowing that just 50 meters away from you a lively city waits to be explored.
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