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Stockholm, Sweden!

okay I know what you are thinking... "these girls are travelling soooo much!" WH said we are xiao and.. I have to admit I think we are. See we were so lured by cheap budget airfares that we just booked so many weekend trips that now we are on an overdose. Too ambitious of us lah, but July we are taking it easy- just one weekend trip out of UK. SS said that when she went over to the US with her hubby, they did the same thing.. (I guess such initial reaction is normal?) After a few months, they just were too tired and just wanted to go around their neighbourhood instead. haha hmm yes so July will be the month we explore more of London.


That said, we spent last weekend in Stockholm, Sweden. A chilled-out NO RUSH kind of weekend coz all of us were on an overdose. We went with JL, Shany, Christine & another colleague Kathy. We set off from Stansted airport for the 3rd time now, quite pro at getting there from our place aldy :)

Sweden, land of blonde babes and hunks, ooh here we come!~ (at least that's what everyone else tells us.)
Yellow and blue, their national colours even on their post boxes


Even the clouds are so nice

Day 1
Our hostel is in the city centre, good location and great that there were 6 of us, so we could have one whole 6 bedder to ourselves. By the time we set off from hostel, it was 5plus and we spotted H&Ms (yes a few of them in one stretch!), the original "home-ground" as one mag called it. Too bad, it was just 30min more before they close and we made a last min dash =p well didn't get anything in the end coz we realised it's not v much cheaper than London. Anyway Christine & Kathy are good man.. Kathy spent more than 100GBP in that 30min! *applause to that*
River view of Stockholm with the beautiful historic buildings

In the royal palace squre


Outside the palace

Behind the palace
Love the effect of this night pic



As this was Sweden, we all wanted to try the renowned swedish meatballs and we went to a few restaurants, finally settled for this nice looking place... well... must say it wasn't cheap (being Scandinavia) and the sad thing was that it wasn't nice!! haizz Ikea's meatballs are way better I must say. boohoo so sad. Kathy was brave enough to try some reindeer meat for dinner.. and oh well, she said it tasted "weird". We were all unsatisfied & decided we had to adjourn somewhere else to have nice desserts, which we did hehe Being summer, sky was still bright at 10pm, something which I really like.

Swedish meatballs

Day 2

City Hall

City Hall


Christine trying to scare a poor duck

Rise and shine! We all had our muffins for breakfast while walking to their City Hall, led by Kathy. She is really gooood with directions and maps, this girl. Never get lost with her around *thumbs up*  We nick named her "Tom Tom".  It was great weather, not as hot as Salzburg with the occasional breeze. We took a 3h cruise out to the Swedish Archipelago, great views with all the reflections & all in the water. Had lunch, yes we had to try some nice meatballs, so tried our luck again at this cafe by the river and this one was much better, thankfully. (altho some nagging thought in my mind still thinks Ikea one is nicer.. dunno why haha) It was a sunny and slow paced afternoon.. not sure if we covered the important sights within that short span of time, or were we too tired from exploring new places.. had abt 2h so we just sat by the river and chilled. Quite nice, really.

Tired legs

Girls

Looks like a water colour painting

Pretty, pretty reflections
Pensive Kathy

Nice buildings

This small island archipelago  has some famous occupants - ABBA


Ducks chillaxing

Us too!

Dramatic cloud

Flight touched down Stansted at 1020pm, bus to Stratford was at 10:55pm and guess what.. engineering works on Jubilee line (again!!) so no train service to our place. Too late for tube services so we had to share a cab back.  Another weekend trip away, back to work tomorrow!

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