Hey Lovers!!
Last weekend my bestie and I decided to get away from the UK
and its bad weather and experience a new part of Europe, but I was
pretty pissed when we landed back in the UK to discover that it was and had
been warmer here the whole weekend than in our chosen destination. Gutted!
So where did we go? Stockholm, Sweden, where the people are
tall, gorgeous and life is like a never ending catwalk show!
So what was it like? Clean, stylish, calm and nowhere near
as expensive as people made out it would be. Before we left people kept telling
us to brace ourselves because it was going to be hella expensive, but in all
honesty, financially it just felt like a weekend in London (she says without
checking out her bank statement).
So what did we do? Landed on the Friday (into the cheaper
airport with the shortest runway I have ever landed on in my life) only for our
bus that was to transport us into the city to breakdown! Typical! Once the bus
got going again we finally made it into Stockholm late afternoon and met up
with my besties amiga who was our host for the weekend and went for something
to eat at Vapiano in GamlaStan and had a great girly chat!
Later that night we met up with my amiga who has been living
in Stockholm for 4 months now but it honestly felt like she had lived there her
whole life! We went out for some dessert and then to dance the night away at
the Hotspot Fasching until 5 in the morning!
It’s been a while and half since I’ve had a night like that but with a DJ that
drops a few Prince tunes into his set, how oh
how could I ever resist!
On the Saturday we slept way longer than we’d intended but
eventually found our way out and about exploring Stokholm City by day and by
night ended up in a random Thai bar compliment of Swedens Thai wives.
On the Sunday morning we visited Tenstakonsthall an Art gallery in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city
which my friend liked to refer to as the Ghetto, well if that was their Ghetto
it was the cleanest Ghetto I have seen in my life.
In the afternoon we took a
boat from the city centre that stopped at a bunch of little islands and hopped
off at the last stopped and walked around a town with some very beautiful
Scandinavian looking homes. By night we went to eat at a North African
Restaurant called Habibi’s which sadly was
closed so if you ever go you’ll have to tell me how it was. Instead we went to
a Turkish Restaurant across the street Aya Sofya
which was quite nice.
On Monday which was our last day we started out with a walk
in the woods and Tea and cake at a Castle tea house. Then we met up with my
friend for a lunch after visiting the InternationalLibrary which I have to say was such a nice place for a book worm like
moi to sit for a while. We ate lunch at an enchanting little café nearby that
had every kind of fresh tea imaginable but unfortunately we were cutting it
fine and had to rush off to get out flight home, but I we did manage to squeeze in an apple tea.
Overall Stockholm is a great place if you love fashion and
you love to socialise in cafes by day and restaurants and bars by night. But if
you’re the type of person who loves a city with a bit of edge or rebellion of
some sort then Stockholm probably isn’t for you. As much as their architecture was easy on the eye, it was also lacking in uniqueness, as for me there was nothing strikingly beautiful about the buildings there that intrigued me in the slightest I'm afraid. But that’s not to say it’s
not a great place to visit because I had a fab time, however had me or my
friend not known people that live there we definitely would have had a
completely different experience to the one we had. Either way we had a great time as we had great
company. Would I go again? Despite no being completely wowed... Yes I’ll probably go later this year to visit my
friend again as it is the perfect place to hang out and catch up due to it’s
calm and socialising culture.
Have you been to Stockholm? What did you think?
*Images are a combination of my own and sourced from Google
