About my brother back from Sweden

My younger brother is back from his holiday trip in Sweden, which he took partly I think out of nostalgia (we visited Sweden as a family nearly twenty years ago), partly to see friends on the other sides of the Atlantic. He published this comment on his Facebook wall, which in itself is like a bunch of great unknown lines. I know I had promised to find other sources of great unknown lines than Facebook, but I could not ignore this one:

"10 Conclusions on boozecruising:
1- You can survive anything with alcohol.
2- Time is subjectiv, more so with alcohol.
3- Sleep is optional.
4- Good vodka is good. Who knew?
5- Estonians and Siberians make for the best latin dancers. Suck on that, latin girls.
6- Stockholm is a rich city.
7- Swedes are natural born hipsters.
8- Good coffee is rare in the north of Europe, but it can be found.
9- You will die if you try to outdrink a Finn.
10- You can survive anything with alcohol, except alcohol."

So here it is. Pure wisdom isn't it? I will write more about Sweden on this blog, so watch this space.

Stockholm in one picture

I would like to start this post with a bit of trivia: as I have mentioned before on this blog I work in a diversified cultural environment (it is one of the good things about my job), with colleagues from all around the world (sometimes even England).One of them is Swedish and she mentioned today to my colleagues and I that she was from Stockholm. Which reminded me that I have visited Sweden, nearly 20 years ago, and that I saw Stockholm.

Why my family and I visited Sweden of all places was due to one reason: a year before we had a Swedish student who came to live with us and we were going to visit her in her own country. She was from the North and I will blog about my trip there more, but this post is about Stockholm, where we spend the first and last few days of our trip. The picture you can see was taken by dad during this holiday. You can tell it is an old picture scanned, but it gives you an idea of the city and its character. Stockholm is one of the cities that can be labelled Venice of the North. I have seen more Venice looking places, but rarely have I seen more northern looking places, even in the middle of an unusually hot summer, like it was then. Stockholm is beautiful, Stockholm has character. My brother is going to visit it this summer. I envy him. I am sure it has changed a lot in twenty years, but I am sure it still is beautiful.