I'm in Nice right now, after arriving last night. Sorry for the slow week of updates; this blogging on the run is tough stuff! Annnywwayyyy,
Friday was pretty much just a travel day. I rose at 6:30 after a nice three-hour nap, ate breakfast, and took a bus to the train station. The journey from there to Nice consumed 12 hours, three buses, a plane, and a train... but only 60€.
That being said, I'm blog-hopping back to Stockholm. On Wednesday night, Totte's brother Johannes and a couple of his friends cooked dinner - something delicious involving salmon and goat cheese. Let this be my public compliment to the chefs; I hadn't had a nice home-cooked meal in weeks! After dinner and a box of wine, we ventured out into the city.
A nice coincedence: when I'd met up with Totte in the States last year, he was traveling with his friend David. I didn't know if we'd see David during my visit to Sweden, but we happened to bump into him randomly at a bar downtown. (The one other person I know in Stockholm...)
On Thursday we met Totte's sister, Linnea, at the quite-trendy cafe at the Moderna Museet. After eating and chatting for awhile, though, our energy had waned and we never actually went inside the museum. As a result, my memory of the Moderna will be the one piece of "art" that I saw - an ashtray on our table that looked exactly like a roll of toilet paper.
After two nights out we thought we'd take it easy and rent a movie. Thirty minutes of indecision in the video store gave us Apocalypto, the recent Mel Gibson offering set in the ancient Maya civilization.
Most American movies that come to Sweden are presented in English, with Swedish subtitles. Imagine our surprise when all of the characters started speaking Yucatec Maya language! The only subtitle options were Scandinavian languages, so I wouldn't have been able to understand the movie. (We found it pretty great that there was also a "no subtitles" version, which we thought should have been English. How many Yucatec Maya language speakers are there in Region 2?) The Björkstrand crew and I watched Fargo instead, which I'd never seen and was excellent.
I'm off for now, but stay tuned kids - we'll be back in a flash!
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