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Stockholm's Gamla Stan district was lined with cobbled streets, each laden with its own history and style- the road of boxed ears haunted by brawling poets, the narrow corridor/portal painted orange, the subversives and black-robed monks, the rune stone and cannon protecting street corners, liquor wars traipsing onwards from the gargoyled main square.

Pippi Longstocking (Långstrump) grinned at me from every shop window, but I never did conclude why giant inflated orange plaits stuck out from the top of a high-rise building, as if Pippi was trapped inside.

In the park outside the palace, needles were strewn around ornate fountains, bags of meths were hanging from bushes and it seemed somehow fitting, that it would be only then that it could be seen by those that were there, outside, as a real palace.

Some of the youth hostels in Stockholm are shaped from boats and former prisons, but the one I stayed in mainly seemed to contain schoolgirls who would excitedly run down the corridors during the evenings. I sipped pear cider in the bar, which I was quite wrong in expecting it to taste like the strong British kind of perry. Cactus/lime xider also seemed to not resemble normal cider, and I suspect neither did the other flavours - mandarin/chilli, pine/citrus, wasabi/lemon.

Wasabi Cider?!

Date: 2005-09-05 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erinaf.livejournal.com
Eew! That's a cool new icon. And i was pysched i found Strongbow out in California of all places on our honeymoon!

Re: Wasabi Cider?!

Date: 2005-09-05 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
I think the stone face probably has that expression after drinking some wasabi cider. The queue was too long in the Systembolaget, so I didn't get to try it. Probably just as well.

I noticed that you were writing about cider too. Glad you found some on your honeymoon. :)

Date: 2005-09-05 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] fluffymark
You know, I've got to writeup my visit to Sweden SOON. Reading your descriptions is already bringin back fond memories of the place. :) :) :)

Date: 2005-09-05 09:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
Yes, you must indeed write about Sweden. :)

Date: 2005-09-05 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_evening_rain_/
Interesting flavors! Where did you find it? Don't know when I'll get around to going to Stockholm, though.
My sister used to live near a place that served blueberry cider and I'm determined to taste that someday.

Date: 2005-09-05 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
The Xider seemed to be sold in quite a lot of bars and the full range was available in the Systembolaget (state owned off-licences). It seemed more like an alcopop than cider though really! Blueberry cider definitely sounds good - there also seems to be cloudberry cider (http://www.gellivarecider.se/eng/produkter.asp).

Date: 2005-09-05 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] billyabbott.livejournal.com
The Harcourt Arms (http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Harcourt_Arms,_W1H_4HX), near Marylebone/Edgware Road in London and opposite the swedish church, normally has a range of swedish ciders and from my dim memories when I used to work next door they weren't bad at all.

I visited Stockholm once for almost a day, and got a whole hour of non-working time while meandering back to the station to get a train to the airport. I saw a bunch of death metal record stores and lots of nice light stone buildings, but I was in a bit of a hurry. The country remains on my list of places to visit.

Date: 2005-09-06 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
Cider or Xider? ;)

Date: 2005-09-06 02:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] criesbella.livejournal.com
i read this as >>the subversive and black-robed monks<<
and thought, YEAH!

those are my kind of monks :)

ok, i see i read too fast now ;)

xo, a

Date: 2005-09-06 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
Maybe all monks are subversive?

Date: 2005-09-06 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] psychosynthesis.livejournal.com
Some of the youth hostels in Stockholm are shaped from boats and former prisons

first they make you stay, then you pay to stay. talk about Stockholm Syndrome.

Date: 2005-09-07 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
It's harsh, I tell you.

Date: 2005-09-08 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solitarywalker.livejournal.com
My hostel in Ottawa was a former prison. Loved the place, really. Even more than the Civil War bunker in California.

& i'm just really jealous of how much you get to travel...

Date: 2005-09-08 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] squirmelia.livejournal.com
Did it have clocks telling the time in Alcatraz, that kind of thing?
Civil War bunker sounds cool!

I don't travel that much really. I would love to travel to where you are.

Date: 2005-09-08 11:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] solitarywalker.livejournal.com
Well, the clocks told the time in Alcatraz, yeah, since it was in San Francisco, with a view of the bay that Alcatraz is in. :)

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