Skulking wi da Swedes

Trip Start May 07, 2003
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Trip End Sep 05, 2005


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Sunday, August 21, 2005

So we sailed across the Baltic yesterday on a stunning day and floated up thru the beautiful archipelago to Stockholm. Only a few hours there stomping around checking out the sites of the gorgeous old town on the islands before we had to make a hasty departure to mate Gabriella's house (prominent member of the Auckland Elite Drinking Corps) about 100 k's to the west in Vasteros. With the usual luck of a pauper, we landed in Sweden during it's best weather all year and therefore time for outdoor parties drinking gold-leaf champagne and munching on dozens of crayfish. The Swedes sure know how to lay on a good nosh up!

Holy shit, we really are back in the west now hey! Credit card is going into meltdown but it's kinda nice to be making a return to the normality and pleasantness of Europe. We came from a place where dogs are lucky to have three legs; here they have their own drinking fountains! Before, we humans were forbidden to drink anything other than bottled water as it contained heavy metal, giardia and all kinds of nastiness; here you can drink straight out of the rivers in the capital city! In previous places, horses or mopeds out numbered cars by far, here Mercs and Saabs are the norm, and don't scare the shit out of us - they even believe in actually using the zebra crossings! So we're sitting in a real nice house watching MTV in English and it's all feeling a bit bizzare. It could be home, but no, it's definitely Swedish! The sophistication, efficiency and stlye of the place is unmistakable.
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