Sweden Cont'd...
Day 2, Thursday am Woke up early, even though I was wearing my eye mask to keep out the daylight. I woke to the sound of Ida on the phone. I crawled out of my small but comfortable bed, wrapped a giant fleece blanket around my tiny frame and wondered through the flat enjoying my very first view of the country in the light. Trees. We rummaged through the fridge, and I decided on scrambled egg and bacon on toast. I never eat bacon and I'm the worst pescatarian ever it would seem. Who needs chicken or fish when you've got fatty crispy bacon! We watched an hour of America's Next Top Model, and I just stared at the Swedish subtitles and then we began to pack our things up, shower, and get ready to hit the road for our 3 hour drive to the summer cabin - located in a place that I can never remember the name of. Driving through downtown Stockholm was quite something, and I was glued to the window constantly comparing with things that I recognized from American and England. It's what I always do when I go anywhere new to me - I like to notice the differences and the similarities. Like, how the doors in Sweden are completely different when they lock and logically it makes no sense to me. Or, how the streets and road signs remind me so much of highways throughout America, or how Sweden doesn't really have bilboards and it makes everything seem so much cleaner and neat. We listened to various mixes I had made for our trip,most of which I just took from my mixwit mixes. I was hoping that there would have been more to look at,but again, it was just trees. Beautiful pine trees, but still just trees. We took a bit of a break and stopped at a place Ida had spent many times having lunch there with her family. It was a small cafe/diner kind of place - but completely different from the kind I was used to. The sky was grey and it had been raining on and off all afternoon, but it had cleared up long enough to make our way in. It was full of people who's faces looked so long and thin, and everyone seemed to stop what they were doing for a moment to look at us, and then continue on with their meals. I had a turkey, lettuce and tomato sandwich and Ida had a typically Swedish lunch of an open faced meatball and beetroot relish sandwich. Water to drink x 2. We left, and went for a walk around the area, close to a nearby lake, Ida smoked a cigarette and then we carried on...making our way closer to the cabin.... |