March 2016
Stockholm, as far as I remember, was the first city we decided to actually fly to.
The first thing a tourist sees at the airport - Stockholm just starts shitting in your eyes with its advancement. If memory serves, they write even in the toilet that the water even in the toilet is better than at your home
Despite the city being so cosmic, transport, in my opinion, was a bit crooked. Buses ran from the airport, tickets we bought at home. The black driver on the bus didn't know how to punch such tickets, but tried very hard and was generally positive. Punched them twice, apparently. The white person training him forgave it and said we should explain what happened on the way back. Spoiler alert, nobody cared
Paper metro tickets weren't worth buying - it's cheaper to buy a card where you load a weekly pass. Sweden, like other Western European countries - backward when it comes to convenience
We lived in a "botel", a hotel-boat. One of the biggest impressions. Fun fact - lunch and wifi were on another boat.
Around was nature similar to the dorm in Czechia
One thing was clear - there would be a lot of man-made beauty in the city
And views
People in the city care about warmth
Even where you don't expect it
And entering the metro you understand what Stockholm syndrome is
"Old Town" in Swedish, as I remember now, how it's pronounced on the loudspeaker. Memorable that one day right at this entrance skinhead-kids set up a speaker with music and partied scary. Among them was a skinhead-black guy, I was impressed then
Water
The city itself is extremely pleasant
Wherever you look
Back then we liked sending postcards to ourselves. Here it was a bit more complicated than usual - there were no post offices at all (or I'm an idiot). Had to buy a stamp at 7-Eleven and put the postcard in a box. One 7-Eleven didn't have the right stamp. At another, a Cuban salesman talked with us for about an hour, and you couldn't leave. Was somehow both fun and not really
Signs
Doors
Metro inside
Memorable advertisement that's completely unprotected, take it if you want
Some very famous pastry. Generally I'm wildly amused now by one stupid feature of Swedes. They're extremely proud of their inventions like WE DRINK COFFEE DURING THE DAY WITH FRIENDS WE'RE VERY ENLIGHTENED NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO EVEN KNOWS HOW TO DRINK COFFEE. Danes with their WE INVENTED SITTING AT HOME UNDER A BLANKET AND RELAXING AND THEREFORE WE'RE BETTER THAN YOU, SHE'S NOT A SLUT IT'S JUST HYGGE aren't far behind. The ability of Scandinavians to call boring shit a beautiful word and sell it to rural idiots from Eastern Europe - just bomb
View from hotel toilet - best toilet view ever
Bench with who knows what (probably also with some name and traditions like SITBLÖ)
Remember really liking this brown district
URINAL (apparently toilet is too simple)
Market
Beauty
Went to a park that's supposedly all in traditional style
Well okay, I shit on Swedes, but credit where it's due - the city is clearly one of the best in the world
Well unless you eat there - there's simply no normal food. Only expensive pretentious shit
Museums, as I remember, were all free. Old Swedish ladies addressed all tourists in English, me - strictly in Swedish. In countries where there are stereotypes about blondes there usually aren't really blondes, but locals always stubbornly believe in these stereotypes.
In the photo - result of drawing with eyes at the technical museum
Well, Stockholm - in places melancholy
In places - beauty
Which for any Russian sounds like "home, sweet home". The city clearly enters my top.