Sunday, May 25, 2008

Stockholm

No photos so far, but will post some soon :-)

My first impressions from Sweden:
  • everything is so green and there are so many trees and woods all around (55% of the whole surface is covered with woods)
  • the sun goes down very late at this period, at 10:30pm it started to get dark
  • people around were not so blond and so tall as I thought they might be :-)
My impressions from Stockholm:
  • there is water everywhere - many seagulls and other birds are flying around
  • men take much more care of themselves than here - all of them were very well dressed and their hair was really well cut, mostly they were dressed in suits or trendy jeans
  • men with buggies is very common phenomenon in Sweden (men have 60 days for maternity leave, the same for women, and it is not transferable between them; therefore, most of men take maternity leave as well)
  • the metro is very silent - in Prague there is always so much noise, here it is perfectly silent
  • as the density of population is very low, the city is not crowded at all (I remember in Dublin there were sooooo many people)
  • there is always the wind blowing
  • the prices are incredibly high
I really enjoyed this trip. Stockholm is very agreeable place to be. We were lucky and the weather was just perfect - the blue sky and the sun was shining. Moreover, what I enjoyed a lot were people in the dorm where we were staying. Even though we came just for few days, they were really open, asked us to join them for the BBQ. Comparing to Prague it was totally different feeling. Here hardly ever people say hello to each other while meeting in the corridor. We had really nice time :-)

No comments: