Foretaste of Stockholm

Stockholm was beautiful and we were lucky to have sunny weather almost all of the 30 hours we spent there.

Basically we were walking all the time, and my feet hurt so bad when we got back to the ship on Wednesday, but it was worth it. Especially I enjoyed the Old Town. I have always thought the best way to explore a city is walking - I would hate myself for taking part in a guided tour for tourists or museum marathons. Because after all, what'll you get of knowing in which year some person did something great here and there? I prefer remembering a nice coffee we stopped at or a pretty park we had some ice cream or an old church we saw and the emotions related to the places. I'd rather spend a day in places I don't know all about, but with people I love than a guided tour with most of the others being strangers.

Actually we also visited two museums: The Vasa Ship -museum and a Photography museum, which got me more enthusiastic about photographing. We saw three exhibitions: "Close to Home" from Anna Clarén, which reminded me of my childhood, Henri Cartier-Bresson's "The Man, the Image & the World" which was simply mind blowing, and Ruud van Empel's "Pictures don't lie", which was cool but kind of weird and reminded me of that I don't want to mix photo manipulation with photography.

I am so tired right now so I just have to leave the talk for tomorrow - there's a lot of it - but I'll leave you  with some comforting pictures from the trip! Though the sleep beat me in the after work of these too, but the rest will follow tomorrow.

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