Oh my I felt so much better today than I did yesterday. I'm glad too because I had a lovely day planned in Stockholm with Stephan which turned out even better than expected, mostly due to our great timing. The weather was absolutely beautiful. We packed a quick bite for breakfast-cream cheese baguettes and fresh strawberries- to have on the hour long bus trip into town. Then we had a nice stroll through the shopping district where I got some gifts for people back home and we discovered that Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot is playing now at the theatre and the tickets are only 100 SEK for students. We managed to snagged the last set of seats that are adjacent to one another so we are going back to Stockholm next Saturday to watch some live theatre, in Swedish :) On our way to lunch we heard the drums from the changing of the guard over at Gamla Stan and thought that we were going to miss it because the change was happening at the same time as our reservations. Then to our surprise, the regiment marched right past us on the street to get to Gamla Stan and this week regiment had a full marching band.
Lunch was my treat (a late anniversary gift) at the Grand Hotel's smörgasbörd since Stephan had never actually had a real Swedish smörgasbörd before. We stuffed ourselves into a food coma on so much delicious food. Fun fact: this year's winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (named for the author of Pippi Longstockings and worth 5 million SEK, the 2nd largest literary prize in the world for children's literature) was sitting at a table nearby. After lunch, we walked over to the Moderna Muset (the Museum of Modern Art) where we got to experience some great modern art and interesting commentary with the audioguide. Some highlights include real Jackson Pollacks, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Magritte. But the greatest success of the day was confusing both our waitress and the audioguide lady at the musuem- neither could quite figure out why we spoke to them in Swedish but conversed amongst ourselves in English [plus Stephan got his audio guide in German, lol].
Lunch was my treat (a late anniversary gift) at the Grand Hotel's smörgasbörd since Stephan had never actually had a real Swedish smörgasbörd before. We stuffed ourselves into a food coma on so much delicious food. Fun fact: this year's winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (named for the author of Pippi Longstockings and worth 5 million SEK, the 2nd largest literary prize in the world for children's literature) was sitting at a table nearby. After lunch, we walked over to the Moderna Muset (the Museum of Modern Art) where we got to experience some great modern art and interesting commentary with the audioguide. Some highlights include real Jackson Pollacks, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Magritte. But the greatest success of the day was confusing both our waitress and the audioguide lady at the musuem- neither could quite figure out why we spoke to them in Swedish but conversed amongst ourselves in English [plus Stephan got his audio guide in German, lol].
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can you understand live Swedish theatre? and you say you're conversing in swedish now? bra!
ReplyDeleteI could understand a bit, but a I had a little bird whispering in my ear translations :) and I can have basic services related conversations in Swedish...tack så!
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