Sweden in Pictures

Chums. How's it going? We're now in Stockholm, Sweden, having come into Sweden to Östersund and then south to the capital. We've also bitten the bullet and bought a digital camera, so you now have the debatable pleasure of seeing photos of us in various exotic locations. If anybody is partcularly into self harm they can see them all at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelvinski, but there are a few with this post.

So, what have we been up to? Well, civilised doesn't even begin to cover it. We've been taking pleasant walks, visiting museums and generally seeing the sights. Stockholm truly is quite nice, set over loads of wee islands with some pretty good architecture, if you're into that kind of thing. The kids are right into goth as well, so walking about the town centre is guaranteed to raise a smile. Today we were at the museum displaying the salvaged Swedish warship Vassa, if I know my blogging onions there should be a pic somewhere, it's quite impressive and really well preserved. After that we ate our packed lunch in a park in the sun, and we've just paid 8 quid for a pint and a half of lager in a nice pub in the town. Altogether a pleasant day. Oh, and we saw a wee guy on the tube this morning who was the living image of Byron. He was only about 8, but boy was he rubbery.


Tomorrow we intend to start heading north again to get ourselves into Finland, and from there try to sort out or visas for Russia so we can get to St Petersburg. That should be fun. Still, the Finns are supposed to have a terrible problem with raging alchoholism, so there should be some quality banter going about, if only we could understand it.

Anyway, that's me for today, I'll try to satiate your salivating desire for our news some more from Finland. Catch.