Wanna come with me to Sweden, honey?

Yes, we did it again! During the middle of February Dörte and Sabine abducted me to the Swedish capital Stockholm again. Again, yes! Last year during the Easter holidays we already attended Close-Up Festival. This year our travel took part earlier, but the topic of the travel was close up again. As there are regular and respectable live reviews out in the field (in Legacy Magazine and on Metal Inside, links are upcoming), I'm only focusing on the Gossip side of life here. Yay!

Start with the daytime, first of all: We didn't make it to the Vasa Musum - again! Even though we already planned the ferry from Slussen to Djurgården. Even though we've already had the perfect plan to conquer the warship, thanks to a local. Because the ultimate trick is, to go directly to the video booth and watch the about one hour long documentary about the ship and its history. If you spend additionally 2 hours to follow what you've learned on screen, you can even tell what you see - whithout being lost into the meticulous details.

The next sightseeing we didn't make AGAIN was the Royal Treasury. But at least we know the opening hours by now - last time we were just too late! Well, maybe baby, we were simply not in the mood: Skattkammeren was recommended to us as the perfect spot to see for couples on their honeymoon - wanna come with me to Sweden, honey?

But of course the Palace is a rewarding place to be outside the opening hours as well, as it is a good stage for any kind of photographic arrangements of any kind - not only for Japanese tourists. Their picture of us didn't work out anyway!

To stay with photographic arrangements: While the little Monteliusvägen was in almost every tourist guide of 2006, only one of us went there to look for Snowdrops there this time - why should we tramp on a touristic paternoster we already discovered previous to the hype?

But there was something new to us, too:
It is supercool to go shopping during REA in Stockholm!

Well, maybe not at Acne Jeans. Doh, that was a bummer. Go back to the start, fetch 4.000 SEK and start it over again: We started in Brunogallerian at Götgatan with Filippa K and H&M, our path led us to Gamla Stan, shopped a bit at Sound Pollution's shop in Stora Nygatan and ended up spending the rest of the money at Tyska Brinken: Indiska is just an all-too perfect shop which made-over our style!