Sweden

The week before last, was our intersemester break, which was a great opportunity to relax a little and recover from the 2 weeks of exams that preceded it. The university are going to get rid of it next year! Nooooo! Claire and I used the opportunity of a week off to travel to the lovely country that is Sweden. Why Sweden? Well ryan air had some cheap flights going and I've always fancied going there, especially since I made some lovely Swedish friends in Valencia a couple of summers ago.

We went to Stockholm and stayed in a youth hostel on a boat!


Isn't it pretty! We had a nice cabin on it which we had to ourselves most of the time, except the one night a Finnish lady joined us. She was a little boring, she didn't want to talk at all, this may be because she was tired. She slept solidly from 5pm to 8am the next morning. Strange lady!


On the first day we went to visit the Vasa museum, which was all about a big ship called the Vasa which sunk 20 minutes into its maiden voyage. The ship was a little top heavy you see! They forgot about the Vasa until recently (350 years after it sank), when they managed to bring the whole thing up off the sea bed and built a museum for it.















We visited lots and lots of things. We visited some of the many islands comprised in the archipelago (the 22000 islands that surround Stockholm) , I don't really want to bore you with the details, but they really were lovely. The water all around them was frozen and they were all covered in snow. It really was nice. I also met up with my friend sofie, which was lovely as I haven't seen her in nearly 2 years! She invited us to dinner, and we reminisced about the old times! How old do I feel!