When we were back home over Christmas I happened to see that Avicii was doing a few concerts in Germany, but sadly they were all already sold out. But, when I saw that he had a few other shows around Europe, I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to visit a new city and see him in concert all in one weekend- and Stockholm ended up being the winner. We flew up on a Thursday and left Sunday afternoon, but it was enough time for us to get a feeling for Stockholm. Overall we thought it was very clean and pretty.. plus everyone spoke English very well, which makes things (ordering, getting directions, meeting up with our Airbnb host, etc) so much easier. I’d say there were two negatives – one being that Stockholm is very expensive (entrance fees to museums and food/alcohol costs were crazy) and the other is that they had absolutely no snow! In South Carolina we don’t get much snow and northern Germany doesn’t get too terribly much either, so I was excited to see everything covered in white. You’d think Sweden in late February would be a good bet, right? Welp, not this year. Sweden has also been having the mild winter we’ve been enjoying in Germany, so there was no snow to be found (though it did snow a few hours after we left on Sunday!).
Thursday we didn’t get to Stockholm until dinner time, so once our bus from the airport dropped us at the central train station we walked to our Airbnb apartment to drop our bags off. We stayed near Sergels Torg, which is one of the main public squares in Stockholm. For dinner we went to a pub/restaurant … Morgan had a hamburger and I went for the Swedish meatballs (which really good!). They came with mashed potatoes and had gravy on top, plus lignonberries. I don’t think I had ever seen these until we moved to Germany. In Sweden they seemed to be very popular; they came on my meatballs and they even have lingonberry soda. The waitress talked Morgan into trying a St. Eriks Rauchbier (smoaked beer). St. Eriks is a Swedish brewery, so we thought it was worth trying, but it turned out to be kind of weird tasting and really expensive (€ 11 for one). After that we headed to the apartment since Friday was going to be a big day!
