24 Hours in Stockholm

July 4, 2009

Malaysia Air served me a very respectable fish curry, noodle salad, and coconut pudding last night.  Those flight attendants were mightily friendly.  The flight — on one of those huge double-decker planes — flew to Stockholm and then on to Kuala Lumpur.  It was funny, when we disembarked, to see those going on to Kuala Lumpur and those staying in Stockholm split off into two different lines; it looked basically as one might expect (Asian people on one side, blond people on the other).

I am staying in Stockholm at the Hotell Anno 1647 — as in, built in 1647 and later retrofitted with electronic keycards and indoor plumbing (not, certainly, in that order).  I selected the hotel specifically for its historicity and proximity to historical sites; however, the downside is that there is no elevator, and my room is really, really small: 

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My hotel is near this thing (the word for elevator is “hissen,” which, in the case of some elevators, is pleasingly onomatopoeic), the Katarinahissen:

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Here is the view from a cafe where I had a new type of beer I can’t remember how to spell:

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Here is me in front of some water.  I think this is a view of Gamla Stan.  (Not totally sure; Stockholm is actually a bunch of islands, but they’re very small islands, and you can, in most cases, walk from island to island.  The Brooklyn Bridge it ain’t). 

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