So, three days have passed by and I'm leaving Sweden in less than eight hours already. It hasn't been as long as the time I've spent in Copenhagen but anyway this is the end of another stage so let's write again.
My Monday was spent waking around Copenhagen's Little Mermaid site. The statue itself is indeed disappointing and not that cool as it seems - although emblematic nevertheless - but the surroundings are pretty cool: there's this fortress in the middle of a star-shaped lake, a park really close by and on the way to Little Mermaid on foot one can notice the Royal Palace.
I have then returned home to have lunch (and make dinner as well) and to pack. Also, I have to mention that was the day I officially did the stupidiest thing in my life (so far, of course): I had a cup of juice on my laptop which fell to the sofa and also a bit for my shirt. As I was cooking a pizza on the oven, I decided to put my shirt there to dry a bit; as it didn't work, I decided to turn on the oven. Yup, like my nigga Nas says in his Halftime hit, "rest in peace yo, I'm out".
After packing, I went to the Central Station to cash out my Rejsekort (I hope I nailed it this time) and get a ticket to Malmö, which I didn't because the queue was big af. Some nice Danish (I know, this is too vague) told me to go to the airport instead and get the train over there instead, which I did and successfully got some of the money I had on the card back and paid the rest in cash - although I've kept 1 DKK which I just remembered I forgot to use to tip the tour guides here in Stockholm and mock them. Still haven't got it on my account though; on the other hand, the last 20% of my Erasmus scholarship have finally arrived.
So, I'm back in Malmö. After leaving my lugagge in some locker in the station, I went wandering around mostly for the places I've been in November: close to the coast and in the garden nearby. Didn't have time to go to Trianglen, the more urbanized area, this time; well, I actually could have done it as the bus to come to Stockholm ended up being 30min late. Anyway, I took a longer route and I didn't turn any map - both physical or virtual - or asked anyone for directions and this is cool because my orientation isn't usually very reliable. This time it was great in my beloved Malmö: if I'm ever to live in Copenhagen, the third biggest Swedish city will be my resting and retiring place. Bikes and people jogging everywhere, beautiful and modern architecture, lots of green spaces in this Coimbra-size cozy and nice city.
The bus left at 22h40 and I had my first problem when entering the bus: it was almost full so I had to take the last seat in the middle of the last row - the one with no one ahead of me. Or at least that's what was supposed to be but after our first stop in Lund, we realized that the bus was overbooked due to these dudes who entered and made the non-English speaker driver check our tickets not once, but twice. They ended up traveling seated or laying on the floor of the corridor, which I don't even know if it's legal. I've already filled my complaint.
The voyage was more bearable than what I initially thought and there already be clarity in the sky at 4am (it's midnight as I'm writing this and it's still not totally dark) I went to sleep some hours at my Portuguese host, another really cool guy called Luís. I've done two free tours around the city and maybe due to the weather, Stockholm seemed to me too monochromatic (all in yellow). But the Old Town tour was more interesting than the first one in Söder-whatever and I then went to this 7/4 celebration with some American friends of Luís - and apparently there was this woman with an heavy metal shirt which had been pointed out as it was a "Christian celebration", which made his American friend feel at home in her own words. Disgusting.
I then went to have dinner with a Portuguese friend who comes here every once per month for working. We've discussed about how Swedish immigration policy and their political correctness "dictatorship" regarding the way foreigners are seen by the society is harming the country; some "no-police" zones are beginning to arise and as Luís says, if they all come to Stockholm there will obviously be a lot of homeless people on the metro begging. Integration is way more than just allowing people to come in, and if they don't want to be integrated then they might as well be kicked out. I'm very pro-multiculturalism but my (and our) European values have to be above anything else in our continent. Of course, I am talking only about "regular" immigrants, not war refugees: those shall be accepted anyway but we can place them in the interior as well where everyone will benefit from it.
About today, I did another general tour in the morning around the city main sites (Queen's street, King's garden, Nobel place, so on) and then went home to buy 4 hamburgers for 50 kr and save some more money as travelling is taking me a lot. I slept for a while and I then went to this Living Museum with an exposition about how propaganda was and is used to control the people and society mostly focused on Nazi Germany and the USSR. It will be till mid-August I believe. I headed to the Medieval Museum afterwards and spent 2h30 there.
I've already been in Europe's greatest museums but this one gotta be the most well-organized and structured ever. You can learn a lot about Stockholm, how it was founded, how people lived, what did they do, how did it evolved, alongside with all the background behind its discovery - it was meant to be just a random parking lot for the parliament. What amazed me the most, though, was the fact that they explained how they made the discoveries via osteopathy, carbon datation, face reconstruction and all those techniques. Just Nordic countries things, I think.
Well, gotta figure out how to get to the central station, pack and sleep a couple of hours. Back to you in Finland!
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