Lots of Abba
Aug. 5th, 2017 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953Two nights in the same hotel. This is a day of staying in one place.
I did walk over to the ferry terminal to check out things for tomorrow. Although it says it is near an underground station, I did think I may have problems getting to it that way, remembering it from the trip to Mariehamn two years ago.
The direct route is to cross the railway line over a footbridge, which I could manage. The bridge has high sides I could cross without problem. But the other side of the line, the bridge has just railings at the side to get to the terminal, and that bridge is too narrow for me to manage. I need to be at least three metres from an edge like that before my feet actually let me walk, so a bridge has to be at least six metres wide for me to cross. This bridge seems to be about three metres wide and I don't want to chance it. The alternative is to walk a long distance along the road parallel to the railway to a road crossing I can do, and then walk all the way back again. And even then, it's a long walk from the railway line to the terminal. I think I'll be taking a taxi tomorrow.
Incidentally, it's a completely new terminal to the one I used two years ago.
Turns out that it's Gay Pride day in Stockholm, and the route I took back into the centre of the city was the route of the parade. Very colourful and very loud, with lots of Abba. I'm not sure if that's because it's Sweden or because it's gay, or a combination of both.
After seeing parades of gay firemen, gay police and gay soldiers, I couldn't help thinking of the Village People. But there were also gay bakers and even gay skate-boarders. I think there were gay Star Wars fans as well.
I couldn't spend time in Stockholm without having some Swedish meatballs. I remembered a place I had them the first time I was here in 2011, and when I spent a night here after Archipelacon two years ago, I went there again, so I went back this evening. The place is still there and I am nicely full.
I did walk over to the ferry terminal to check out things for tomorrow. Although it says it is near an underground station, I did think I may have problems getting to it that way, remembering it from the trip to Mariehamn two years ago.
The direct route is to cross the railway line over a footbridge, which I could manage. The bridge has high sides I could cross without problem. But the other side of the line, the bridge has just railings at the side to get to the terminal, and that bridge is too narrow for me to manage. I need to be at least three metres from an edge like that before my feet actually let me walk, so a bridge has to be at least six metres wide for me to cross. This bridge seems to be about three metres wide and I don't want to chance it. The alternative is to walk a long distance along the road parallel to the railway to a road crossing I can do, and then walk all the way back again. And even then, it's a long walk from the railway line to the terminal. I think I'll be taking a taxi tomorrow.
Incidentally, it's a completely new terminal to the one I used two years ago.
Turns out that it's Gay Pride day in Stockholm, and the route I took back into the centre of the city was the route of the parade. Very colourful and very loud, with lots of Abba. I'm not sure if that's because it's Sweden or because it's gay, or a combination of both.
After seeing parades of gay firemen, gay police and gay soldiers, I couldn't help thinking of the Village People. But there were also gay bakers and even gay skate-boarders. I think there were gay Star Wars fans as well.
I couldn't spend time in Stockholm without having some Swedish meatballs. I remembered a place I had them the first time I was here in 2011, and when I spent a night here after Archipelacon two years ago, I went there again, so I went back this evening. The place is still there and I am nicely full.
