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yannisSo, yeah, about my trip to Stockholm.
It was my fourth visit to this city (since 2014), by the way, so I knew what to expect.
So, it went like this:
February, 26th: I arrived in Stockholm late in the evening, it was freezing cold, not much to do anyway.
27th: it was snowing the whole day I think, although the snowfall was quite weak, but anyway. I spent the first half of the day in the City Museum (free), then went to the concert.
28th: it was sunny, but freezing cold again. At about 11.15 I went to the Parliament to meet Greta Thunberg, but there was no Greta, unfortunately. There were some kids and old dudes though, less then twenty of them, I think, with slogans "Fridays for future", but no Greta. Guess she has some better things to do, like travelling across the globe on a luxury yacht, instead of standing near the Parliament in this fucking cold. Well, so instead I visited the National Gallery (free), then walked a bit around the city and went to Moderna Museum (free). They are holding a temporary exhibition about Soviet panel houses. By about 20:00 I was fed ut with all this shit, and the museum was closing anyway, and it was too late, so I went home.
29th: I woke up at 7AM, and immediately went out to make some photos of the city, but in twenty minutes it was snowing like hell, no sense to stay outside. I sat at home for two hours, and this whole time the snowfall continued. Like, all the museums are still closed, and it is fucking snowhell in the street. But I had one more mission: check in and print the fucking boarding passes. Yes, due to some reasons I had to find a desktop computer and a printer. So I went to the National Library. It was due to be opened at 11AM. So before it opened I climbed a pretty low hill with an Observatory on the top, just next to the National Library. It's kinda one of the oldest Observatories in the world, and the National Library was built in 1928, if I'm not mistaken. Well, at least by that time the snowfall was over. By the time the doors of the Library opened, there were about twenty people waiting outside. So, as I wasn't living in Sweden, they gave me a temporary access code (they told me I can use a computer for one hour), and printed my boarding passes (it costed 3 Krones per page, hence 30 cents). After that I walked through the city, the weather began to change for the better, but there was not much time left for me, unfortunately, at 13:50 I had to board the bus and go back to Skavsta. I had to make a stopover in Warsaw, so the plane was full of Poles.
What else to say.
Stockholm is full of free museums. The National Gallery is free. By the way, it was opened in October, 2018, before that it had been undergoing a massive reconstruction ever since I visited Stockholm for the first time in 2014.
But almost all other museums are free, too. Usually you have to pay only for the temporary exhibions, and they are quite expensive, like 150 Krones or even more. Excepf for the City and Moderna museums I've visited, Stockolm also has the following free museums: Army museum, Fargfabriken, Historiska museum, Livrustkammaren, Mangulturellt center, Nationalmuseum, Naturhistoriska museum, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Roksidrottmuseet... And hell knows how many more. So I guess if you have no money, you can come to Stockholm for a week and spend the whole week in the free museums lol. And if you are 18 or younger, there are even more free museums. Not like in fucking Helsinki or Oslo.
But the weather, the weather really sucks, even at the end of February. I've been there for four days, and there was just one day free of snow, but it was fucking cold. I guess this is the reason for the number of free museums lol. Like if there were no free museums, I don't know what should the tourists have been doing lol.
As for the concert, I spent it in the second row, because the ticket stated that the concert should have started at 20:00, so I arrived at about 18:30, and it turned out that the doors were already open. Fuck. By the way, as I understand, it was the same venue where I saw The Knife when I visited Stockholm for the first time in 2014. I had no idea what "The Knife" was, I only knew it was pretty popular among hipsters and they were going to break up, so these were their last two shows (at least in Stockholm) and as I had some extra money (ugh, these were the days) I bought the tickets for the both of them, and both concerts were sold-out. The rest is my personal history lol. But again, back to this Lindemann concert. Inside there was another unexpected unpleasant surprise awaiting for me: the cloakroom costed 50 Krones, but they didn't accept cash. Like, at all. Fucking motherfuckers. There were two warm-up bands before Lindemann: Jadu, disgusting shit using Nazi-like uniforms, but with a mulatto girl as a vocalist and another disgusting shit, The Aesthetic Perfection. At the end of their set the leader of the band threw a drumstick in the crowd, and I and a Swedish girl standing at my right caught it at the same time, so I gave it up as she was a girl. Fucking shit, Lindemann haven't even made it to the stage, and the concert was already turning up fucking awful for me.
Well, at last all this shit was over and Till with the band in their white suits climbed up the stage. Well, as I've already watched many videos on Youtube, there was not much new to me. Although there were some differences: while he and Peter travelled in a transparent ball across the venue, they were alone, without these seductive girls in Till's masks I've seen in the videos. Maybe it's because Sweden is too feminist country for such a show? I guess feminism and shariah laws are really going hand in hand. Then, it was unexpected for me when in the beginning of Blut they started to spray the front rows with water. Guess I missed this song while watching Youtube videos lol. This water spraying caught me by surprise. And then, during Fish On, Till was not simply throwing the fish to the public with his bare hands, in the end he was using some kind of catapult/sling lol. Some people in the public caught the fish and threw it back lol. So the next song after Fish On the band performed in some kind of black plastic covers atop their white suits, not to become dirty with fish fluids if someone manages to hit them with it lol. Occasionally they picked up the fish that had fallen on the scene and threw it back.
All in all it was fun (in the Rammstein sense of this word lol) and dirty. After the concert I bought a t-shirt.
And yeah, one more thing. When I was walking from the metro station to the venue, I overheard a talk between two women (they were talking in Russian). One of them was from Ukraine, and she basically said: "Yeah, I arrived here, told the authorities I'm from a war torn region, and they immediately granted me asylum".
So yeah, once again: fucking Swedes, I hate you, fuck you all.
And yeah, they checked my passport both in Skavsta and in Warsaw. Like there are many people trying to illegally leave Sweden for Poland or Poland for Greece lol.
It was my fourth visit to this city (since 2014), by the way, so I knew what to expect.
So, it went like this:
February, 26th: I arrived in Stockholm late in the evening, it was freezing cold, not much to do anyway.
27th: it was snowing the whole day I think, although the snowfall was quite weak, but anyway. I spent the first half of the day in the City Museum (free), then went to the concert.
28th: it was sunny, but freezing cold again. At about 11.15 I went to the Parliament to meet Greta Thunberg, but there was no Greta, unfortunately. There were some kids and old dudes though, less then twenty of them, I think, with slogans "Fridays for future", but no Greta. Guess she has some better things to do, like travelling across the globe on a luxury yacht, instead of standing near the Parliament in this fucking cold. Well, so instead I visited the National Gallery (free), then walked a bit around the city and went to Moderna Museum (free). They are holding a temporary exhibition about Soviet panel houses. By about 20:00 I was fed ut with all this shit, and the museum was closing anyway, and it was too late, so I went home.
29th: I woke up at 7AM, and immediately went out to make some photos of the city, but in twenty minutes it was snowing like hell, no sense to stay outside. I sat at home for two hours, and this whole time the snowfall continued. Like, all the museums are still closed, and it is fucking snowhell in the street. But I had one more mission: check in and print the fucking boarding passes. Yes, due to some reasons I had to find a desktop computer and a printer. So I went to the National Library. It was due to be opened at 11AM. So before it opened I climbed a pretty low hill with an Observatory on the top, just next to the National Library. It's kinda one of the oldest Observatories in the world, and the National Library was built in 1928, if I'm not mistaken. Well, at least by that time the snowfall was over. By the time the doors of the Library opened, there were about twenty people waiting outside. So, as I wasn't living in Sweden, they gave me a temporary access code (they told me I can use a computer for one hour), and printed my boarding passes (it costed 3 Krones per page, hence 30 cents). After that I walked through the city, the weather began to change for the better, but there was not much time left for me, unfortunately, at 13:50 I had to board the bus and go back to Skavsta. I had to make a stopover in Warsaw, so the plane was full of Poles.
What else to say.
Stockholm is full of free museums. The National Gallery is free. By the way, it was opened in October, 2018, before that it had been undergoing a massive reconstruction ever since I visited Stockholm for the first time in 2014.
But almost all other museums are free, too. Usually you have to pay only for the temporary exhibions, and they are quite expensive, like 150 Krones or even more. Excepf for the City and Moderna museums I've visited, Stockolm also has the following free museums: Army museum, Fargfabriken, Historiska museum, Livrustkammaren, Mangulturellt center, Nationalmuseum, Naturhistoriska museum, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Roksidrottmuseet... And hell knows how many more. So I guess if you have no money, you can come to Stockholm for a week and spend the whole week in the free museums lol. And if you are 18 or younger, there are even more free museums. Not like in fucking Helsinki or Oslo.
But the weather, the weather really sucks, even at the end of February. I've been there for four days, and there was just one day free of snow, but it was fucking cold. I guess this is the reason for the number of free museums lol. Like if there were no free museums, I don't know what should the tourists have been doing lol.
As for the concert, I spent it in the second row, because the ticket stated that the concert should have started at 20:00, so I arrived at about 18:30, and it turned out that the doors were already open. Fuck. By the way, as I understand, it was the same venue where I saw The Knife when I visited Stockholm for the first time in 2014. I had no idea what "The Knife" was, I only knew it was pretty popular among hipsters and they were going to break up, so these were their last two shows (at least in Stockholm) and as I had some extra money (ugh, these were the days) I bought the tickets for the both of them, and both concerts were sold-out. The rest is my personal history lol. But again, back to this Lindemann concert. Inside there was another unexpected unpleasant surprise awaiting for me: the cloakroom costed 50 Krones, but they didn't accept cash. Like, at all. Fucking motherfuckers. There were two warm-up bands before Lindemann: Jadu, disgusting shit using Nazi-like uniforms, but with a mulatto girl as a vocalist and another disgusting shit, The Aesthetic Perfection. At the end of their set the leader of the band threw a drumstick in the crowd, and I and a Swedish girl standing at my right caught it at the same time, so I gave it up as she was a girl. Fucking shit, Lindemann haven't even made it to the stage, and the concert was already turning up fucking awful for me.
Well, at last all this shit was over and Till with the band in their white suits climbed up the stage. Well, as I've already watched many videos on Youtube, there was not much new to me. Although there were some differences: while he and Peter travelled in a transparent ball across the venue, they were alone, without these seductive girls in Till's masks I've seen in the videos. Maybe it's because Sweden is too feminist country for such a show? I guess feminism and shariah laws are really going hand in hand. Then, it was unexpected for me when in the beginning of Blut they started to spray the front rows with water. Guess I missed this song while watching Youtube videos lol. This water spraying caught me by surprise. And then, during Fish On, Till was not simply throwing the fish to the public with his bare hands, in the end he was using some kind of catapult/sling lol. Some people in the public caught the fish and threw it back lol. So the next song after Fish On the band performed in some kind of black plastic covers atop their white suits, not to become dirty with fish fluids if someone manages to hit them with it lol. Occasionally they picked up the fish that had fallen on the scene and threw it back.
All in all it was fun (in the Rammstein sense of this word lol) and dirty. After the concert I bought a t-shirt.
And yeah, one more thing. When I was walking from the metro station to the venue, I overheard a talk between two women (they were talking in Russian). One of them was from Ukraine, and she basically said: "Yeah, I arrived here, told the authorities I'm from a war torn region, and they immediately granted me asylum".
So yeah, once again: fucking Swedes, I hate you, fuck you all.
And yeah, they checked my passport both in Skavsta and in Warsaw. Like there are many people trying to illegally leave Sweden for Poland or Poland for Greece lol.
