WE à Stockholm avec Marianne

I'm gonna make this post in English because it's easier for everyone to understand.

With Marianne Miguet, we decided to spend one enlarged WE in Sweden. My friend Marianne is actually a student from my school (Ecole des Mines d'Albi) but she is currently studying at BØ in the asshole of Norway -_- That was easier for us to meet in Sweden so we just said :

let's go !

I took the train to reach Turku which is located on the eastern coast of Finland. I planned to join Stockholm by a night-travelling ferry. When I arrived on the boat, I was very amazed by the quality/price index which was very very good : 44 € for the 2-way trip with a cabin each time.

(Okay...some of you don't care, but it could be useful for future travellers !)

City Hall
(3 Crowns at the top representing Sweden, Norway and Denmark)

I arrived at Stockholm very early on Friday morning (6:30 a.m) and just started to walk to the hostel, which was supposed to be our meeting point for Marianne and her friends that she brought from Norway. The hostel was a little far away so I decided to make a part of the road using subway. When I asked for a ticket, the old saleswoman just typed "26" on her cash register and I was immediately so afraid that it could cost 26 € that I screamed at her ! She kindly made me notice that it was 26 SEK (Sweden Crowns)... :-$ *feel ashamed* (2,6 €)

I reached the hostel very early and started to wait for Marianne for hours and hours. Nobody was coming. So I decided to go on a tour in the center town, where I made some shopping in the huge malls. Then when I went back to the hostel at 6:00 p.m, Marianne had just arrived with a delay of about 8 hours... Then we went together in the center town to eat something local.

After a short night at the hostel (an old jail !), we waked up early to walk through the town. High aristocratic architecture, amazing buildings and churches with oxydized copper rooves : the center of Stockholm is really worth to be seen.

I just want to point out the City Hall building, built between 1911 and 1923, which is used for the yearly Nobel banquet (Alfred Nobel was Swedish). Absolutly marvellous ballrooms mixing both antique and modern inspiration...

The Golden Ballroom

We've completed our tour in the town with the visit of both Modern Art Museum and National Museum. But "pictures forbidden" sorry :'(

Do you recognize it ?! :-D

A special exhibition of Toulouse-Lautrec's work is about to start in mid-February at the National Museum!

(T.-L. is the most famous painter of Albi)