137. Cultural High

22nd May 2014, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Seeing as I've filled my culture quota for the month on ceramic sculptures I had the perfect excuse to visit the House of Culture in Stockholm for the first time, without actually having to deal with any culture.

On this beautiful pre summer day of glorious sunshine I was stealing my former German Class Companion away from her job to enjoy an al fresco lunch in central Stockholm. With 10 years having passed since graduating from school and us, quite frankly, being terrible at speaking German - I always enjoy this annual status update of ours.

Stockholm caught on to the roof top terrace thing late, but when they did catch up - they did it good. There's a roof top in every corner it seems and when the rooftop overlooks the most beautiful city in the world, nothing can really go wrong once up there. Unless you fall off it obviously. I have a feeling I could care less about the view if I was crashing towards my death, even if the architecture is beautiful.

When I first told GCC that I had very sharp elbows and that I would always manage to get us a seat, no matter how crowded a place was this was met with a lot of scepticism. And although she may think the couple at our table left because they were finished with their meal, I know it was my presence that made them pack up and leave. That is how great I am at snagging a spot just about anywhere - the bigger the crowd, the greater the challenge and I love a good challenge.

 

So, whilst GCC was having water, I as the lady of leisure that I am enjoyed a huge glass of wine with my salmon whilst recapping the last year of our lives as far as work, men, travels and family updates went. In Swedish, not German I might add. Seeing as my recollection of German class consists of some grammatical rules and a few rude rhymes, it would be a very short and rather boring, but not necessarily inaccurate recap.

 

Already looking forward to the summer recap of 2015!

 



Gorgeous Swedish salmon with gorgeous Swedish dill crème and gorgeous Swedish Veggies.

Guten Tag. Wasser ist als Fonds als Wein. Versprich. Wer braucht Deutschunterricht, wenn es Google Translate?