I just returned from a two-day business trip to Stockholm.
I left Copenhagen Wednesday morning on a 7:20 flight. On my way to the gate I had the pleasant surprise of running into Dolly, a woman we know who I hadn’t seen in a number of years, on her way to Iceland. That is we hadn't seen her until a few days ago when we, returning from our trailer park tour last Saturday evening, we ran into her and her man on the train.
Wednesday I ran three workshops back-to-back. I took the Metro to the Inedal, a boutique hotel where my company owns shares in a number of rooms. It is located on Kungsholmen, a pleasant island went of the city center (about a 6 minutes ride on the train). I had a nice little room on the fifth floor overlooking a park-like setting nestled between the adjacent buildings, and with a magnificent view of the surrounding rooftops and nearby Stockholm City Hall’s tower.
After a short break I went back into the center of town to see Signspotting, an hysterically funny outdoors exhibition of poorly worded signage from around the world, at Kungsträdgården, a wildly popular downtown park. People were out in droves—playing, lying on the grass, seeing the exhbition, and especially filling up every available seat in the many outdoor cafés ringing the park. So much for my brilliant idea of eating out in the park (unless I wanted to eat a hot dog standing up).
I headed towards a little nearby Middle East restaurant, which has a good reputation, when I spotted a number of empty tables in front of Village, a restaurant/night club on busy Norrmalmstorg (Norrmalms Plaza)-- a great place to watch people and the streetcars that have their terminus on the plaza.
Afterwards I walked back to the hotel, meandering along the colorful streets of Kungsholmen.
Thursday I had two meetings—one in the morning, and a second after a long-lunch, when I walked to nearby Kulturhuset (Culture House) on central Sergels Torg (Sergel’s Plaza) to see two photo exhibitions—Lennart Nilsson: Somewhere in Stockholm (information about the exhibition), photography from the 1940-50s by the world famous photographer (see three of the photos from the exhibition), and SEEK: In a house of snow (information about the exhibition), an unusual and alluring series of images by Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer based on Icelandic themes.
I returned home Thursday late afternoon in time for dinner al fresco with Aksel on the terrace.
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