A monster weekend.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Cigars in the park! Last Friday the Stockholm office took a mid-afternoon to evening break to eat BBQ and drink Carlsberg. The sun was shining high and it was great to enjoy a Friday afternoon off, much like the good ol’ Australian tradition of beers at lunch! For more photos, view the post on Kontain.com.
We left here at about 9pm (sun still shining bright) and managed to make our way to to Seba’s welcome home gig at K2 in Södermalm. Not as many people as he would have pulled in Australia. I’d say we were amongst 50 of Stockholm’s only drum & bass crew (all very nice people, too!) who were there to give it all and have a great night. Seba’s music was as expected, deep, soulful and lots of bass. I didn’t get to catch up but I hear he is playing another gig in town soon! Woop!
From here, (yes, still on our way) we managed to find ourselves (thanks to Jonas) at a cave rave out the back of Liljeholmen. Now this was a special event of some sorts. Basically, these guys had found an abandoned train tunnel and decided to host a party about 500 meters deep. Behind that false wall is the true tunnel which stretches for miles. I think Johnny (pictured in the Seba paragraph) and I walked about another 500 meters before we realised how rediculous this was and ventured back. Needless to say we couldn’t see anything except for what light out iPhone’s were broadcasting into the dirt.
That was Friday.
Saturday I cooked up burgers and went to my work mate’s house party. I was heading off home at around 10pm until a few gin’s later we were heading off to another party on Liljeholmen, this time in an old office. There was some sort of animal theme going on and I met a cat while waiting in line for the bathroom. I was pretty tired from the night before but managed to hold out until the temperature was warm enough to go swimming in Trekanten pond… have a look at this!
Not bad for an early morning swim! The water was so still and warm enough to flap about in for around 30 minutes. We dried off in the sun and managed to make our way back home… only to return 10 hours later in the warmth of the afternoon to really enjoy the water.
On our ride back home, Liam (pictured with me) and I decided to stop for one last drink at Mälarpaviljongen which is a bar floating on the water between Kungsholmen and Södermalm. We stayed until the sun dropped drinking mojito’s and enjoying the summer time.
Oh, and everyday that the sun is out, so are the hot air balloons. Stockholm is a beautiful city to be in when it’s warm and sunny… if only it were like this for more than 2 months a year.
Nothing quite as large as last weekend for me this weekend, as I will be travelling to Arboga to meet my long lost relatives, but you never know… the week after that LONDON!
Hej!
