Bienvenidos a Sverige

It was a busy, but wonderful night before leaving Prague. Having a nice dinner with Silvestru Family and than exclusively they provided us an unforgettable night tour around Prague, for few minutes we transformed our car in a horse carriage, which means that we have the permission to drive through Old Town Square and other places :

I was not waiting so impatiently for this journey, but anyway there were some questions like :
Tickets? Check.
Passport? Check.
Filebox with instructions? Check.
My head? Check…
Putting things in and out the luggage, trying to think rationally “Do I need an extra pair of socks or will I be fine with the 100pairs I already have in my bag

The goodbye ritual which was prepared by my friends on the bus platform was really unexpected and very funny, thanks everybody! Even in the bus, the guy, who was next to me, asked me “Emigruješ do Švédska nebo co? ” (Are you emmigrating to Sweden?). I am convinced that everybody remembered our goodbye ritual, because today I was walking in the center of Stockholm and one Czech student recognized me and said “jeee ty seš ten co měl velkou rozlučku“ (oooh, you the guy who had big goodbye ritual).

My bus took off at 17:30 from Prague, the capital of Czech Republic . Yes, bus, because with my extra 20kg I was not planning to pay some extra 60EUR at the airport and also I took the bus, because the ticket wasn’t so expansive, exactly 0,00 CZK .

The journey was quite pleasant, except the thing that it seems Czech Republic is not so welcomed in Schengen. German custom stopped us and again they didn’t like the color of passport of some passengers. 2 people left the bus for a short trip to the local police station. From Germany to Denmark we swam in a ship of the size of 2 Republics of Moldova. During the 45 minutes journey to Denmark, all the passengers were obliged to leave the bus and go upstairs to play some games, make some shopping or just swim in the sea. From Copenhagen the bus was almost empty which was good for my legs.

First impressions about Sweden:

- cleanness, green trees everywhere, it seems that in the central part of Sweden didn’t snow at all this year:

- everybody has 1 Volvo and 1 Saab :

- nice people, everybody speaks good English.

- interesting prices.

- so many lakes, I read somewhere that Sweden is the land of 100,000 lakes.

- only 4-5 hours of sun per day !!!!

The day of my arrival, the 19th of January, was a little bit windy. The first impressions were absolutely positive: everybody was very polite, Swedish people are very friendly, for example: i was standing in the middle of the T-Central station (main bus/train station) with 2 huge luggage looking around for directions when noticed a blondish girl looking at me. When our eyes met, she just smiled, walked to me and in a fluent English she said: “You look a little bit lost. May i help you?”. Even older people that i asked for, the way talked good English, the city looked very clean, nice, rich in architecture, busy.

Stockholm is really an amazing city, the only how I can demonstrate this thing is to place some panoramic photos: