{"id":3894,"date":"2012-11-02T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2017-11-05T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:11:34","slug":"my-first-10-days-in-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/2012\/my-first-10-days-in-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"My First 10 Days In Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so it happened, one day I woke up knowing that I had a plane from Fiumicino di Arlanda.<\/p>\n

It was the day that one of my biggest dreams became true.<\/p>\n

I remember looking outside the windows of the airplane, from Germany on there was a layer of clouds which covered the whole ground. I was expecing it.<\/p>\n

I remember also the airplane starting the descent manuever, looking outside with the eye of a pilot I saw the airplane piercing 3 layers of clouds! And I thought that the sun had no chance to reach the ground.<\/p>\n

Then all of a sudden there was a lot of green around us, so much treetops that I was really wondering if there was a runway in front of us \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Swedish<\/a>Coming out of the airplane the temperature fell down a little, and I remember looking around the airport area, I could see only trees 10 meters high (30 feet approx).<\/p>\n

Some people told me that Sweden is grey and sad, but looking around me at that time I though it was grey, green but beautiful.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a place to stay in the south of the city, on the other side compared to the airport, and it was a thursday night.<\/p>\n

I was tired but I said to myself that I would get the train and the the taxi. (not only the taxi as planned).<\/p>\n

Walking by the airport I say the advertisement of the bus shuttle service : we run on biofuel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And I decided to take my first biofueled bus ride!<\/p>\n

Getting closer to the city I was really surprised of how much traffic there was. Luckily for me we had the special bus lane so, no big deal.\"Swedish<\/a><\/p>\n

But I saw a bunch of cars that I didin’t expect to see on a Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

And only after the trip I made to get to my place I realized that I really underesimated the size of Stockholm. It is quite a larger city than the one I had pictured in my mind.<\/p>\n

I will barely mention how I felt breathless looking at the city reflecting in the water while the taxi (powered by biofuel!) was bringing me to my destination.<\/p>\n

After about one week I had the chance to walk in Galma Stan, as I also traveled back and forth all around the bus and tunnelbana system while I was looking for a permanent place to stay (which I found after a long and painful research!).<\/p>\n

And by doing this I had the chance to meet plenty of people, Swedish and not.<\/p>\n

I have to say that the Swede’s are really nice people, nowhere close as the cold-nordic-stereotype<\/em> that people that never even talked to a Swede believe they are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They are friendly and polite, if you smile or say \u201cHej\u201d to a perfect stranger on the bus they will smile back to you and reply, something that NEVER happened to me on a bus in Rome.<\/p>\n

In less than a week the temperature dropped and I saw the first snowflake of the year while I was walking during the evening in Kungholmen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I was surrounded by this snowstorm and felt a little nervous, but I became extremely calm when I saw that most of the people around me just kept doing what they were doing<\/em>!<\/p>\n

People kept cycling, kept pushing their baby’s trolley and kept walking on the streets keeping their’s lover’s hand.<\/p>\n

I keep feeling a little chilly even with my best (Italian) winter gear and people keep saying to me \u201cthis is not even the winter, is still autumn!\u201d.<\/p>\n

I saw a couple Swedish boys escorting their girlfriends to the bus stop and kissing them goodbye even with jackets much lighter than mine. I guess the Swedes have the heat inside!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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