My European adventures officially started this weekend with a trip to Stockholm with my flatmate Zara. Stockholm on a budget was not easy but we made it happen our whole trip was slightly under £100 (including the flight)! We got in Friday night and stayed in a hostel that was on a boat it was my first hostel experience and it was really nice the people in our room were a bit loud but that's to be expected when you are sharing a room with 10 other people! Saturday we got up and saw the changing of the guard at the royal palace and then walked around the city and window shopped and also ate some delicious pastry. Saturday night we had a booking at the Absolute Ice Bar (total tourist attraction and totally worth it!) the whole bar was made of ice even the cups (that held our absolute vodka drink of choice) and we had awesome winter capes to wear! Saturday night we didn't pre-book a hostel (b/c we booked our flight so late every hostel we looked at was really expensive) so we started our night of homelessness. We found a cheap place to eat dinner and play cards. Then moved to a bar in Gamla Stan (or Old Town as we were told the locals call it!) that stayed open to 3am. After that we hit up a fast food place which was open to 5am and then moved on to what we lovingly called our "home" the City Terminalen Bus Station. Sleep, however, did not come easily to either Zara nor I so we played lots of cards
in the bus station until we had to catch our bus to the airport. It was a long day of traveling on Sunday and after we got home and made dinner we retired to our beds for a nice 11 hours of sleep, which was rudely disrupted by class the next morning...Overall our homeless in Stockholm experience went really well but from now on I will know to book a hostel, sleeping in bus/train stations just isn't for me!
My European adventures officially started this weekend with a trip to Stockholm with my flatmate Zara. Stockholm on a budget was not easy but we made it happen our whole trip was slightly under £100 (including the flight)! We got in Friday night and stayed in a hostel that was on a boat it was my first hostel experience and it was really nice the people in our room were a bit loud but that's to be expected when you are sharing a room with 10 other people! Saturday we got up and saw the changing of the guard at the royal palace and then walked around the city and window shopped and also ate some delicious pastry. Saturday night we had a booking at the Absolute Ice Bar (total tourist attraction and totally worth it!) the whole bar was made of ice even the cups (that held our absolute vodka drink of choice) and we had awesome winter capes to wear! Saturday night we didn't pre-book a hostel (b/c we booked our flight so late every hostel we looked at was really expensive) so we started our night of homelessness. We found a cheap place to eat dinner and play cards. Then moved to a bar in Gamla Stan (or Old Town as we were told the locals call it!) that stayed open to 3am. After that we hit up a fast food place which was open to 5am and then moved on to what we lovingly called our "home" the City Terminalen Bus Station. Sleep, however, did not come easily to either Zara nor I so we played lots of cards
in the bus station until we had to catch our bus to the airport. It was a long day of traveling on Sunday and after we got home and made dinner we retired to our beds for a nice 11 hours of sleep, which was rudely disrupted by class the next morning...Overall our homeless in Stockholm experience went really well but from now on I will know to book a hostel, sleeping in bus/train stations just isn't for me!
Clever girls!
ReplyDeleteWhy no pics of the ice bar?????