I wanted to share what I've been up to over the past few days since I completed Gustav's maze... I spent Sunday wandering the island of Södermalm ("South Island"). It would have been helpful to make the directional discovery earlier... Norrmalm (North Island) and Östermalm (East Island) probably would have stuck a little quicker. Anyway, …
Saturday I took an hour ferry ride west to Drottningholm, location of the residence of the Swedish royal family. I'm not real big into "royals" but it was a beautiful sunny day and I heard they only get 15 of those a year in Stockholm, so I jumped at the chance to take a ferry …
Wow, what an interesting day and a half this has been! There was really no way to prepare emotionally for how I'd handle the start of this trip, but now that it has begun I wanted to put my thoughts to paper while they are fresh, because who knows how I'll feel a week from …
tedious and brief 