Something that is really annoying me at the moment is how YouTube wants me to login to verify I’m human every time I want to play one of my OWN videos on my OWN blog. So, whenever I come across one, I upload the original video to my host and connect it directly to the post. I then delete the file from YouTube so, eventually, I’ll be done with the bastards. I did two this morning and felt very good about it.
But enough of that irritating nonsense.
Today was the day that Mirinda completed the set. Her second eye was sorted out. She now has 120% vision. She has better vision than an eagle. Okay, her pupil is currently huge, but that will be sorted by the morning.
So, we caught the number 3 bus which dropped us across the road from the eye clinic, then went for a coffee at Fabrique. Obviously, the woman recognised me and made my super strong coffee as usual. Actually, she admitted that she’d put four shots in rather than the three I normally have. She also made a lovely bit of latte art.
Following our pick-us-ups, we headed upstairs where Mirinda was given the drugs, the hair net and the shoe covers before being led off by the doctor.
While last week took about an hour, today she was back in about 20 minutes. We sat for the shortest of recuperating whiles, before heading back to the flat.
Mirinda wanted to nap for a few hours, so I went out for a bit of a Gaz wander.
The weather today was a bit hot for me, so I took it easy, heading first to Kungsträdgården for a cold beer, while watching the millions of milling people, hanging around the big pond, keeping an eye on their cavorting children, some in the shade of the no longer blooming cherry trees.
There really were a lot of people. It felt like the heat of the day had dragged them all out of some winter hibernation. When I was in Stockholm on my own, back in 2022, I was amazed at the amount of people in the city. Today felt worse. Obviously, I avoided the trams, but the buses were almost as bad.
I headed over to Gamla Stan on the Tunnelbana (also crowded) to get Mirinda some cheery chocolates and, obviously, a beer at the Liffey (somewhere I visited in 2022 as well) where I was served by an Australian bartender. It was then just a matter of finding a chocolate shop before heading back to the bus stop to head back to the flat.
There was quite the crowd in Stortorget with people milling around the Nobel Museum and sitting sipping hot chocolate at the outside cafés. At least, I assume it was hot chocolate. Could just as easily been gin, I suppose.
On the final approach to the flat, Mirinda texted to say there would be no international cuisine tonight, as she felt like staying in. I bought a couple of very nice salads from ICA, which we ate while watching a movie (Mean Girls the 2024 musical version).
Tomorrow we move to our next accommodation and resume our World Tour of Food.
