Category Archives: Museums & Galleries

Views from Jens’ lens

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Gary

There are two amazing exhibitions currently on at Liljevalchs. One, The Dress Makes the Man, Haute Couture – A New Era, features the collection of fashion of a person called Fredrik Robertsson who not only buys it but wears it … Continue reading →

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Enter with gun and dead seagull

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Gary

Amanda said it was the weirdest thing she’d ever seen live on stage. And, to be fair, it was not a traditional version of Chekhov’s The Seagull that we watched in the Strindberg Intimate Theatre tonight. However, as we left … Continue reading →

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Shitastrophe

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Gary

I was sitting in the restaurant at the Vasa Museum today, when I noticed a couple sitting at the next table. They sounded French. They were there for lunch and, all through and after their meal, he didn’t take his … Continue reading →

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Unexpected Ajax

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Gary

I was sitting in Ten, the restaurant attached to the Stedelijk Museum, when a small, black and white dog, came up to me, tail wagging, begging to be patted. Obviously, I gave in. She belonged to a woman sitting at … Continue reading →

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Museums in contrast

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Gary

I returned home today to discover that Mirinda’s personnummer had already arrived in the post. She only found out it was being send out yesterday. That says a lot for the Swedish postal service. And the efficiency of the Skatteverket. … Continue reading →

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Public transport explained by a pigeon

Posted on March 28, 2023 by Gary

Quite often, on the buses, the driver will be a woman. This is so commonplace that I’m never surprised. Things have not always been that way. In Stockholm, in 1958, there weren’t any female bus drivers until the amazing Margit … Continue reading →

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Seven favourite things

Posted on March 14, 2023 by Gary

It took 352 years but, eventually, after a lot of false starts, the Swedish warship Resande Man (Travelling Man) was finally found at the bottom of the Baltic. She sank in November 1660 after being battered by both sea and … Continue reading →

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Erik of Pomerania and his horn

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Gary

I visited the Historiska museum back in the summer and only managed to see the Viking section. I raved about it to Mirinda, telling her how much she’d enjoy it. Today we visited and walked through the History of Sweden … Continue reading →

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Playing piano, on a pontoon, in the middle of an Italian lake

Posted on February 28, 2023 by Gary

Today I was off into Stockholm while Mirinda luxuriated in a Gaz Day with the girls. As for me, I managed to catch an express bus into Gullmarsplan, followed by the t-bana into Centralen in order to take breakfast in … Continue reading →

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Whisky in the bath

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Gary

There is something to be said about going to an away match a day early. Particularly when the match is 4.5 hours away. Even more particularly when the town in which the game is being played has something called a … Continue reading →

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