Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg

Stockholm is an extremely interesting city to live in. You just have to know or know someone who knows something about the city and has a story or two to tell you.

I've passed by this building many times without paying any attention to it until one day a friend of mine told me that it has something to do with Stockholm syndrome. I just had to look it up and indeed it does. This is the place where the Stockholm syndrome was born!

The syndrome wasn't actually born in this building but the Norrmalmstorg robbery that took place in it in 1973 led to the introduction of the term which is used world-wide nowadays.

Rotating

Swedes undoubtedly do love rotating things be it roundabouts or rotating doors. They are everywhere and they are building more and more of them. I don’t know whether they do any good but rotating doors are annoying. So are the roundabouts.

I haven’t noticed that many in Stockholm where I live at the moment. I guess the reason is that the city was built long before the trend has started and there’s just no space to build the new ones. But there’s always some space to put yet another rotating door in.

When it comes to less inhabited places like Haparanda, Swedes do go wild and Finns are trying not to stay behind. I haven’t noticed that many rotating doors there but roundabouts are everywhere!

Let’s say you’re driving from Kemi, Finland to Kalix, Sweden. When you cross the border you have to go through 6 (six!) roundabouts within 5 (five!) minutes! Check out yourself if you don’t believe me. And look at the number of roundabouts around those six. I’ve instantly spotted six more.

Insane! Do they really like to rotate that much?

Scientific Communication and Research Methodology

Blah blah blah blah. Sounds like fun. Blah blah. Overslept the first lecture but heard a lot of "nice" things about it. Trying to make myself do something useful. Haven't opened my work laptop for weeks. Exam period was an excuse earlier but now I have none. Shitload of time and shitload of things to do. Gotta stop slacking off. Somebody spare some willpower!

Long Story Short

Where the hell have I been and what the hell have I been doing? Been working and partying pretty much the whole sumer. Traveled around Portugal a bit. Visited Lisbon, Coimbra, Figueira da Foz and Sintra. Decided to quit my job and move to Stockholm. Got a work laptop instead and was asked to continue working remotely. I guess they do want to keep me. Moved to Stockholm. Went to Spain to travel and party for a week. Came back to Stockholm and started my Master's. Been studying and partying mainly. Visited Finland twice. Frankfurt, Venice, Berlin, Tallinn ahead. That's about it.

Rainy July

Gare do Oriente

Lisbon, Portugal

Aurora