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NEW YEAR IN STOCKHOLM. ON ONE'S OWN

20 January 2014 • Travel time: with 27 December 2013 on 04 January 2014
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INTRODUCTION

Once again, I greet you, dear lovers of tourism, and I hasten to please you with a story about my wife and I New Year's trip to Stockholm, where we rested from 27.12. 13 to 4.01. 14. By the way, this was not our first trip to this glorious city, we had already been there on 1.01. 09 (see my Titanic report). Well, what can you actually see there in half a day, especially on January 1, when many institutions, both cultural and educational, and drinking and entertainment, are closed? That's right: almost nothing. So we decided this time to get to know the Swedish capital closer.

HOW TO READ THE REPORT

As usual, I immediately warn you that this report will not be written in a book-newspaper language and with abundant use of jargon, including those invented by myself, but they should be intuitive. For those who do not like jargon, I strongly recommend that you close this page.


Also, all readers, I hope, understand that reading this report is their right, but not their obligation, but just in case, I remind you, otherwise you never know, suddenly someone forgot. For ease of perception, the report is divided into paragraphs, each of which is titled to enable each reader to read what is interesting to him and skip what is not interesting (for example, someone is interested in museums, someone is interested in pubs, someone is interested in travel by local transport, currency exchange for someone, hotel where we stayed, etc. ). Just in case, I repeat once again: you can read this report in full, or in part, or not read it at all - your right (which some for some reason forget about, and then start squealing like a pig in the comments, as if someone forced them to read ). In general, if you have not closed this page yet, I suggest that you do away with the lyrics and go directly to reading the report.

INDEPENDENTLY OR THROUGH A TRAVEL AGENCY?

Since last summer (2013) the bulls (in the national sense, of course, and not in the agricultural or economic sense), which issue visas to everyone for six months, issued them to us for a year, the answer to this question is obvious.

AIR TICKETS

I booked plane tickets on the website of my bank at the end of September. They cost us two back and forth in 27474 p. (SAS company; as it turned out later, together with Eraflot). And, I must say, we hurried a little with tickets: about half a month before departure, tickets for the same flights were still available, and even managed to get cheaper by as much as 5 thousand rubles. with pennies.

HOTEL SELECTION

We were looking for a hotel on Booking and in the end we chose Nordic Sea Hotel 4 * with an ice bar (and not only ice, of course). There are three classes of rooms in this rooming house: standard (18 squares), economy class (15 squares) and lumpen class (chirp of squares and with a painted window).

We decided to choose the Au-mid, which cost us 8540 crowns (or 984 Jews at the time of booking) on ​ ​ the terms of free cancellation of the reservation (if canceled more than a day in advance, nothing was charged, and in case of no-show or cancellation less than a day, the cost of one nights). Yes, we booked this rooming house somewhere in the middle of September.

MEDICAL INSURANCE

Everything is extremely simple: we go to the Rosgosstrakh website, select the necessary insurance, pay by card, get the file for soap, print it (or even print it directly from the site), and you're done. The whole process takes a few minutes. Perhaps, not only Rosgosstrakh has a service for issuing insurance via the Internet. If anyone knows, please share.

Day 1, Friday, 27.12. thirteen

We took off at 11.40 from terminator D Sharik by SAS flight together with Eraflot. As we expected, it turned out to be Yeraflot.


We wanted to pre-register for the flight via the Internet, but nothing worked out for us: Eraflot refused to register us, because tickets were purchased for the SAS flight, and SAS refused to register, because Eraflot carried out the transportation. I had to check in at the airport. After check-in, we were informed that the boarding gate would be either the 35th or the 36th, which are located on the 2nd floor. Well, we were delighted, they say, through the sleeve we will enter the salon, and not go to the plane in a cold, crowded, uncomfortable bus. However, we did not have to rejoice for long: at some point it was announced that the exit had changed to the 9th, which is already located on the first floor, which means that we could not avoid a bus tour of the airfield. And next to this exit there was a smoking room, which allowed anyone who wanted to smoke passively even without entering it. But still, Aeroflot turned out to be not so bad: at least they were fed there. In short, at 11.

05 we were already in Arlanda - one of the Stockholm airports. As you can see, they arrived even earlier than they flew out. : ) It's all, of course, in the difference in time, which is 3 hours during the winter time, 2 hours - during the summer.

PASSCONTROL IN STOCKHOLM

The passport control passed quite quickly, including because I did not forget to speed up my step after leaving the plane. When it was our turn, I greeted the border guard in Swedish, which I managed to master to some extent from textbooks in 3.5 months, he asked me in Swedish about the purpose and duration of the visit and, having received answers all in the same Swedish, quickly put My wife and I have cherished stamps in our passports. By the way…

SOMETHING ABOUT THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE

This language belongs to the German group along with English, German, Danish, Norwegian and some others. The Swedes themselves joke about their language that, they say, the grammar is English, and the words are German.

And with the Danes and Norwegians, they seem to even be able to speak each in their own language and understand each other quite well. The grammar of the Swedish language will be simpler than German, but the rules for reading are rather complicated (and there are many exceptions to these rules), so sometimes transcription is indispensable. It should also be noted that the Swedish language is rich in dialects, sometimes quite different from each other, so that speakers of different dialects sometimes do not understand each other. Also, this language is quite difficult to perceive by ear, so learning it without a language course is a dead number (a language course is generally desirable for learning any language, but for languages ​ ​ such as Swedish, it is simply necessary). At first, I was already clutching at my head: if the announcers of language courses speak like that, then how do the Swedes speak in everyday life?


However, everything turned out to be not so scary, I managed to communicate with the Swedes more or less tolerably, albeit sometimes with the transition to English, which the Swedes are very good at, if not all, then almost all. By the way, in one of the Swedish textbooks there was such a cool advice: when communicating with Swedes, tell everyone that you do not speak English, even if you actually do.

ABOUT CURRENCY EXCHANGE AND PAYMENT METHODS

While we were waiting to receive our luggage, I decided to exchange half a hundred Jews in cash for crowns. Well, you never know what you need. I found 2 banks in the baggage claim hall, in each of which the rate turned out to be extortionate, and even a chirp in the amount of a chirp was charged. Krokhoborka there, by the way, is a ubiquitous phenomenon, in my opinion, and usually amounts to 9-10% of the exchanged amount, but somewhere it can be fixed. For example, in exchangers of the Forex network, it is 50 crowns, so it is relatively profitable to change large amounts there.

In general, I received 392 crowns for this very half a bill. In vain I actually did it: you could easily drive to the city, and then exchange 200 - 300 bucks or Jews in the same Forex. In general, bank cards are accepted almost everywhere in Stockholm, but in some places cash may also be required: buy a transport card in the subway (they are sold only for cash) or some very cheap souvenir in a shop, like a magnet, leave a tip for the waiter (they, however, , you can leave in another currency). And small coins (1.5 and chirik crowns) are also useful for museum locker rooms and toilets, which will be discussed further south. In short, if you have a bank card, then it is better to pay with it everywhere and not to bathe. If for some reason it is not there, then it all depends on the currency in which you receive income: if in Jews or dollars, then you need to go with them, but if in rubles, then it will be more profitable to purchase the required amount in one of of the above currencies, because


Rubles are taken at a rather unfavorable rate there. And maybe it will even be more profitable to buy crowns in Moscow right away. But here, excuse me, to probe banks for scrap, so I suggest that all interested parties do it themselves. Further, I will quote all prices in Swedish krona, and in order for you to have an idea about the krone exchange rate, at the end of 2013 it was something like this: 1 Jew ~ 9 kroons, 1 bucks ~ 6.5 kroons, and 1 kroon is approximately equal to 5 rubles .

STOCKHOLM CARD (STOCKHOLM CARD)

Before going to our rooming house, we decided to buy with the Stockholm card, which we read about on the Internet before the trip (you can buy them at the information desks for tourists). These cards are for adults and children with a validity period of 1.2, 3 or 5 days. Prices for adult cards are as follows: 1 day - 495 kroons, 2 days - 650 kroons, 3 days - 795 kroons, 5 days - 1050 kroons, and for children 225.265, 295 and 325 kroons respectively.

Using these cards, you can visit 87 Stockholm museums for free (although each museum only once), as well as ride public transport for free, not only in Stockholm, but also in its suburbs: within zones A (Stockholm itself), B (nearest suburbs of Stockholm), C (further suburbs of Stockholm). It is noteworthy that airports are also included in zone C, however, according to the Stockholm map, you cannot get there by express train - neither by rail nor by bus. Unless in a roundabout way (more on that in the next section). Such a card is valid from the moment of activation, that is, when you enter a museum or public transport, the date and time of its first use are written on the back of the card. Should I buy such a card?


It’s definitely not worth it for 1 - 2 days, but for 3 or 5 days it can already be profitable (we bought for 5) if you are going to actively visit museums, viewing platforms, and also participate in cycling tours around the city (the latter, of course, only during a certain period - in my opinion, from April to September). As for the children's card, it will be clear whether it is profitable to take it or not, only after you decide on the program for visiting museums and study all the prices for them via the Internet. The fact is, admission to many museums for children is free (and in some museums people up to 19 years old are considered “children! ”), however, in some museums, a children's ticket is only slightly cheaper than an adult. As for travel in public transport, as I promised, the next chapter will be devoted to this.

ABOUT PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN STOCKHOLM

One trip by public transport (metro, bus, tram, boat, suburban train) within one zone costs 36 kroons, to the neighboring zone 54 kroons, and through the zone (from A to C or vice versa) 72 kroons. These prices are for full tickets. Reduced tickets, which are entitled to use by persons under 20 and over 65 years old, cost 20.30 and 40 kroons, respectively. To travel by bus, you must have a blue plastic card with you, which can be purchased from the controllers sitting in the booths at the entrance to any metro station for 20 kroons (though only for cash) or from some distributors (they are indicated on the posters at many public transport stops).

Then this card needs to be charged in a special machine (this can already be done both for cash and with a bank card), located in the same place, in the metro (this, by the way, is not so simple: even though the machine has instructions for Swedish and English, here, as they say, you can’t figure it out without a glass, but you can turn to the controller in the booth, they, as a rule, are kind dudes, they help). If frequent trips are expected, it is advantageous to charge the card for 24 hours (115 kroons or 70 kroons for preferential categories), 72 hours (230/140 kroons), 7 days (300/180) or even for a month (790/490). You can buy a card for longer periods, but these options, perhaps, can not be considered. Cards for 24 hours or more are valid within all three zones, however, as already mentioned, they are not suitable for travel on airport express trains. However, if you spend money on the express in scrap, you can use such a card to take the train to station M?


rsta (about 40 minutes from the central station), and then by bus 583 to the very terminator 5 of the Arlanda airport. I wonder if such cards are sold right at the airport. The idea is to sell. In this case, the order of travel will be approximately reversed. If you bother with cards in scrap, and there are no special problems with the loot, then you can get from the airport to the central station by train express (260 kroons) or by bus (99 kroons). You can, of course, also take a taxi. The cheapest costs, in my opinion, 320 crowns, and the most expensive is about 600.

ORDER OF TRAVEL IN CITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT

To travel on the subway (in Swedish, by the way, unlike many languages, it is called Tunnelbana, and therefore the entrances to the subway are marked with the letters T, not M everywhere) or a commuter train, you need to bring a pre-charged card to the turnstile reader, which is here will open its doors if it considers the card valid.

Entry to the bus is allowed only through the front doors (except for passengers with baby strollers), and this rule is strictly observed there. When entering the bus, you must always have a charged card with you, without which you will simply not be allowed to enter the salon. This card, as in the metro, must be applied to a similar reader, after which the inscription “OK” lights up on it with a characteristic short beep. But the trams there are arranged in such a way that the entrance to the driver's cabin is possible only through the passenger compartment, so entry into the tram is allowed through any doors (to enter and exit, you need to press the corresponding button on the door; you also need to press the button to exit the bus). Tickets on the trams are checked by the conductors with a handheld reader and I think they even sell single trip tickets there.

It was a bastard to figure out how to get to the rooming house by bus and train, as well as spending money on the Zheldorexpress, so we decided to choose the middle option - we took the express bus. The road took about 50 minutes. We were settled in the rooming house very quickly, despite the fact that we arrived there at 13 o'clock with something, and the settlement was provided from 15.00. I approached the girl at the reception, told her that we had booked a room, she asked me to fill in a couple of points on the form and immediately asked how I would pay, in cash or by card (the entire dialogue was in Swedish). I paid by credit card, after which we immediately received 2 room key cards.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE HOTEL AND ELEVATORS


There are already 6 elevators for customers in the hotel, so when you call the elevator, the doors of one of them immediately open.

To take the elevator to the desired floor, you must first insert the card into a special device, but to go down, the card is not required. The layout of the hotel is quite tricky, but thanks to the signs, your room, as well as the elevator, are very easy to find. But if there were no signs, the client could easily find himself in the same situation as Farad in the famous Soviet film, who ran around the building in search of a way out and was indignant: “Well, who builds like that! » The inscription “HISS ELEVATOR” indicates the elevators, but this does not mean that you need to hiss at it to call the elevator: hiss is the same elevator, only in Swedish.

Our room was on the 7th floor with an area, as already mentioned, of 15 squares. The double bed is quite narrow (duvet too) and pushed up against the wall. In the place where it is pushed up to the wall, a sconce hangs, and on the opposite side there is a floor lamp. Bedside tables are missing as a class.

But if the bed is moved away from the wall, then there would be enough space for these bedside tables on both sides. The closet is quite narrow, you can only hang there hangers with three or four shirts, sweaters, etc. For outerwear, there are hook-type hangers next to the door. There is a free-code chest in the room, installed at the bottom of the cabinet, which is rather inconvenient. On the other side of the cabinet there is a fridge-bar with meaningful and meaningless drinks at relatively affordable prices for such a bar. There are no handles on the cabinet. I tried to press on one door, hoping that a push-pull mechanism was installed inside - bald horseradish, I tried on the other - the same thing. I had to open one door, holding on to its bottom, but the second one is already a matter of technology. But push-pull mechanisms were still there! But they didn't work. I had to adjust them. Then I adjusted the same mechanism in the closet. In general, do-it-yourself cabinets.


There was a flat-table TV in the room named Filippok with a USB input, so if you wish, you can insert a flash drive there and watch films previously downloaded to it (but for downloading movies, music, etc. via the Internet in Sweden, it seems like a fine is provided) . There was also a wall-mounted air conditioner. However, we didn’t have to manage this air conditioner, because the room already had a very comfortable temperature. There was an electric kettle, as well as bags of tea and instant coffee, which, if I understood correctly, were free, judging by the fact that they were not listed in the price list. And also, when we entered the room, there were fruits in a bag on the table (pears, bananas and tangerines) and a note addressed to me personally, in which something like “thank you for choosing our hotel and we hope that your You will enjoy your stay here. "

It should be noted that there are quite a sufficient number of sockets in the room, besides, if necessary, you can also disconnect the TV and / or floor lamp. According to the configuration, the sockets there are the same as in Russia, but the voltage there is 230 V, which, however, is hardly critical for devices ground for 220 V.

BATHROOM IN THE ROOM

Plumbing serviceable and modern, no complaints there. The shower cabin there is only rather peculiarly made: there is no cabin as such, just part of the bathroom is fenced with two translucent and not very tight doors (therefore, water sometimes got outside the “cabin”), there is a drain hole in the floor, and a mixture with a shower is built into the wall. The mixture, by the way, is also peculiar there: the handle on the left regulates the intensity of the flow of water, and on the right - its temperature. It turns out just some kind of hybrid of two hotels: the Estonian Clarion Euroopa (there was a similar cabin) and the Latvian Monica Centrum (there was the same type of mix).

There is also a hair dryer, quite powerful, but without a "cold" button. There were 2 rather large bottles in the cockpit: one with shampoo, the other with balm conditioner. There were also bars of soap by the sink, but there was no shower gel at all. I had to use shampoo as such. There were 2 more bath towels and 2 face towels, but for some reason there were no foot towels. I had to adapt one of the face towels for these purposes a couple of times, after which they began to bring us a foot towel too. Understandable there, in general, the staff.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE LONGITY OF THE DAY IN STOCKHOLM

Throwing clothes in the room, we decided to take a walk around Stockholm, and then go somewhere to eat and drink beer. We even took the subway to one restaurant, where, judging by the reviews on the Internet, everything should be “cheap and cheerful”, but it was closed.


So, when we got to it, it was already getting dark on the street, despite the fact that it was not yet half past two. This, however, is understandable: Stockholm is still closer to the Arctic Circle than Moscow - about the same as St. Petersburg. By the way, if the weather in Stockholm is overcast, it seems that twilight is there from dawn to dusk, but if the weather is sunny, this impression does not arise. Well, by half past four in late December - early January, it gets dark almost completely. This should be taken into account when visiting the Skansen park, because many interesting things there are in the open air without any lighting, so taking pictures of them in the dark will be very problematic.

Since we broke off with the restaurant mentioned to the north, we decided to go to the first bar that came across, which, by the way, turned out to be quite good, in particular, in terms of silence, tranquility and prices. For example, a glass of beer "Wisby Sitting Bulldog" at 0.

4 liters there cost only 44 kroons (in the old town and in a bar near the station, this will cost already 66 - 76 kroons). This barchik is located at the intersection of Sveav? gen 120 and Surbrunnsgatan 46, but there are either 3 or 4 such bars in the city in different places. They took a beef steak (159), a plate of snacks (139), bread with garlic (39) and persuaded 6 glasses of Bulldog for this business. The whole thing cost us 641 crowns, including tips (40). By the way, something...

In some bars and restaurants, an unobtrusive scam for tips is practiced in relation to those who pay with a card. The waiter brings the client a mobile payment terminator, inserts the client's card there and invites the client to enter the amount himself. The client, not wanting to feel like the last bastard (we don’t take into account cases of frankly careless service), enters a slightly larger amount than the one indicated on the invoice.


There are not so many public toilets in Stockholm. I don’t know if they are in any shopping centers, because we simply didn’t go there. But where do people usually go in Stockholm in the winter? That's right: either to museums, or to pubs, or first to museums, and then to pubs. And there and there toilets, as a rule, are quite decent. For those who prefer to just walk along the street, in some places there are toilets of the “loaf” type, as in Riga, which I described in my report about Riga and Vilnius at the end of 2011. To whom to look for that report in scrap, let me remind you that on one side of the "loaf" there is a free toilet, but intended exclusively for men who do not think about big things. On the other side there is a toilet for everyone else, and the entrance there costs 5 kroons (you can drop 5 kroons one at a time or a whole piglet). We saw another round booth with sliding doors, but it did not work.

It will be problematic to slip into a restaurant solely for the purpose of dumping ballast, because there are waiters at the entrance who immediately approach the visitor with a question like “what would you like? ". In the same places where the traffic is high, the door to the toilet can be opened for customers, for example, by a bartender using a special button. And in my report on the Titanic, I wrote that in the local Temple Bar the toilet is closed with a combination lock, the code from which is communicated only to bar customers, as well as to all other citizens who do not mind 20 crowns.

ABOUT MUSEUM CHANGING ROOMS

Wardrobes in museums are self-service. At least, we did not see a single living cloakroom attendant in local museums. Things in the wardrobe can be hung simply on an unguarded hanger (I can’t say what the probability is that they will steal it, but many people use such hangers), or they can be put in a storage box with a key.

These boxes are similar to lockers in stores, only the doors are usually made of plexiglass, but sometimes they are also made of wood. Some museums also have tall drawers where clothes can even be hung on a hanger instead of being piled up. A coin is taken as collateral for the key: a crown, a piglet or a chirp - depending on the museum. If there are no coins, then you can exchange larger bills for them, as a rule, in local shops. It works like this: after the things are put into the closet, the coin falls into a special hole, the drawer is locked with a key, and the coin falls into a special pocket. If the key is not lost, then after opening the box, the coin is waiting for its owner in the same pocket. True, we came across one museum where a patch is provided not as a pledge, but as a payment for renting a box. This is the Tom Titus Museum, which will be discussed in detail south.

ABOUT BEER IN STOCKHOLM


I started something about beer, and then I was led somewhere in the wrong direction. Probably too much beer. : ) Well, don't worry, I'll tell you about the foamy drink, how could it be without it. Unfortunately, we did not find our beloved Franciscaner there, even in the restaurant of the same name. Or rather, we found it, but only bottled - in a specialized magician where Bukhara is sold (to the south I will tell about such stores in more detail). It cost there, by the way, relatively inexpensively - something like 20 crowns per bottle. Well, in local bars-restaurants they are friends mainly with English beer, there are many varieties of it (Guinness, Kilkenny, etc. ). Local Wisby beer is also popular there, of which there are many varieties (I give some of them):

- Wisby Pils (ordinary tests that do not deserve special attention);

- Wisby Kloster? l – unfiltered beer, ABV 5%;

- Wisby Weisse - also unfiltered, as the name suggests, 5.2% alcohol, quite tasty beer;

(followed by semi-dark varieties)

- Wisby Sleepy Bulldog Pale ale - an amateur taste, but I liked it; fortress 4.8%;

- Sitting Bulldog - the same as a sleepy bulldog, only stronger (6.4%);

- Brutal Bulldog - here the name speaks for itself: the fortress is such (8.4%) that you can simply go wild.

I have already given approximate prices for beer to the north, so I will not repeat myself. In general, you can always find a beer somewhere.

RESTAURANT AND PUB PICKWICK ON STR. DROTTNINGGATAN

Not a bad bar for those who like good beer and also have problems with foreign languages: there is a Russian waitress there who, according to her, has been living in Sweden for 11 years. As for beer, among other things, they sell Sneider Weisse (74 crowns for 0.5), which, in my opinion, is comparable to Franz, Kilkenny (71 for a pint) and Hoegarden (69, in my opinion, for 0.5). This bar is located at the address: Drottninggatan 6.

LASSE LUCIDOR RESTAURANT IN THE OLD TOWN

Deciding to have dinner that evening, we went to this restaurant. I ordered myself a portion of meatballs, which I had long wanted to try.


Yes, yes, the same ones that the dude with the propeller, who spoke in the voice of Sherlock Holmes, loved. By the way, in Swedish they are called ”k? ttbullar” (literally translated as “meat balls”), and in English - simply “meat balls”. They are served drenched in meat sauce with mashed potatoes, sliced ​ ​ pickles and lingonberries. Delicious things, I must say, especially if they are eaten with lingonberries. Well, potatoes can already be eaten with a cucumber. Such a pleasure cost 179 crowns. Not the lowest price, by the way. But it was the old city. My wife took a baked salmon fillet, which also turned out to be quite tasty. True, it cost already 259 crowns. Well, we also persuaded there a couple of mugs of strong beer for 68 kroons. By the way, the Swedes generally love strong beer. An unobtrusive tipping of the type described to the north is also present. This place is located on the island where the old city (Gamla Stan) is located. Exact address: J? rntorget 78.

Day 2, Saturday, 28.12. thirteen

Where does a tourist usually go first of all, waking up in the morning and barely leaving the room? That's right, for breakfast. Breakfast in this rooming house runs from 7 to 10:30. The restaurant hall where breakfast is served is quite large, but there are not always enough places, especially on December 31, and also on January 1-2, when tourists are brought there from various titans. On January 1, I remember, they even put additional tables outside the restaurant, and someone had to have breakfast right at the bar. On all other days, it was easier to find a place. Tables for two there, however, are mainly grouped in 2 - 3 pieces. , so sometimes, willy-nilly, you have to sit down with someone (or they will sit down with you). However, everything seems to be going quietly and peacefully, no scuffles were observed on this occasion.

Can't wait for the museums to open? There will be museums for you, they will be, as promised. And the first one will be...

SOLDAFON MUSEUM (ARM? MUSEUM)

We are not very lucky with the martinet museums: in Afishki it turned out to be closed, in Rizhka we were escorted out of there (see the relevant reports). In Stockholm, the situation turned out to be better, but even here it was not without a small trick: the entrance to the museum turned out to be free, but ...only until the end of December (and so 80 crowns). And the Stockholm cards, which we activated the day before by riding the metro a couple of times, were valid only until 14:0.1 January. In general, if this museum were also free in January (or the cards would have been valid a little longer), we would have postponed it to January, and it’ll work out like that.

This museum is quite large and interesting. There are all sorts of cannons, machine guns, armored cars, anti-aircraft guns, sabers, as well as firearms (pistols, muskets, rifles, machine guns, etc. from the Middle Ages to the present day).


Scenes of various punishments and executions for various petty offenses and serious crimes were also presented there. For example, a chela could be forced to walk around the city, holding two muskets by the muzzle with his hands, the butts of which lay on his shoulders. This punishment was not so painful as shameful, and applied to those warriors who were convicted of excessive consumption of Bukhara. There were also scenes of flogging and wheeling. And I remember reading once that for some misdeeds a person was put on a very uncomfortable wooden horse, after having previously tied his hands behind his back. So, there was also such a horse. Its inconvenience, as it turned out, was that the body of this horse was a beam with a triangular section, and the top of this triangle was directed upwards. Nearby stood a piece of such a beam on lower supports, so that everyone could experience for themselves what the punished experienced.

In general, I tell you guys, sitting on such a structure is really very, very uncomfortable. Everywhere there are scenes from army life. Pinned, for example, a stable. The fact is that it is rather dark, and when you enter it, it seems like a motionless horse suddenly hits a bucket standing behind it. Particularly impressionable can also remain stutterers from such a surprise (or some other surprise that can happen to them). Uniforms of various times are also present, including medieval “body armor”. Excuse me, I won’t give the exact addresses of the museums, because you can easily find any of them on the map, which in Stockholm are distributed for free at the information desks for tourists, as well as in some museums. By the way, on the reverse side of the same maps, all these museums are listed with not only exact addresses, but also what transport can be used to get to them.

MUSEUM OF MUSIC AND THEATER

This museum is located next to the Soldafon one, literally across the street from it. Well, since we are there, why not kill two birds with one stone? The entrance to this museum cost 70 crowns, but we, of course, went there using Stockholm maps, which the museum staff passed through a special computer (and did the same in all other museums and places of interest). Well, what can be said? The museum is cool, but intended more for children. There are various musical instruments, and most of them are varieties of drums. In some places, TVs hang on the walls, which teach, for example, drum lessons or various dances, say, flamenco. There was also such an exhibit as a table with various utensils attached to it, which can be used as percussion instruments.


And on one of the TVs they showed how a quintet of musicians went into the apartment of one of them and played a “symphony” in each of the rooms (room, kitchen, toilet), using all the available objects as musical instruments: forks , spoons, bowls (both human and cat), a food processor, a mixer, furniture doors, water taps and, of course, a toilet bowl. How could it be without him. As you understand, this was not a complete list of their "musical instruments". And all this with them, I must say, it turned out so smoothly! There was also such a device as a block with 8 levers and headphones attached to the wall. Levers were volume controls for compositions of various genres (from classical to hard rock and metal). There was a sign on the wall suggesting that you try mixing several compositions of different rhythms and see how the resulting rhythm affects you. Such is the cacophony.

It was also proposed to play the harp, like the Vietnamese from one of Laertsky's songs, drummers, electric guitar. And on one of the keyboard instruments, I even almost managed to play the Soviet anthem with one hand. "Almost" - because, firstly, the instrument was out of tune, and secondly, I no longer remember the corresponding notes very well. And on one wall hung an audio frequency switch and a sign explaining to everyone who is not friends with physics that the human ear is capable of perceiving a frequency from 63 to 20.000 Hz. Anything below 63 Hz is called infrasound, and anything above 20 kHz is called ultrasound. I put on my headphones and began to switch the frequency. At the same time, the set frequency was displayed on the display in the wall. In general, I stopped hearing sound when the indicator reached 14-something kHz. He suggested to his wife to conduct the same experiment - the same thing.

In general, either we have something wrong with our hearing (and to the same extent), or this bandura itself does not reproduce sounds with a frequency higher than those same 14 kHz with a penny. Part of the museum is devoted to the theater, but there was nothing particularly interesting there: masks, scenery, puppets, etc.

Leaving the museum, we decided to ask the employees if it would be possible to visit it again using the same card. When I asked them about it (in Swedish), one of them somehow hesitated, asked the other one again, and that other one answered me that this museum can be visited as many times as you like, the main thing is that the card is still valid. As it turned out later, this was misinformation, the instructions for the map did not lie.

ARDBEG EMBASSY BAR-RESTAURANT IN THE OLD TOWN

We had dinner that day at the ARDBEG EMBASSY bar-restaurant, which is located in the old town at the address: V? sterl? nggatan 68. By the way, its name translates roughly as "Great Western Street. " od

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Какой-то броневичок на гусеничном ходу
Та самая тарелка с фруктами, обнаруженная нами в день приезда.
Причудливый смесак, флаконы с шампунем и бальзаком-ополаскивателем.
Меню в номере с довольно демократичными ценами
Ночной Стокгольм.
Кабинка сортирная.
Drottginggatan ночью.
Ночной Стокгольм
Площадь, на которой круглосуточно запрещено употребление крепких напитков, вина и даже крепкого пива (таковым оно считается, по-моему, крепостью от 3%).
Ночной Стокгольм
Коридор ночлежки.
Узкая кровать, придвинутая к стене.
РЕСТОРАН LASSE LUCIDOR В СТАРОМ ГОРОДЕ
Холодильник-бар и халявно-кодовый сундук.
Чайник, 2 бутылочки винишка, 2 бокальчика, чай, кофе, молоко
Раковина и фен без
Сатнехника в номере
Вид из окна 1
Вид из окна 2
Ночной Стокгольм
Тефтельки, которые любил чувак с пропеллером (ресторан LASSE LUCIDOR).
Ночной Стокгольм
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Автомобильчик и зенитончик в солдафонском музее.
Какой-то броневичок на гусеничном ходу
Автомобильчик.
Пушка перед солдафонским музеем.
Филе лосося (ресторан LASSE LUCIDOR).
Церковь
Броневик перед солдафонским музеем.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Броневик перед солдафонским музеем.
Броневик перед солдафонским музеем.
Композиция в солдафонском музее.
Пулемет в солдафонском музее.
Куклы всякие все в том же музее музыки и театра.
Экономический музей
Артиллерийское орудие.
Восстановленное лицо чувака, который, предположительно, матросил на корабле
Тоже корабль
Артиллерийские орудия.
А вот и сам корабль
Снаряды для артиллерийский орудий.
Вот такая примерно жизнь кипела на кораблях XVII в.
Еще пушка.
Какие-то хреновины, найденные на корабле
Канат, найденный на этом же корабле.
Стокгольмский трамвай (sp?rvagn)
Водоемчик
Один из аквалангов, в которых
Уменьшенная копия корабля
Уменьшенная копия корабля
Композиция из музея корабля
Вот так выглядели средневековые корабли на срезе.
Свинина копченая в самом древнем ресторане DEN GYLDENE FREDEN
Внутри стокгольмской электрички
Две обезьянки с переплетенными хвостами
Обезьянка
Рыжая обезьянка
Игуана
Еще одна рыжая обезьянка.
Сурикат.
И еще сурикат.
Ленивец в мини-зоопарке парка Скансен
Девка, которая зачем-то полезла на стенку.
Сортирная табличка в музее Тома Тита, на которой представлены законы физики.
Сортирная табличка в музее Тома Тита, на которой представлены законы физики.
Кепки, забытые в музее Тома Тита, кажись, только в апреле 2013 г.
Шведские деликатесы в самом древнем ресторане DEN GYLDENE FREDEN
Музей Тома Тита
г. S?dert?lje - пригород Стокгольма
Тефтели в самом древнем ресторане DEN GYLDENE FREDEN
Типичная музейная раздевалка
Еще один сурикат.
Вид на море из старого города
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
Обзорная площадка Sky View
Центральный вокзал Стокгольма
Куклы всякие все в том же музее музыки и театра.
Новогодняя елка.
Еще одна кукла.
БАР-РЕСТОРАН ARDBEG EMBASSY, где я чуть не попал под обстрел.
Отель Nordic Sea 4*, где мы жили
Стокгольм в ясную погоду.
Стокгольм в ясную погоду.
Стокгольм в ясную погоду.
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
Караульный у королевского дворца.
Старый город
Еще один караульный.
Старый город
Толпа рядом с королевским дворцом.
Королевский дворец.
Старый город
Та самая толпа охламонов в папахах
Народ, шатающийся по старому городу.
Одна из улиц старого города.
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9
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
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8
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
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Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
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Рядом со старым городом.
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Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
Вид Стокгольма со Sky View.
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Рядом со старым городом.
А вот и сам старый город.
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Национальный музей
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