Day 42: A marathon date in Sthlm

It’s true… ladies we need to be straight forward and to the point with our partners if we want them to give us what we want. NO subtle hints. It will never work. Just say what you want, because your hints will never take a very looooooong time to piece together. Take my situation as a case study:

One thing I learned is that my meatball HAS actually been paying attention to what I say! He really delivered for my birthday and continued my birthday celebration this past weekend with a marathon date in the city.

Marathon date – a date that lasted many hours and includes many different activities!

The sweet thing about this day was each activity was something I really enjoy or have great interest in!

1) I love brunch! I tell my meatball about brunch with friends and also suggest that we should go sometime. He took note, and naturally this was our first stop! Our date started at the Stallmästaregården Hotel & Restaurang

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Girls just wanna have brunch!

Love it here!
Then we were in walking distance to our next destination – someone is good with logistics!

2) I had previously asked about the butterfly garden in the city (Fjärilshuset Haga Trädgård), and someone’s swede smarts remembered, making it our next stop! 20140209-213725.jpg Trying going on a weekday if possible as the weekend draws family and the parking lot gets full 20140209-220735.jpg

3) Dinner at a cozy Italian resto called Linguini! Tasty food, comforting wine and a great date in candlelight.

4) When I had first researched things to do in the city, one of the places I absolutely wanted to experience was the Absolut Ice Bar located in the city center. I had brought up the bar again, suggesting we should go sometime and SURPRISE! he already arranged our reservation!

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Watch your back and don’t get stuck on the ice wall!

I actually learned about this bar from the Amazing Race… good job marketing!

5) We were feeling lucky so our last stop was the Cosmopol casino nearby the bar – again impressive planning! There’s no better way to end the night out than tripling your money! Funny thing is that there’s a 30 kr cover charge for the casinos here… could be a karma thing?

Hopefully this will help your dating plans in Stockholm or just some general things to do! I love this city!

Day 38: Beardlings – swedish ones!

Today I discovered the greatest instagram account: @swedishbeards

If you like any following then, this is for you! Either way, you should just take a look!

  • BEARDS
  • Swedish men or just men in general
  • Men with beards aka beardlings (shoutout to Ais)
  • Hipsters
  • Beards that have been filtered
  • Lumberjacks
  • Badass beards
  • A manly beard
  • Santa Claus

Alright just view the page already: http://instagram.com/swedishbeards

Or if you don’t like beards, you can view my instagram: http://instagram.com/jocie_

Signing out with my two favourite beards! One of these is not Swedish though … heh heh!

Emil Kåberg of Örebro HK. Best hockey beard EVER! Photo from http://www.aftonbladet.se

James Harden and his badass beard! FEAR THE BEARD. Photo from http://bustasports.com

Embrace the beardlings.

Day 35: Brunch buddies & Mr. Erwitt

It’s always nice to meet more people and make more friends!

On Saturday I decided to go out for a brunch meet up with Miss R and met some new ladies. Brunch was organized through another meet up event at the Fotografiska gallery along the water at Slussen.

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The food was delicious and I would recommend it especially if say your parents are in town.
There was even a perfectly cooked egg that supposedly took over an hour to cook – yes it was perfect! It’s a bit of a splurge but the price also includes the galleries.
The only downside is that there’s a time limit to the seating – I think 2pm?

The last gallery was from Elliot Erwitt! The short film was quite comical from him and each of his ironic photos evoked different emotions and discussion.
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It was the perfect setting for blind date brunching with ladies of Stockholm! Looking forward to the next one 🙂