Weekend in Stockholm

Mattias and I are rounding out our trip to Stockholm this weekend without the girls who are with Farmor. We are here for part business, mostly leisure. Mattias and I took off to attend a special event for Astrid Sylwan, an up and coming artist (but pretty well established) who has received a significant stipend to travel to New York City for a month to meet other artists and absorb the culture for inspiration. Or at least that's what I think you'd do with a stipend! The stipend was from Carl-Axel's foundation and was presented by Carl-Axel and the artist, Peter Dahl. Peter is a modern day Picasso (literally), and between he and Astrid, it made for an interesting evening to be surrounded by such talent!
Friday and Saturday, Mattias and I had free days. We are staying at Carl-Axel's pied a terre overlooking the city. We got to sleep in and take a coffee and late breakfast in the apartment. On Friday we spent time exploring Södermalm neighborhood where the apartment is located then to dinner at Carl-Axel and Åsa's house some blocks away. We ended the evening by going to a great little British Pub just a couple blocks the opposite direction of the apartment. We thought we got a good bargain on a pint of lager for a little over $10.00 a pint! Saturday, today, we got up and took to the town by foot. Our first destination was Svensk Tenn and it took some time to wind our way out of Soder, through Gamla Stan, past the royal palace and up and down the path by the water. It was a busy shopping day in Stockholm and as suspected, Svensk Tenn was packed with visitors fawning over the ever lovely Josef Frank designs. We had a great time window shopping and rested our legs by having a delicious Lebanese lunch. We took the Tunnelbana back to the apartment and picked up Carl-Axel to go to a building supply store that had a number of kitchen and bathroom exhibits for inspiration. Later in the evening we walked back to CA's house and had dinner, this time joined by Ulla-Britt.
Sunday we'll head toward home but first stop and visit a Herrgård that Mattias' Uncle is interested in purchasing. They want our opinion on the property so we are happy to help out. After, we'll continue driving and try to visit Mattias' Mormor, (Grandmother), and have a coffee and some treats perhaps.
This week Mattias will be back in Uppsala for work and I will have child duty alone for a couple of days plus back to school on Monday for myself.

More later,
Carrie