Day 108: Flappy Stockholmers

Sorry for the low quality pic but I was trying to take it without the woman seeing me photographing her shoes. Look at her back foot. See the boot isn't zipped closed?

There's a weird trend in Stockholm right now where people don't do up their boots. They just leave them open, flapping around. I wouldn't have noticed it, but one of my students at school had her shoes wide open and I pointed it out to her. She said "yes it's on purpose". I asked why, she said "I don't know, to express my individuality?" Unfortunately it's not so individual.

I bet this stupid trend dies a death when the snow comes.

Day 100: How you know Christmas is coming

The vending machines here are seasonal. They've started selling julmust now, a christmas special drink which is suspiciously similar to påskmust, the easter seasonal drink...

Day 95: Strange Public Art 3

Charlie Chaplin on a Windmill? Why not.

Day 92: Cynical advertising

Article: Bromma Airport closed after accident

Advert: Switch to Bromma!

Day 91: Between a rock and, er, another rock

 I don't envy Swedish builders.

To build foundations they have to drill down into endless hard rock, insert TNT into the gap and then blow apart the stone.

Then, they have to clear away all the rubble and repeat over and over again until the area is clear. This seems to me a slow and meticulous process (although, ok, they get to use TNT which might alleviate the repetitiveness somewhat)

There isn't much of this going on in London, where the ground is much softer and if we used TNT it would just cause mud and clay to splat all over the place. Fun perhaps but not productive.

Day 83: Informative street signs

Okay so it's, sadly, not a real street sign. It's next to the fictitious house of the Swedish story character Pelle Svanslös.

Still cute though!