Pictures from Sweden

It’s been five months already that I am in sunny Sweden, as you all know, and I’ve got plenty of impressions.

There was one thing that stroke my eye immediately – of course it was a lot of man-like women on the streets. I mean it, I’m not kidding – the percentage is extremely high in Sweden. And, besides, Swedes use the light version of their flag pretty often – two stripes, blue at the top, and yellow at the bottom. It reminds you of something, doesn’t it?

I saw couple of incredibly striking episodes – I wish I had a photo camera there! One of them was like that. A bus is driving a Stockholm street. A plain bus, of a blue colour, with two sections. Nothing special at the first sight. BUT! There’s an odour around it. And the odour is bloody familiar, but a little rare – you don’t smell it often, especially in Scandinavia. It reminds me of something, but what exactly it reminds is covered with a mist… And the bus turns to another street, and I read on the left side of it: “works on the ethanol”! And the smell – you won’t believe me – the smell of wash, a usual potato wash, of which the home-brew vodka is made at the end!

Another impressive episode. Guess, what is the maximum number of policemen I’ve seen in Sweden at a time? No, it’s not one, or two, but five! Where was it? At the building of Migrationsverket –migration ministry of Sweden. What did these 5 policemen do there, you’ll going to ask. It’s simple: there was around 50 guys from Ethiopia, yelling that Swedes had to acknowledge Ethiopia the country where military operations are now. After that the Ethiopians will get the favourable procedure of becoming the resident of Sweden. Well, that was interesting!

One more episode is a bit intimate. One can buy condoms in Sweden only in the drug stores! And those drug stores, I should say, work even worse than Systembolaget (it’s where the buzz is): many of them are closed on Saturdays, and even on weekdays they work from 10 to 8 – that’s all! All in all, you can get drunk without thinking what day is it today – you just go to the nearest pub, but as for the condoms there’s a real mess! You always have to remember the schedule. One seems to work on Saturdays till 6 but is closed on Sundays, but another maybe works till 4, but is opened on Sundays… Horrible!

So I finish my post on this great atmosphere. Good luck and be healthy!