Sweden Day 14 & 15

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th

Stockholm.

Jesus christ! What a weekend....

I have never had such a stressful weekend. Getting to Stockholm everything was fine, a few delays on the train but nothing major. Absolutely freezing, around -20 when we got there, walked for 20 minutes to the hostel, booked in, put the bedding on our beds. The 5 of us were in a 14 bed room. Originally we went to the furthest end of the room and made our beds and everything there, we then decided if we would be coming in drunk early in the morning we would be better by the door so we ended up switching all the beds. We then went for a wander round the shops, alot of which are the same as England anyway but the plaza was really nice. We had tea, Mcdonalds for Joel and Dale, a hotdog for me and meatballs and mash for Tom. Josh didn't have any as we couldn't find a take out pizza place.

Back to the hostel and we got ready to go out, borrowed a pack of cards from reception and played some cards games whilst drinking more jaegarmeister (I didn't have any after Wednesday night!). We headed out around 11 after struggling to get a taxi to fit us all, although when we did 4 of us sat on 3 seats anyway. Up to Spy Bar, the bouncer checked our ids, obviously only looked at the years as he thought we were all 19 and was letting us in until he saw joshs and even though he thought he was 18 he stopped us going in as it was meant to be 21, so he said 19 would of been okay as it was quiet but 18 was pushing it. We then tried a few more clubs, most of which were 23 to get in. After walking around for ages we got another taxi back to Gamla Stan ( the island our hostel was on) as it was meant to be a student area so the age would be 18 to get in. This wasn't the case though so again we got turned down by a few places. Finally we had to send Josh back to the hostel which was ashame but we couldn't stay outside any longer as it was that cold. The pubs we went into though none of them had a dancefloor which is really all we wanted. At around 2 we gave up and ran back to the hostel. Josh was asleep by then. The rest of us went down to the kitchen and cooked up some pasta. The kitchen was a state though left by other people staying there.

Went to bed, stayed up til back of 4 chatting, up at 8 to leave. Got to the station for back of 9, train was due at 9.45 but it was cancelled. We got rebooked on to the 13.45 train. (see blog two)