Stockholm- part 3/ del 3

So the Pride Week was over and the flags are changing again. Yes the rainbow flags where everywhere and everywhere we were, we could follow the pride, the discussion, the shows, the dance, the earnest parts and so on... 
Did I mention the Pride Parade? 
After the tradional breackfast...
It was on saturday. Best weather you can wish, so sunny and hot and well you really missed the trees on the streets, although Stockholm is a very green town, but has not that much trees in the streets actually, like Berlin. I and some of my friends got sunburned... in SWEDEN!
The Parade was big, I mean 60.000 people where on the streets and 600.000 watched it live and shared the passion, the love and applause. Everyone seems to be part of it and you know, Stockholm self the real town has just 800.000 people livingin it. 
I also meet a friend from Berlin who lives in Frankfurt now. He had also the same name like the friend I was living at. What a world, what a life!
Anyway- you could see teens and policeman and the traffic industry and also the moms and dads of homosexuals on the parade, you could see those many many rainbow families- there were so much of them that no one can say after seeing them, they don't exist and are just a number of fools. You saw the handicapped and all where so happy and earnest in the same time, under a very loving sun and by the way there is a church in Sweden who prays every year for rain on the parade, but well.. DON'T RAIN ON MY PARADE and if there will be... We simply don't care! We are there!

proud parents...

Jonas Gardel... and I don't remember his name from TV... but watch out for the book from Jonas

Surrogacy.... fight for your right for....

Hungry? Yes after seeing all this, having our drinks and meeting friends and getting the sun into our blood. We went to eat at a restaurant. It's not cheap in Stockholm... very much more like it is in London, you pay a fortune for food, but it tasted good and we had fun. So much fun. We where talking about the challange in life but you know... letting them getting down is less an option for .. you know.. everyone... should never be an option... I mean.. make something of it, do what you like and love, otherwise it would be a wast of time...!
Then we wanted to go to the Museum to see the clothes of Jean Paul Gaultier, but it was too late, so change of plans and we went on just to take a walk and eat and drink coffee in a.. well, coffee.
What a day and I hope you enjoy the pics from it.
Love me some Stockholm and in my heart there it is... the song of this town.. which is actually well known in Sweden. 
"Stockholm i mitt hjärta, låt mig besjunga dig nu.... genom Mällarens kärlek till havet, ...en blandning av sött och salt..."
 
 
LOVE & LIGHT
 

Stockholm- part 1

And so it is summer again and after I had been not over a several years of being there, my visit in Stockholm again. 
This time, again, I lived at a friends home and greatful as I am, I enjoyed the stay there. I had the luck to get to know this town from another side this time again. Which is always something good when it is about places you are not living at. 
So I will write about this 8 days in chapters, as you may call it. Not exactly day by day but anyway... 
Let's start with the day, when I was leaving Berlin as it became much warmer again. Usually i don't sleep much the night before I travel but I get better with each time and so I slept well, although I had to went up very early.
So from a sunny morning I arrived att a sunny place called Stockholm Arlanda airport. 
Though when we where flying over Stockholm itself I looked out of the window and enjoyed the view on the "Gamle stan" part of Stockholm, the centre, the oldes part, the part where the castle is and the ocean meets the "beach" the harbour. For a moment I looked around then in the airplane to see who is also watching the town and the shadow the plane is making but seems I was the only one who actually saw down. Later, like 5 minutes before landing they all looked out for the houses, the streets and the lakes and saw just wood, gras, fields... 
Well, I though that's bad luck. Too late guys.
Then I took the train to meet my friend. We finally came together in the centre of the town around lunch time. Thancks to mobiles it is so easy to catch up and while waiting till he arrived with the underground I bought my ticket card and got some money. Thanxs to my swedish, this was easy done. 
Then of course we went home to leave the little baggage I had. And like most times in my life when I travel... it is really not much I take with me. 
And there in Sweden it was like being home again. You know, traveling from home to home it is for me since a several years. 
Sunny wheather after rainy days before, we called a number of frineds to make a picnic in one of the parks in Stockholm, to be more correct, we went to a park next to the Mällaren- thats a part of the sea around this town. So take a map and find out. 
We became a bunch of different people who had a very good time eating, chatting and getting to know each other, and yes like a real swedish live, the rain came back for a while, so we rushed under the big tree, eating and chatting there and when the rain became stronger, we just picked up our umberellas and went on. Very much like in an Jane Austen Film/ book. Standing, sitting, chatting, laughing, smiling, eating, drinking and being in the nature. 
And nature came to us. Literally the birds -there where so near. But everyting must come to an end and we where freezing a bit too, cos rain, after sunshine, after rain and more sunshine and rain, we became quite a rainy cloud by ourself. So we decided to went to the Mällaren Pavillion, where people can eat and listen to music and as it was, we had PRIDE WEEK and so a queer Klezmer Band was playing and we had our very swedish coffe and cakes and so much fun, while the sun went down in such beautiful colors. 
Very late then we drove home and that was one of the best starts for a holliday I had and much because I speak quite good Swedish- so they say, but we had talkings in english, german and russian too. 

going down from the airport to...

the train, which took me to Scokholm

in Sweden the picnic goes on, even if it rains

view from the Mällaren Pavillion

looking to the centrum, being near to it, just about 15 min from the house and the wood is already around...

 ...........................LOVE & LIGHT..........................