Things I learned in Stockholm

People drink a lot of coffee and there are a lot of good coffee shops.

7-11 stores are everywhere.  They sell bus tickets, postage stamps and bulk candy.

7-11 on the street where we were staying

There really are Swedish fish candies in Sweden, but they are just called pastellfiskar (pastel fish).

It’s not the pickling of pickled herring that I object to, it’s the herring.

Temperature is relative.  People were dressed in shorts and tank tops in Stockholm’s 70-degree weather and in jeans and long-sleeved shirts in Paris’s 99-degree weather.

As delicious as lingonsylt (lingonberry jam) is, rårörda lingon (fresh lingonberries stirred with a little sugar) is even better.

Everyone speaks English beautifully.  I know about 100 words of Swedish, but the only ones I used were hej and tack (hello and thank you). On the other hand, J frequently spoke Swedish with people and I found it highly entertaining to see him speaking Swedish with people other than his family.