OK snapshot: Bolaget (The Company)

En fredag utanför Systembolaget :)

[A friday outside the liquor store]

Snapshot from Stockholm, Sweden.

OK snapshot: Exclusive taste

Björnarna har blivit finsmakare.

(The bears have become gourmets. [Björnmat = bear food])

Seen in Stockholm, Sweden.

OK snapshot: Napp

Drag för näbbgädda? {fishing tool for 'untranslatable Swedish species '?}

Seen in Stockholm, of course.

OK snapshot: Roadtrip 100 years ago

This article is featured in The Swedish Tourist Association's (STF's) 1912 book:

Two Days in An Automobil, on the old royal highway Stockholm-southwards, by Gunnar Anderson.

He describes a roadtrip starting on June 20 (1912, presumably), with not the best weather, "close doors and security hooks, put on rainhats and raincapes, because it is only +9 degrees C, and now we will speed off".

Maybe someone can identify the car on the photo?

{from a book found at a fleamarket in Stockholm}

OK snapshot food review: Pizza Anonymous

[LS is blogging this restaurant report on behalf of OK, just to make you all confused. A while ago, OK found this note below stuck to a door, without a sign, but somehow indicating that there probably was a pizza place behind that door. Now the place has been visited. So, here is OK's snapshot report from the anonymous pizza place in Stockholm, Sweden.]

Menu (in Swedish. tomat = tomato; oliver = olives; skinka = ham; surkål = sauerkraut; champinjoner = mushrooms; sardeller = anchovy; aubergine = eggplant; lufttorkad = airdried; ask about the rest in the comments if you want to know more)

So JU and I went to that nameless pizzeria with the strange sign tonight, and it was very good. Unfortunately they were out of the sauerkraut and timmerman sausage-pizza, so I ended up with the buffalo mozzarella and dried entrecôte pizza.

 JU had the buffalo mozzarella, bayonne ham and mushroom pizza. 

JU also had the dessert pizza with apples, jam and stuff... You can have a three course meal there, all pizzas!

 

 Some say that you can judge a place by their bathroom. I'm not sure what this tells you...hehe. 

Another interior pic from the bathroom. Nice lightning.

So all in all, I'll say it was an e on a scale to pi. 

OK snapshot: Skandinaviska (Scandinavian)

Nu med egna vokaler...
a new language, Scandinavian, now with its own vowels? The umlaut o got
both dots (from Swedish and Finnish), and a slash (from Danish and
Norwegian). Well, whatever works, right?
What is in the bag? Strawberry-flavored candy that looks like long string.

OK snapshot: Ordföljd (word order)

Den hårfina men betydande skillnaden mellan "endast tillsatt" och "tillsatt endast"... ;)

English explanation:
Supermarket sign for dried fruit ('torkad frukt') with the addition 'Endast tillsatt socker' = only added sugar. I bet it should have been 'Endast socker tillsatt' = only sugar added. Sometimes the best order of words is a bit hard to figure out!

OK snapshot: Meddelanden från andra sidan... (Messages from the other side)

...av kontorsfönstret mot gatan. :)
...from the office by the street. [Seen in Stockholm, Sweden]

What is says? - oh!

Don't despair nightinggale!

Out of the deep it grows

We are disguised.

And the night streams

from east to west with

the speed of the moon.

OK snapshot: Money CAN buy happiness (lycka)!

1 hour, only 200 SEK! ;)
(LS added: And, comes with nuns! Seen in Stockholm)

OK snapshot: Fall flurry

"If I only had more speed..."
(from Stockholm, Sweden)

OK snapshot: Stockholms hamnar... (Stockholm's harbor....)

...jumps the shark.

(LS comment: I guess they mean mind the gap, but I didn't get that at first :)

OK snapshot: Small window of opportunity

Just another brick in the wall.

OK snapshot: Östermalmsmeny

För lilla Fido, hundmeny på Östermalmshallen.
For the little dogs, a menu at the posh Östermalmshallen market in central Stockholm.

Menu translation:
Mager falukorv med mammas köttbullar = lean Falu sausage with Mom's meat balls
Strimlad flaskfile å kycklingfile = Cut up pork tenderloin and chicken tenderloin
Ungnötslever = Calf liver
Mix - MEZA tallrik = mixed plate

Correction and update - this was actually at Djurgården, not Östermalmshalle.  I stand corrected. Still posh, at least parts of it.  And more appropriate,  Djurgården means the Animal Farm.  Really.

Summer in northern Sweden (from EH)

Fröå mine, a coppermine in Åre, Sweden. In the bakery they make
flatbread in a woodfired oven. 'Rallarros' (fire weed) is the flower in
the foreground.

Happy Birthday, OK!

We celebrate with a photo of your own, about taking it easy and not stress to much in life. There is something really good about snail pace sometimes....

JU snapshot: H20 melon

In Swedish stores, the managers assume that the customers know basic
chemistry. Photo by JU in Stockholm.

OK snapshot: Gatukonst (street art)

Seen in Stockholm, Sweden.
LS comment: Nice oil painting!

OK Snapshot: Förv(regn)d

Man kan lätt få en skev världsbild när regnet står som spön i
backen. Eller piskefløde som dansken säger... ;)

(So-so translation: You can easily get a distorted world view when it
rains like 'treelets in the soil'. Or 'whip flow', as the Dane would say.)

OK snapshot: Bed, bath and beyond

OK's soap holder, can you tell what it is? (answer in the comments)

OK snapshot: Dagens frukost (today's breakfast)

Frukost à la Philip von Schantz (some of his images here).  (This one by OK, with lingonberries.)