back from stockholm

Hello!

It's been two days since I've been back from my Stockholm trip and I'm just starting to have some time to write. Things will be very busy for me this week considering that I have to prepare two presentations for ISHPC 2005. We'll be leaving next Friday, but this time it will be a mega-trip to Kansai International (near Osaka). But more on this in a different post.

Stockholm is a beautiful city. I hope to post some pictures later. A great help to my appreciation of the city has been the fact that we got seven days in a row with good weather. That's actually a pretty distorted image of the city but for one I welcome these sort of distortions. Stockholm is very clean and beautiful, and beautiful are swedish ladies :) (footnote: important contribution to male appreciation of cities) To my surprise, there were many many people on the streets. It turns out they have such bad weather that when the good wheather comes everyone wants to go out and enjoy it. I don't want to wonder how gamlastan will look in the winter...

Everything went smoothly, except we should have taken a look at the airport before buying the ticket. stockholm-skavsta, like barcelona-girona, is about an hour away from the main city. Of course there are busses, but things start to get ugly when you acknowledge that your return trip is at 7:00am and you will have to take the 3:45h bus. And it gets worse when you are informed at 0:00am that the bus terminal is going to close and the railway terminal closes at 1:00am. So we were at Stockholm, 1:00am in the morning just walking around normalm until we ended at some place that served free american coffee (well, I guess it was not completely free but we made some mistake and got it free :)

But other than that, and the fact that my credit card was exhausted the day we arrived due to some calculus error I committed, the rest was ok. If you're lucky I will post some pictures from the trip, but now I want to concentrate on a different topic. See next post!

izzu