Trip to Sweden part 3

I had to do more than one post about my trip because I have a lot of to say and a lot of pictures. This is the third and final post (Finally. I've made these posts for almost a month now lol. If you missed the first 2 posts, please check them out first from here and here.

After coming back to the ship from streets of Stockholm, we went to our cabin. I was tired after all that walking. After a while, we went to shop more to a Tax Free. Before we went to Sweden, we exchanged some euros to swedish crowns. So first of all, I wanted to use my cash crowns in Sweden and after use the rest of my cash in the ship. I bought few stuffs from there. I for example bought for my dog, Bruno, a Silja Seal toy. I had to buy it from a Tax Free because I didn't find any animal shop in Sweden. It was a little frustration because I tried to find an animal shop from Sweden very hard. I'm anyways happy with Silja Seal toy because it's cute and Bruno likes it a lot.

At some point we went to ship's deck. We walked around the entire ship. I can still feel the wind from there lol. The view was anyways beautiful.

We went for a while back to our cabin. There we just hanged out, drunk and chilled out while we played cards. At 7.30pm Gengis Van Gool had his amazing aerial acrobatics show Wheel of Death once again. We wanted to go to see that. At this time though, we were watching it from the other side which was a good variation.

The ship was in Mariehamn, Åland in the midnight. We went to watch it and get some pictures to the ship's deck. I was freezing but the view was really beautiful lol.



Our trip was almost over, so we wanted to go to party more. First of all, we went to that same bar where we were previously, Atlantis Palace. There was performing a band called Northern Lights. They presented some Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish hit songs along the years. We just listened their songs and chilled for a while. My friends even tried to dance little bit lol.

At some point we decided to go to check out one other bar also. It was called New York Club & Lounge. I liked it more. There was a lot of young people and the music was really loud. At some point I though that I'm losing my sight lol. We had a lot of fun and we danced like there is no tomorrow lol. We went back to our cabin at about 4.00am.

I couldn't sleep my beauty sleep at all in this trip lol. I was just able to sleep few hours. In the morning I was little tired but happy because I was finally able to go home and sleep more.

We arrived to Helsinki at 10.30am. My friends dad was picking us up from the port.

After all our little trip went so well. I want to go to Sweden again and be there longer. I also want to see my friends and family from there. Maybe that will happen in the short-term future, who knows. 

- Love, RN

Trip to Sweden part 2

I had to do more than one post about my trip because I have a lot of to say and a lot of pictures. This is the second post. If you missed the first one, please check it out first from here.



I didn't sleep well in the whole night. I still wasn't sleepy in a whole day which was a great thing. At some point in Stockholm I started to be little bit tired. We had a early waking-up because our breakfast was at 7.00am. There was available all kind of breakfast foods, for example eggs, bacon, bread, sausages, cereals, fresh fruits and all kind of different drinks. After eating we went back to our cabin to get ready. The ship came to port of Stockholm at 10.00am. We had to be back in the ship at 4.15pm.

The weather was actually pretty nice in Stockholm. We were prepared to a normal rain. We even had many umbrellas with us. But there was just a little drizzle all the time. It wasn't as bad as it could be which was really nice.

We had already thought about some places where we want to go and see. My friend also had an "old school" map where we were able to watch some subway stations and walking trails. First of all we walked to subway station which was quite close to the ship port. Near in the subway was two guys who wanted to ask some directions from us. They thought that we were local swedish people lol. First of all we went to Gamla Stan. 

From the subway station we had to walk little bit. I love those little swedish streets. We walked to a awesome shop called Science Fiction Bokhandeln AB. My friend like to read a lot of books, especially manga books. She had already looked up some informations about this awesome shop. That was the first shop where we came. We spent there a little (not that little lol) while. I absolutely loved all the little figures and stuff which there was. I only bought from there though a little Deadpool keychain. 

Randomly after shopping in the science fiction shop, we decided to visit in the Stockholm Palace (The Royal Palace) because it's a very known attraction. At first we didn't know why there was a lot of nicely dressed guards standing in front of the royal palace as well as a lot of polices. One street was closed too. We were really curious about what is going on there, so we decided to stand there for a while and wait if something will happen. 

The time was a little more than 12.00 in the afternoon. At first few police cars came. Then after police cars there was at least 50 riding polices. It was really cool. I still didn't know what is going on so I asked from a american couple from Ohio if they know something about this situation. I found out that the Canadian Prime Minister came to visit the royal couple and Sweden. The royal couple (King and Queen) had their own royal carriages. The queen came first, then the King and then the Canadian Prime Minister. It was really cool to see that all. I'm really glad because we decided to wait and see what's going on. It was worth it.

After seeing that all, we wanted to shop more. From Gamla Stan we walked to Norrmalm. There is a lot of shops and restaurants. While we were walking there, the weather became more drizzle.

At some point I bought really nice blue coloured headphones from a random small electronics shop. I don't remember it's name anymore. We found this really big, fancy and beautiful shopping center called NK, Nordiska Kompaniet. Everything was too expensive to our budget so we didn't buy anything.  

H&M is originally a swedish shop. So we absolutely had to shop in there too. I bought from there a cream lipstick from NYX Liquid Suede in a shade of LSCL 09, tea & cookies. I love this shade a lot. The tube of it, it's bigger than the previous ones.

My swedish friend recommended to me a Max Hamburgare fast food place so we had to check it out. I ordered a normal cheese burger meal with of course Coca-Cola. It was very cheap and delicious. Max Hamburgare is little bit like a Mcdonald's but with bigger meals lol. Next time when I'm going to Sweden I have to eat there again. 

After eating we went to some normal little food shops to buy something little. I bought some candy and water to home and for my little brother something also. When we were done with shops, we went to buy new subway tickets so we can go back to the ship. 

There was some other places too, like few museums where we wanted to go but there wasn't enough time for them. They was anyways little bit further away from the Stockholms ship port so we decided to not go there. 

We arrived to the port of Stockholm at about 3.00pm. So in the ship we were well in advance, one hour before we had to be there. The ship began to go back to Helsinki, Finland at 5.00pm. 

Once again this post will continue in the next, final post... Stay tuned for that. 

- Love, RN

Trip to Sweden part 1

I've been sick lately so I haven't been posting anything in a while but now I'm back. On February 19th to 21st in 2017 I was in a cruise to Sweden in Silja Serenade with my 2 best girl friends. I have never been in Sweden or in a cruise so this was my very first time.

The ship to Sweden left at 5.00pm. My friend and her father was picking me up from our yard on the afternoon. We wanted to be in Helsinki well in advance so we have enough time to buy some snacks to the ship. First we went to a normal food shop where I bought some bananas, cookies and water. After that we went to MacDonalds. We arrived to self-check-in seasonably. There was a lot of people and I didn't think earlier that there could be that full and crowded.

We made it to the ship from the check-in. When we arrived to the ship, the ship's captain welcomed us. In the Promenade floor there was playing right away a trio band called Ree Train. In the ship we had a small cabin. It was clean and very intimate. There was beds for four, a television, a table, a window to outside and a very small bathroom and shower place. I suffer sometimes from a small panic attack in small places. At some point I was about to have one because our cabin was that small lol.

After being for few hours in the cabin we went to check out ship's stores. I foud from there few nice things but almost everything was very expensive and I didn't want to buy anything. Instead in Taxfree for example cigarrettes, snuff and alcohol was very cheap and I bought them from there as souvenirs to my family. After shopping we went back to our cabin to chill and get ready for the night. We also played with cards.

The main performer of the evening was at 7.30pm. It was an aerial acrobatics show Wheel of Death from a Swiss Gengis Van Gool. It was very cool and exciting. First of all he was walking inside of the big weel. Then after he jumped into the innel of the weel. He took his jacket and tie off and played with them. Then he took his skipping rope from his back pocket and started to jump with it while the weel was rotating. I was little bit scared for him lol.

After the dangerous show we went to a bar called Atlantis Palace. There was going on a Grand Opening show. We listened that while we drank one drinks. After that we went to the Casino and tried few games. No-one won anything though.

About in the midnight we went back to our cabin's beds to sleep because we had a pretty early wake-up in the next morning in Sweden.

This post will continue in the next post... Stay tuned for that.

- Love, RN