Sweden - Crayfish, Game of Thrones and hangovers

First Swedish blog!

Its been a really fun, but full on couple of days :)  We were up at 4am on Thursday to fly over to Stockholm from Gatwick.  On landing, Ian and I were picked up by Anki and headed straight off to a seaport called Vaxholl.  Burger and a beer by the ships - all for research of course.  We then went to an old fort on an island which protected Stockholms waterways.  Joking aside, this was all really good for my book.  Its set in a port town, so Stockholm and the surrounding places are perfect.  That evening we had a few drinks whilst going through and fine tuning what I had written. We only managed 4 pages :S

On Friday we were up early again, and spent the day in Stockholm. We first visited a military history museum under the king's palace. This is where we saw costumes from the tv series Game of Thrones. Really interesting. A lot of the costume designs had been based on Scandinavian clothes from varies centuries, so the exhibition showed the actual ones from the tv series against historic garb.

This is one of Cersei's dresses

Joffrey

Me lol

Tyrion's black water armour

Anyways, I'll post more after this blog :)  that afternoon we visited a zoo - I kinda love zoo's.  And spent a really nice afternoon out in the sunshine. 

In the evening we again went through my novel, this time reaching the end of chapter 3! Progress.  Actually I'm really appreciative of Anki and Ian spending time helping me. It's all fine tuning on what I've already written, ironing out where sentences don't flow! and adding a bit more detail when it's needed. They are both really getting into the story :) thanks guys

The next morning was Anki's birthday.  We were having a crayfish party in the afternoon/evening, but in the morning Anki wanted to ho through more chapters :)) we managed to finish on chapter 8, and really rolling. That actually took most of the morning and into the afternoon, skipping lunch. The food here is amazing, and I was looking forward to the meal later. 

Wow, what party!  The swedes went full on Viking, and well I can't go into all the details, but there was a lot of drink, laughter,bashing of heads, falling down, and other stuff. At 1am ish everyone crashed.  I'm writing this Sunday afternoon whilst everyone else is asleep :) when they wake up it'll be more reading from my book. 

I'll try to post another blog before Tuesday when we fly home late, and some pictures. 

Hope you are all well and missing me :)

Matt