Today was food tour day! I love a great food tours and what better way to learn the city than a 4 hour walking tour with frequent stops for food?!
How about one where you don't find out you are allergic to reindeer? I could have also been the moose, hard to tell. I'm fine (really Mom, I am fine) because of some quick thinking from Anna and our tour guide running for some Benadryl. It also meant we were no longer going for the reindeer dinner we had planned later that night.
The tour was great, we tried:
- Swedish cheese, Cured meats and breakfast beer,
- Swedish meatballs with potatoes and lingonberry sauce,
- Fish plate with smoked salmon, picked herring, and shrimp salad,
- Jams & chocolates,
- Swedish peppermint candy, and
- Last stop was Fika which is really coffee and pastry, in this case a cinnamon bun.
My favourite was probably the Swedish meatballs, so tasty and the lingonberry sauce was INSANELY good.... I don't know what they sell at IKEA because it didn't taste like that! SPOILER ALERT - Anna and I are thinking about putting lingonberry inside this year's Christmas chocolates.
Besides, obviously, not being a fan of the cured meats, the pastry wasn't as good as the one I had for breakfast so that stop was a bit of disappointment... but the coffee gave us the shot of energy to continue on a mission to see as many museums as possible in the time period remaining before they closed.
We took the ferry to the island and saw the Vasa museum and the amazing ship. We opted for the free english tour and was subjected to the slowest talking tour guide ever that took the time to explain what cousins where, you know, just in case all the English speakers in the audience didn't understand the very detailed explanation of what an uncle's son is. Luckily it didn't take away from the ship and the rest of the museum we mostly sped through after we bailed on the tour.
From there we went to the Spirit museum which was a weirdly trippy museum full of odd English translations. They even had a hangover room where you could experience the sounds and feeling of a hangover without having one (which totally begs the question, Why?!) The neat part was that we bought a sampler kit which enabled to sample candy and liquors as we went through different parts of the museum. It was worth the extra $15 because the museum would just be weird otherwise. Although this is the first time I've ever drank in the museum so maybe the whole experience was just weird?
From there we planned to visit the ABBA museum but for $30 each it was a bit excessive for a couple of low grade ABBA fans. So what do you do instead? Take pictures of yourselves as the girls in ABBA. It's like you visited and have an extra $30 in your pocket.
We then hopped on the ferry again and visited the Modern Art Museum. They had some great installations and some awesome Picassos too!
We then grabbed the ferry back to the nearest port to our hotel, grabbed a fast crepe dinner and we're back at the hotel.
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