Well, here I am in Stockholm! Took a train from the airport to the Central Station before getting on the Metro to Medborgarplatsen to get to my hotel. En route, I snapped a photo in the train station to find Sweden’s answer to the perennial Pulp Fiction question of what do they call a Quarter Pounder in Country X:
No Royale With Cheese for the Swedes, they’ve got the QP Cheese. And it’s expensive! That’s about eight dollars for the burger, a medium fries, and a soda. Presumably Sweden’s high taxes and relatively high-wages for low-end workers accounts for the costly fast food. Of course from a social point of view, expensive fast food probably has public health benefits.
My other first impression is that there seem to be an awful lot of bookstores and 7/11s in this city. Or, I guess I should say, that I’ve seen an aweful lot of bookstores and 7/11s within a very limited range of exposure to the city.
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