So another week goes by and some more food eaten. First up is Östgöta Källaren on Östgötagatan, and basically we didn’t eat here because of the extremely rude service we received upon trying to find a table. I would avoid this place in the near future as there are so many other places worthy of your business in the area. Vampire Lounge underneath though can be recommended for the great cocktails available.

Back A Yard on Folkungagatan 128 is the exact opposite, the service was great, the hostess extremely friendly and as long as you are not in a rush for the bill (perhaps to give an authentic Jamaican feel) its very good. They serve a nice range of Jamaican style food like Jerk Chicken and Ital Stew, though Curried Goat was off the menu they did manage to serve up a very tasty Curried Lamb stew which went great with Red Stripe. This is definitely one I would go back to and try the Red Snapper.

Koh Phangan was a slightly different affair, but again very pleasant experience, this time Thai food which went down well with sitting outside on a sunny day. Can’t exactly remember what noodle dish I had but it was good, and if I feel like Thai I might be inclined to visit again if I was at Skånegatan 57 Stockholm.

Stiernan at Renstiernas gata 22 – as they say in other reviews about this, don’t look for the name – just a star above the door and you will find this restaurant bar. Again a pleasant well priced experience, I like the beer menu with Newcastle Brown Ale on tap, and the food menu for the restaurant looked great, both of us choose Pork Medallions mine with port sauce and the other with Chilli Bernaise. I say I would prefer the port sauce if I could choose again but that largely down to personal choice. Service was good enough to leave a good tip. If you are tight for money the bar menu is very cheap.

Have been borrowing a couple of cars quite recently and I have just noticed that its cheaper to take a car from inside the city and pay the congestion charge than to pay the average day car parking fee, now I am not sure how that helps matters. Surely it would be better to leave the car at home and just use public transport until I need the car. I haven’t looked at how much a monthly permit is but I wonder whether it is cheaper than the 25Kr a day it costs in congestion charge at the times that I use it…

And speaking of driving, Sweden is fairly safe particularly when compared to England perhaps due in some part to not having so many cars per square kilometre but I am fairly stunned that most of the roads that I have driven on at night do not have Cat’s eyes. Of course these would be completely useless in the winter due to snow, but they have additional road markings then anyway, but I really miss them in normal driving.

Argh! The boxes! Stockholm has been having quite changeable weather recently, and of course everything is in boxes and bags and until the new wardrobes arrive. All the clothes are scattered all over the place and I can’t find anything. Let alone if I go sailing this weekend with all my winter clothes packed up.

At least the TV and the sofa are now up and ready, and of course being used. The whole move has worn me down quite a lot more than I would have thought it would.

So for the moment we are waiting on the new wardrobes, and to take a lot of the empty boxes down in to storage… The fun never ends.

And I must sort out the template for this blog – its all over the place.. Add that on to the list of things to do.

Finally finally! On Friday we got the keys and sorted out the paper work, moved all our things from Solna to Södermalm and started to unpack! It feels great to finally be in though there are lots of things to sort out, though the most important room is pretty much there.

More of an update soon.

The move continues to happen. After spending a long weekend in Karlstad we came back to pack even more things, a room a day or there abouts. Can’t say I enjoy packing, but tomorrow it will all be worth it for thats when we move in! WooHoo!

Its been a long wait.