Quick Update from Stockholm

I am not going to go in depth here cause I have another post in progress that will recap the trip and hopefully feature the 100+ pictures I have taken. I absolutely loved Stockholm, a truly wonderful, interesting and beautiful city. I may even come back. I actually found myself saying at one point, "I could live here if it were not for surfing..." I have only said that about two other cities...although I am tied to San Diego.

Well, then today the grand finale! I was walking home a new way and what did I see...a Quicksilver shop. I figured they were selling snowboarding stuff but they had a surfboard on display some video from the Wedge so I thought I would mosy on in. When I was in there I asked the owner if they ever sell surf equipment, or if anyone around here surfs. Turns out he is an avid surfer (having lived in Hawaii and California), the guy that was working the counter was a surfer, and the girl working there was to have her first session tomorrow. The owner said it was supposed to be head high, and I was talking about how much I missed surfing back home and the girl asked if I wanted to come tomorrow! Are you kidding me? Well, I don't have equipment...the owner says "I am sure I have what you need and can loan it to you for the day." I wanted to die on the spot...as I looked back up to the spongers taking off at a gnarly day at the Wedge I realized...Stockholm has surfing!

I suppose I should say that I cannot go because I have to be back for class and I have readings to do. Darn my sense of responsibility and bad conscience infused super-ego! Who am I kidding, certainly not myself, darn my non-refundable train ticket and the later train tix that run 2-3x as expensive. OK, I am not going! I AM NOT GOING SURFING WITH THE BEAUTIFUL SWEDISH SURFING GIRL. I am riding a long, oh so long, train ride back to Copenhagen. But............I am riding back with the names, email addresses and phone numbers of some Stockholm surfers and some Danish surfers they know! Will I come back to Stockholm? Yes, I think I will.

PS, don't tell me about how its firing in SD for at least the next week...I already heard about the offshores!