What We Did This Weekend

We continue our progress round the tourist sites of Stockholm, normally just squeezing in one site a day. Saturday's visit was to the Kaknästornet, which is a 1960s concrete TV tower in a large park near the city centre. Very fine view but also quite cold up in the wind.
Nerd point - Admire the simplicity of the form (square tower with larger square rotated to form the platforms) and the pattern formed by the different colour of the different concrete pours.
Then today we went on a very interesting guided tour of the parliament building. This might sound slightly nerdy but was very interesting. Lots of examples of swedish consensus-based politics and cooperation. Speaker gets chosen by parliament and then they propose a Prime Minister to the house. MPs seats are decided by constituency rather than by party, so your neighbour might be your deadly political rival - but this is Sweden so they'll get along. Charlotte realised at some point that we were the oldest people on the tour - very strange thought - where were all the sensible grown-ups?
Cultural note - people have just taken down their christmas lights now - must be a sign that the days are getting longer. They certainly feel like they are - even light on the way home from work now.
Still plenty of snow and ice around - weather now between -5 and 0 so not as cold as it was a fortnight ago. Forecast for some even warmer weather in a week's time.

Photos of both on flickr (www.flickr.com/charlotteandnick).