Meag Rad

Hi!! Three important things to note before you start reading…

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1. I finally made it to Europe!! Yay!

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2. As you may have noticed by the instagrams and FB posts, I landed a few days ago… haha oops! This brings me to my third point…

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3. For those of you who thought I was busy before… Good Lord, were we wrong! Let me tell ya… I was planning to post nearly everyday but I barely have time to bathe let alone type novels out of free will. I will post as often as possible though and update you when a new one is submitted. I hope you enjoy them and are inspired to leave your couch if not your comfort zone.

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”If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” -Rachel Wolchin 

 

Once upon a time, as in 5 days ago, I was a naive little girl that had a grand plan to see the world and for the world to see me. This is great and all… unless you’re planning to see the entirety of Stockholm in the 18 layover that you planned between Chicago and Paris… but ill get to that in a minute. 

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Although I have been traveling for less than a week and I am new to international travel, (besides Mexico… but who really counts Mexico anyway?..) there are a few things I would do differently in the future and a few things that could not have gone better for us! Slight negatives first because everyone likes a happy ending, duh. 

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First of all, lets talk about airplane food… not great, but I suppose I should have foreseen that. To be honest, I did not even realize we were served dinner being it a 9pm flight from O’Hare. When the stewardess did roll by with dinner and offered the choices, she looked quite confused… not because we spoke a different language but because she was quite literally confused. She went on to confirm that she had no idea what type of meat was in the meatballs, (this must have been better than the second option because I don’t even remember what it was…) comforting. lol The good news is the meatballs came with a small salad and bread so that was more than sufficient enough to get me through until morning. The second meal was very similar, fruit salad and bread before we landed at noon. I suggest bringing snacks for any flight, especially long ones involving mystery meat. (Pro tip: not all mysteries are worth solving)

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Despite the food, the 8 hour flight from the U.S. to Sweden went really well! We only slept for about half the flight so naturally we were exhausted when we got off the plane. However, only 18 hours stood between us and our flight to Paris. This was just the first of our bright ideas (…to be continued). We were determined, excited and possibly a little drunk when we set out on our journey to conquer the Capital of Scandinavia. We managed to arrive at the city centre via the Arlanda Express Train and made our way all the way to old town seeing everything from the Stockholm Palace to the Nobel Museum. The city was beautiful, a good mixture between old and new. Though we were only there for a short period of time and we were not able to see everything, I am glad we had the opportunity to meet such kind people, taste such amazing food and experience such a great culture. We eventually grabbed a late dinner, more drinks (naturally) and headed back to the hotel knowing we had to be up at 5am the next day to take on our next country. France!