Trash baskets
as art - Kista Light on cultural Milleniumwalk, footpaths of Stieg Larsson, in
Stockholm Södermalm. Image: Thommy
Sjöberg
Today for the english readers - milleniumtourists as
well as others - "a google translation" with a little help from
Kistalight.
Why not a Millennium
Walk?
Follow the most attended and best-selling detective story of
them all!
Start with to buy a map at the City
Museum where we can follow Micke Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander in the footsteps
of their strolls around Södermalm.
Said and done, start at Mellqvist coffee
bar in Hornsgatan, my wife is longing for coffee, cappuccino with cardamom bun
and for me a double espresso with crust.
- Just to zoom into street life from
the streetcafé!
Young girls with lap-tops, women friends in lively
conversation, a woman with coffee cup and a novel by Siri Hustvedt, two
gentlemen discussing the cinematography and sounds of music from the coffee bar currents prog rock music.
Here could Stieg Larsson sit and write during
the Expo magazine period and here had Blomkvist his favouritcafé. Here asks
Lisbet Salander him for a loan of Fox, 120 000, to an important investment that
will make her three billion richer.
- A suitcase full of money is also good
to have!
Here is also Lisbeth Salander, so in love, and where she became deeply
disappointed when she sees Mike fucking Blomkvist kiss Erika Berger from
Millennium.
Not a bad idea to start the walk at Mellqvist coffee bar -
continues over Lunda Bridge, on Lundagatan further west on Södermalm grew
Salander up and there has Kista Light painted window in his youth in what we
called widowhouses.
- House by a simple standard for low-income women.
On
Monteliusvägen - promenade below Bastugatan (where Kista Light handed out mail
in his youth) is one of Stockholm's most beautiful views.
Peeking out over
Riddarfjärden over at Kungsholmen, Norrmalm and Old Town you can see a number of
famous buildings. City Hall, City court with Kronoberg where Lisbet's future and
destiny will be determined. Beyond Riddarholmen glimpse of the Royal Castle and
the Swedish Parliament. All symbols of society's power and institutions, of
course, to represent a young and vulnerable person.
On Bellmansgatan,
Micke Blomkvist's home address, we will make a gallery round. On the corner of
Hornsgatan where eight young silversmiths exhibit, we are literally thrown in -
well kindly invited - nice things to us unknown silversmiths. Here we meet our
own Ronne Dahl, H - sommarölänning and retired, happily toast in white wine and
talking about summer. H is very interested in culture and do most every Saturday
a gallery round - starting at the locks up Hornsgatspuckeln, turn off at
Bellmansgatan and so closed at the Maria Square.
- The Gallery season begins
in October and are looking forward in June says H happily since he was little in
the cap and are already broadcast on the legs after visiting a number of
galleries with generous glass of vernissagevine.
The synagogue on St. Paul
Street, Detective January Bublanskis Assembly, we do not see a glimpse of, but
here we meet a young blonde cute nurse with a baby in a pram, a former colleague
of my wife, while we're talking happily - gossip about their chiefs and stuff
perhaps, before moving on.
How sweet she was the little girl, so girly and what
a beautiful name Siri, "says my wife about his colleague's little baby.
- She
says Kista Light - that was a little guy! It was seen clearly. Your colleague
even said his name was Philip!
Remember that you can hear and see so
different! But it was two i in both names, we say in the corner of the street at
Hökens gata and Götgatan right where Millennium had its premises above
Greenpeace. While we understand that we will have plenty to discuss once we
become pensioners.
We miss the Mill, Kvarnen, where Lisbet Salander meet the
girls in the band Evil Fingers, for which we have been before, while we rush
towards Fish Street.
Salander and the Swedish loneliness can you meditate
over while standing outside the gate at Fiskargatan 9th. The hacker Lisbet as
wit to the billion and bought a luxury apartment, which she calls V Kulla and
where no one knows that she lives.
Was it really Bosse Parnevik who lived
there or was that ABB's Percy Barnevik? Anyway, there must be this mystery
genre's most lonely hero (heroine). No one has her address and her way over
there have gone from a minor statement, the victim of sadistic rape, buried
alive by her father and brother and, finally, forensic psychiatric abuse from
society.
Talk about exposure and to be scruffy!
While Salander follow a
development curve. She, the girl with Aspberg syndrome, learning impact,
studying higher mathematics, will help boost her femininity and travel to the
Caribbean for her clips hacking before it is time for the final settlement with
the family (see ancient drama) and to deal with society.
One wonders how much
Stieg Larsson has taken from his own personal history and emotional development
in his Salander history. Salander is the Millennium trilogy genius Clou and
here are cyberPippi in the digital age.
Puzzle, police and spy
thriller! (Pussel, polis och spiondeckare!)
All in one!
Does Millennium trilogy tells
something about Sweden!
We did not know?
Fun with the
millennium tour - in fact we met a group of tourists, certainly more than thirty
of the Monteliusvägen walking in the City Museum's house - crowded there - might
suit us at another time with a guided milleniumtour.
Colorful sofa
at Mosebacke comfortable to rest on after a detective walk. Image: Thommy
Sjöberg
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