Each year, I celebrate birthday in different places, preferably in different countries.
Five years ago, I went to Stockholm, just for a few days. - Anno 1647, the name of the hotel in downtown Stockholm let me feel the atmosphere of how Swedes lived centuries ago. I went there with my friend and we did not just enjoy the magnificent atmosphere there, but also started examining the surroundings right away. It was a cool, breezy, actually windy day, and hence we dressed up with all the cloths we had in our suitcases. – Now, actually, I was born after midnight, 00.30 to be precise, and then we had this stupid, wild, outrageous idea to seek the ladder which would lead us up to the roof of that hotel and celebrate the birthday where the Karlsson on the Roof perhaps living.We brought with us a cake, candles, champagne and hiked up.
Midnight came, 30 further minutes passed, we lit the candles, I made my wish, we blew them out, ate some slices of the cake and then – sitting closet to the edge of the roof enjoyed the starry night above us. – And, thinking of Astrid Lindgren, of course, and the Karlsson on the Roof.
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