Every time I visit Stockholm (3 or 4 times a year, I’d guess) I make a point of spending at least one evening at Mandus. It’s a little restaurant in the old town (Gamla Stan), that is mainly marketed at (and apparently run by) gay folk. However, it is certainly ‘heterofriendly’, and seems to get a fair bit of passing trade.
The food is good, reasonably priced (much cheaper than many of the tourist targetted establishments nearby), and they are always very tolerant of my need to speak English!
I’ve idled many pleasant evenings there, and I tend to take colleagues along if we’re travelling as a group. It makes a nice change to be on the road, and in a bar where the eye candy is biased in my direction :-)
If you’re ever in Stockholm, it’s highly recommended. Apologies for the quality of tonight’s picture, but it was dark by the time I left!
It was a lot of fun. The event packs in around 15 competitions in one evening, and so there is always something happening on the track. Track cycling is quite varied, and when I saw it for the first time a few years ago, I was surprised how dramatic it was.
I’ve been watching Bristol City for a couple of years with Andy, and as they are in a lower league to the Sky Blues, there’s been little risk of divided loyalties at a match. This year’s FA cup changed that, and Bristol vs Coventry was drawn. Of course, I had to watch that! For the first leg in Bristol, I just sat discreetly in the Bristol crowd (it was easy to applaud them too!), and we watched an exciting, if scrappy, 3-3 draw. Setting up, of course, a replay at the