One of the lesser known facts about Old Norse history is that Scandinavian warriors were often accompanied by surprising counterparts from the animal kingdom, seagulls. The latter went into a berserker-like rage, and neither sword, nor spear could stop these avian beasts from dismembering their enemies and feasting upon their skulls.
This is just a typical feeding frenzy!
Also, don't feed these berserkers processed white bread--it's not good for them.
The surest way to get to know a city--any city--in the here-and-now is to sit in a coffee shop and watch people go about their daily life, not visit museums and monuments. (Those serve a different purpose, and are meant to express the essence of a culture at its pinnacle.)
My best people-watching experiences so far have been in Tokyo and Moscow. The Baltic trip has been the epitome of tourism--organized and guided sightseeing, by and large--so I have had very few opportunities to engage in documentary street photography.
Yet there have been some exceptions too, and this street musician from Stockholm's medieval town is one of my favorites.
This weary traveller has been running around Stockholm in cowboy boots trying to avoid getting run over by the neverending and sometimes aggressive bicyclists. They are all "green" here, and city tour guides seem to think that we, foreigners, are more interested in every single coffee shop visited by Stieg Larsson--and Abba, naturally--than Viking weaponry or medieval kings. That's nothing that a daytrip to Birka, the most important Viking-age trading town in Sweden, couldn't fix, but I will rave about that later. In the meantime, here are some random mobile-shot details of Stockholm through my eyes.