SFCSO&STHLM

July 18, 2010 — Laura and I began my birthday at Mosebacke in Stockholm’s Södermalm district. We ate breakfast with a view of the city on one side and a live band playing Django Reinhardt on the other. As if that wasn’t sufficient celebration, there was more pleasant frivolity on the menu. We stopped in Gamla Stan (Old Town) to rent a tandem bike and ride it through the parks and along the waterways of Djurgården. Our trusty steed was old — early 1940s vintage — but true. It will always be one of the best days in my memory.