Swedish Parker!

A weekend in the Swedish Sun with Jay, Jess and the infamous Buzz Killington.

WITH my very good friends in Dublin on a junkit this month, I was lucky enough to have them drop into Stockholm for the weekend.

Following an emotional trip to the footy shortly after their arrival, Jay, Jess and I headed into town.

Obviously I had to show them “Stureplan” aka the very fancy, very fashionable, very beautiful, and very snobby nightclubbing district of central Stockholm.

We headed to the relative safety of one of my favourite Stockholm bars, Utecompagniet.

Despite being smack-bang in the middle of Stureplan, it’s one of the few places you don’t pay $30 to get into, and you actually can find some pretty cool people there.

Though all we found this night was Buzz Killington (see further down for more details about this illustrious creature).

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We spent the days wandering the beautiful streets of the city in some brilliant weather (we all even managed to get sunburnt – not bad for a trio of Gold Coasters in Scandinavia).

We stumbled across the city’s most colourful bar. And despite it being full of Buzz Killingtons and having bar staff that looked like angels, it couldn’t have been more relaxing.

Did the customary visit to Iron Boy:

Headed out to my favourite restaurant, PetSounds Bar, spending most of the evening trying to guess the famous musicians on the wall (in between reminiscing about the incredible Buzz Killington we saw the previous night).

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Looking back 18 months, I can’t imagine any of us having predicted we’d soon all wind up in Stockholm, a year since having seen each other.

So we basically just spent the weekend soaking up the good weather, and the bloody good times.

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Buzz Killington

Above: Stockholm’s most illustrious Buzz Killington

How To Spot a Buzz Killington:

- has blonde, medium-length, swished-back hair with a part in it
- looks like a wealthy douchebag
- acts like a wealthy douchebag
- most likely wearing a collared shirt with jacket
- alternatively can be wearing polo shirt, so long as it has a large, luxurious crest on it (popular with daytime Buzz Killingtons)
- Buzz Killington won’t be wearing jeans (that’s far too casual)
- socialises within swarms of other Buzz Killingtons – a Buzz by itself is quite weak, but in a pack they’re strong
- unlikely to be seen socialising with any non-Buzz Killingtons
- will be seen drinking champagne (never beer)
- in the evening Buzz Killington will look like he’s just come from dinner at the yacht club
- during the day Buzz Killington will look like he’s just come from lunch at the yacht club
- occasionally you may see the rare, female-Buzz Killington, “Emelia Bedford Forthington Chesterhill” (though Buzz and Emelia can never mix, that’d be like world’s colliding…)
- Buzz Killingtons almost exclusively frequent Stureplan
- locals here in Stockholm would simply call Buzz Killington a “Sturebrat,” or the more affectionate, “Brat.”

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