Beautiful, cold and expensive

Was how a friend of mine described Scandinavia (though at first I thought he was talking about an ex-girlfriend), and he was mainly right
I was in Stockholm for work last week. It was a lovely place, and reminded me a lot of Vienna.
When I told folks I was goign to Stockholm, they did that whole "Mechanic" thing of sucking breath in over the teeth, complete with "It'll be expensive"

However it didn't appear that way, just eating and drinking out seemed pricy, and that was okay because work was paying for it.

One evening we enjoyed some lovely meatballs (much meatier than the ones you get in IKEA) and found what seems to be the Most Expensive Whisky Ever. 3,000 Swedish Kronor for a cl (10 ml) equates to about £560 a shot. We were shown the bottle when we were chatting to the barman. (Well, I say we, but it was all my Swedish-speaking colleague), it cost them 150,000 Kr (£11k) when they got it 5 years ago, and it was nearly finished - someone's actually had some !