Stockholm trip

We did a 2 day cruise to Stockholm on a perfect weekend... we had around 20C on both sides of Itämeri. Stockholm is such a gorgeous city !

We did not have time for too much at the city (most of the time in these 2 day cruises goes to ...hhmm actual cruising) so some of us went shopping and some (me, Vili, Valtteri, Outi and Marja (my sisters)) went to see the old Vasa warship from 1628. Besides being an absolute amazing "object" and kept/presented so well, it actually bears a story having some resembles to our lives for us too ?



To keep it short - the ship had been designed to have just one deck full of guns (that was what the swedish warshipmakers had been doing so far) but the king wanted an additional deck of guns. Despite of possibly stated worries, that was then executed (who would and could resist king's wishes ?). When it was finally ready it was initially tested with 30 men which were ordered to run from one side to another repeaditly. It failed the tests - it almost sank from that swinging causes by 30 runnign man. But since the King had ordered it to be urgently launched (and he was at the time in Poland) they went on to the sea. With the second mild freeze and only 4 of it's I-dont-know-how-many sails it sank. Took ~50 men with it too.
Sadly at least to me this does not sound too distant even in current corporate world ?... or in political neither.