Where is everybody?

It must have been the same last year and perhaps I think this each summer, but where is everybody? Walking through the city at 19.30 on a Saturday evening there was no one around.

Every July the majority of smaller shops close for much of the month for their summer holidays, but this year it seems that even more people have deserted the capital. Perhaps it has something to do with the bad summer weather that Scandinavia has experienced these past few weeks, or maybe it really is like this each year and I just forget. But whatever the cause, the city seems empty.

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Just after I started writing this, the power went out in this area and stayed out for a couple of hours. It was then that you could really notice how little noise we actually make ourselves - the place was silent in the semi-darkness. The majority of the noise that we generate seems to come from tvs, stereos, radios and other electrical equipment. Without the use of these it was eerily silent here...