Stockholm is amazing. Built on a number of islands, and with each island having it’s own “feel”, there was lots to explore, see, do and experience. It was a shame I only really had a day and a night! In a way it was good though, due to the near crippling prices of Sweden in general. I was staying on the island of Södermalm, to the south of Gamla Stan (the Old Town), and it was very much a bohemian area of town. Hundreds of trendy young things, shopping, drinking, eating, and hanging around having fun. On my way to the hostel, I stumbled across the Changing of the Guards outside the Royal Palace in the old town, and after half an hour of trumpet based music from horses, and lots of Prussian style uniforms, I
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