Islands surrounding Stockholm

Land of the midnight sun - Stockholm, Sweden

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July 4th 2010
The sun sets at about 11:30pm and rises again at 4:30am. So… we never see night anymore. We’re in bed before the sun goes down and we don’t get up till it rises again… very strange ;-) We never leave our stateroom without sunglasses! Well, we have been VERY lucky once again. The three ships before us had to skip Stockholm as it was too foggy to navigate the 58 miles of islands that ar ... read more

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A military power during the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in any war in almost two centuries. An armed neutrality was preserved in both World Wars. Sweden's long-successful economic formula of a capitalist system interlarded with substant... ... read more