Blogs from Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe - page 14

We got the 8.30 train from Copenhagen to Stockholm – it was a Swedish SJ train and was like the ICE train from Brussels to Cologne a few days ago. The SJ train had even more room but not as futuristic – bit like BMW compared to SAAB. We arrived on time to Stockholm Central, which was similar size to Cologne and Copenhagen station but nowhere near as big and scary as Brussels and St Pancras. We are staying at City Backpackers Hostel and it was about a ten minute walk from the train station. The hostel is absolutely amazing – so lovely and clean and feels more like a hotel then a hostel. And you get as much pasta as you can eat for free (free food – my favourite thing!!). Would highly recommend this ... read more

September 2, 2011 We arrived in Stockholm, Sweden via the Princess Cruise Ship Emerald. While Stockholm is often called the "Venice of the North", it is nothing like Venice. However, most of the downtown is along waterways. That is because Stockholm consists of 14 islands in Lake Malaren, and borders the Baltic Sea. Rather than do a walking tour of the city, we opted instead to see the city by boat. From our sightseeing boat we saw the Royal Palace built in the 18th century, which today houses a number of musuems, the National Theater, Old Town (the original Stockholm), and numerous other musuems buildings, shops, apartments, as well as, the Grona Lund Amusement Park, established in 1883, a very small park when compared to the size of amusement parks we are used to in the ... read more

Nu är det bestämt vem som jag kommer att hyra ut min lägenhet till under tiden jag är bortrest. Det känns skönt. Har suttit och skrivit på ett präktigt andrahandskontrakt ikväll som jag slutligen blev väldigt nöjd med. I helgen som kommer ska vi skriva på. Ryggsäck fyndade jag för några veckor sedan. Den känns jävligt bra. Har provpackat den med smutskläder och vinflaskor. Det gick finemang. Har dock misstankar av högre grad att det kommer vara svårare att packa den när jag väl ska ge mig iväg. Ikväll har jag, förrutom kontraktskrivandet, också skrivit ner olika städer som jag skulle vilja besöka på Nya Zeeland som ju är fösta anhalt. Det blev en del, kan man säga. Bland andra Cape Rengia, Bay of Islands, Rotorua, Taupo, Wellington, Napier, Franz Joseph, Golden Bay, Marlborough Sounds, Christchurch, ... read more

We have had 2 wonderful days with sunny blue skies, also lovely and warm. So driving about 20 minutes from our house is Tyresta National Park and with the help of Sally Satnav we took a country road out to the coastline. Boots on we set off for a pretty good hike through meadows, forest trails and eventually to a small still lake...then back again to have a sumptuous picnic sitting on rocks overlooking the sea...and some boats in a marina. Then yesterday we were up early and taking the metro into the city to get down to the Quay and take a boat trip out into the archilpelago. Stockholm has 30,000 ( I think I read that somewhere) small islands in the archilpelago. WE picked this particular cruise the Stromma Kanal cruise as it cuts ... read more

A colleague dropped into the conversation that he had an apartment in Sweden which was being sold a the end of the month and why don't I head over and use it for the weekend. Lets just say that it took me about a nano-second to go OK, how many does it sleep, slightly longer to sort out logistics, but a couple of weeks later I was on a plane flying in over the many waterways that makes up the Stockholm Archipeligo to Skavtska Airport and then into the city to wait for my 3 amigas for the weekend - Asha, Ewa and Dan. It was nice to stay in a fancy flat rather than squeezing into a hotel room or the usual hostel. Being able to get up in the morning and relax over a ... read more