Blogs from Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe - page 3

Unfortunately I did not “hit the ground running” this morning. I’m still feeling poorly so I didn’t follow the itinerary I had planned. Instead I saw other sights around town and I was able to get a fair amount of sightseeing accomplished. To start, I followed Rick Steves’s walking tour of Old Stockholm which includes the Royal Palace. I snapped a photo of the palace (on the right), the cathedral (in the back), and a statue of a king of Sweden on his horse in the middle. Later there was a changing of the guard that was fairly impressive and included a marching band. The Nobel Museum is nearby and I toured that. Martin Luther King was the person featured and it was interesting to see the displays about him and his life. Later in the ... read more

Today started with a 4 hours train journey to Stockholm and a 3 night stay at the Hotel Lilla Radmannen. After check-in & lunch we headed out for a brief orientation walk around the medieval city that is arguably Scandinavia's most beautiful city. Gamla Stan, (or Old Town), is one of 14 islands that makes up the city & is its vibrant heart due to its historic architecture, narrow cobblestoned streets & home of the Royal Palace. However being expensive & crowded with tourists we had dinner & drinks in the emerging Sodermalm district. Next day the girls went to the ABBA museum & had a really good time while I visited a number of Stockholm’s underground stations. The subway (Tunnelbana) system of 100 stations is huge for a city of less than 1 mil & ... read more

We were up earlyish yesterday to watch the ships progress toward the port of Stockholm. It has to be one of the prettiest routes into port on any cruise stop ever. Stockholm is spread over 14 main islands, several thousand islets, and is surrounded by the Baltic sea and Lake Malaren. The journey to port gave us close up views of some of these islands and islets. Idyllic looking houses nestled amongst the forests which covered much of the landscape and some homes which were perched right up to the waterline. It looked like an amazing place to live but you would need a boat to get around and it would be fairly lonely at times I imagine. Once we had docked, we decided to walk to the city....this was, in hindsight, a possible error of ... read more

Samozobudenie nieco okolo 7.00 Opat spolocne ranajky. Tentoraz falosne mlieko. Lea opat odchadza odprevadit mileho na vlak. Tam a nazad dokopy asi 30.min. Este motanie sa na byte. Lea kontaktovala daku slovacku ale ta sa neozvala. Tak ideme smer mestecko s…(nevim ten nazov). V plane kupa 24hod karty, no v automate ani u ujka v budke ju nemali (papierova forma). Tak mi ujko predava sl kartu (20s) a tu mi cipuje na 24hod (125s). Po uplinuti tejto doby sa karta da znova dobyt. Lea kontrolule spoje cez sl appku. Mame cas 15.min, tak mensia prechadzka v okoli stanice. Kde nic zaujimave. Ono sme na nastupiste nesli skor bo listok plati 75min. To mozno aj vysvetluje dost sprintujucich ludi na nastupistiach. Na odenplane zmena metra za miestny vlak. Utekame na nastupiste, po dobehnuti casi odochdov nepasuju s ... read more

Rozkladacia postel s velmi makky matracom ale pohoda spanok. V noci ma zobudila macka. Pri mojej hlave ma taky stlp kde ma rozne medziposchodia. Normalne z vrchu (pri plafone) skakal dole. Na ranajky dake lisovane chleby s medom a fajn olivovou natierkou Nieco po 9.15 vyrazam na moju tour de metro. Jonas mi neodporucal ist medzi 8.00-9.00 to je najvacsia spicka. Fasujem maly skladaci daznik. Dnes by malo byt cely den zamracene a obcas prsat. Zelenym T sa presuvam na t-centrale. Tu pofotenie povrchu, ludi v uliciach este malo. Na vlak stanici navstevujem info centrum, berem mapu metra a mozem ist spoznavat metro kulturu. Prva zastavka je na rovnomernej stanici ako sa ide na modre T. Pekne pomalovane steny prakticky celeho nastupista. Kungstradgarden je dalsia art zastavka. Tez posobive. Z nastupista idem k turniketom ale len ... read more