Blogs from Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe - page 58

Traveling with the Hatt´s Europe » Sweden » Stockholm By ChipwoodJune 14th 2007Untitled Started traveling with Tanna and Marylee in Stockholm and we toured the city for a couple of days and took the ferry tour of the city. Then we decided to head to Norway for a couple of days before we went to Leksand for Mid-summer festival. We took the train to Oslo and arrived in time to catch the last train to Myrdal on our way to the fjords. From Myrdal we road the local tourist train down a steep canyon to Flan at the waters edge, stayed the night and toured the fjords the next day. In the afternoon we took the ferry on a five hour ride ou... read more

Ich habe ja bereits an viele von euch eine sehr, sehr lange Mail geschrieben und somit habt ihr ja schonmal einen kleinen Überblick darüber wie es hier in Schweden ist. what's going on ... ... da es in Schweden - speziell in Stockholm - sehr viele Deutsche gibt, gibt es natürlich auch einen deutschen Stammtisch .... ja, ihr habt richtig gehört ... mit deutschem, d.h. bayrischem, Bier ... Bei dem Stammtisch Anfang Juni habe ich ein dt. Pärchen kennen gelernt: Wencke und Sven. Beide haben in Dtl. an der FH Mittweida (gar nicht so weit weg von Freiberg, was!?) Elektrotechnik studiert. Letztes Jahr haben die beiden dann ihren lang vorbereiteten Rückzug aus Dtl. vollzogen und sind nach Schweden gegangen ... beide haben hier in Stockholm Arbeit gefunden und wollen gegen Ende des Sommers nach Örebro ... read more

Happy Birthday, Michelle! We got up and ate the rest of our strawberries. We’ve been eating granola cereal and yogurt, which is really delicious. We took a bus to the Vassa Museum. Cathy was in a foul mood today (she claimed it was because her hand hurt). She even said the sound of my flip-flops annoyed her. The Vassa was a ship that sunk in the harbor of Stockholm in the 1600’s on its maiden voyage. Its location in the harbor was lost for hundreds of years but then they found it and brought it to the surface in the 1960s. It is really amazing to see how well preserved it is considering how old it is and how it sat at the bottom of the harbor for 300 years. They found the remains of ... read more

Sweden Day FourAmanda Stockholm Adventures We got Stockholm Cards today. It’s a tourist card that gives huge discounts on museums and free busses and metros for 3 days. A free boat tour is also included with the card. We took the boat tour that goes around the city because Stockholm has a huge harbor surrounding it. I was baking in the window seat for too long on the boat and started to feel sick. After the boat tour, we walked to this department store called NK which had really amazing architecture. After meeting up with Inglea, we took a bus and walked to the southern part of the city. She tried to show us around, but everything was closed since it was Sunday. She took us to this pretty sketchy restaurant, but I liked my food. ... read more

I left Tracy in the Nice Airport on Friday morning at 5 am (standing patiently in the Easyjet check in line) and got on a nice KLM flight through Amsterdam to Stockholm. Pam met me outside Customs and we drove about one hour to her beautiful farmhouse in Strangnas. This is the most relaxing, comfortable and charming place... and no, it isn't just because I've been on the road for 2 weeks straight! The weather is unseasonably warm this week and it's actually wamer here than in either Paris or Nice! Pam's Swedish family is so nice. I am staying in a little guest house with Laura, Pam's mom, who visits her for one month each summer. I enjoyed meeting many of her friends at her 40th Birthday Party yesterday. The party started about 3 ... read more