Blogs from Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe - page 61

Day 13: Arriving in Stockholm. Took the early flight out of Merida at 6 am to catch the flight to New York form Caracas in time. Made the big mistake of going out with 3 local Meridans late into the night, which allowed only 2 hours of sleep. Upon arrival in JFK took the train into town and walked around with my back pack in the 20 degree weather and wind. Had lunch in the little India region at Lexington and 28th street and headed to catch the overnight plane from Newark to Stockholm. Arrived the following day to the spotless airport of Stockholm, on a rare sunny day temp of -5 c. A timely and quiet train awaited us at the main terminal to the center of the Stockholm for 28 dollars. As can be ... read more

Stockholm truly lives up to its reputation for being one of the world's most beautiful cities. The city itself is made up of thousands of islands, with multiple harbours forming the backdrop for the beautiful baroque style architecture throughout the city centre. Our day in Stockholm was largely spent strolling around. While it was a very chilly day, the sun was out making our stroll along the harbour really beautiful. Being that Stockholm is the city of museums, it was only fitting that our visit there include two of the most famous. We first visited Skansen, an open air museum that exhibits traditional housing from Swedish and Nordic lands. It also houses a huge variety of animals, some of which I had never seen before. Being that its winter here, the brown bears at Skansen were ... read more

Eight classmates of mine (from my pre-semester Danish course) and I decided to go for a trip to Stockholm, before the Spring Semester began. We took a 9 hour overnight bus. I was very paranoid that I would forget something, or perhaps we would miss our bus stop. I packed everything to a T. I had the smallest backpack out of all of my fellow travelers, which I was very proud of myself for doing. I even packed a first aid kit. After 9 hours of interrupted sleep and being jerked around on SWEBUS we finally arrived at Central Station Stockholm at 7AM. We all withdrew money from an ATM and used the restrooms. And then I realized that I left my backpack on the bus! Panicked, I ran outside and chased after our bus flailing ... read more

By the time I reached Stockholm, I was feeling rather beat up - more from the lack of sleep the past few days (ah, the 5am wakeup) than hitting my head on the overhead compartment of the plane. Yesterday was either a comedy of errors, or just one disaster after another. I got on my flight with no problems, but then learned that the carry on I had shown to the check in agent was in fact too large for the overhead compartment - which i didn't figure out until after I had removed a bunch of books from it and irritated passengers embarking on the plane. At any rate, I finally settled in my seat by the window, only to realize when my travel companion sat down next to me that I had in fact ... read more

Well this is my first blog and as we are not on the road I thought I should show a few pictures of the beauty of Stockholm where we live. Unfornately Stockholm is not what it should be at the moment. We have had no snow to date and most of the days have been well over freezing. It appears that global warming has already affected the Swedish climate. When I grew up (am now 33) in the south of England I had a wooden sledge. Nowadays I doubt they even sell them and things seem to be going the same way even up here in the Nordics. Time for us all to change our lifestyle it would seem. So here are some old winter pictures of Stockholm that I hope any readers will enjoy. I ... read more