Suffice it to say that the city is amazingly beautiful. Stately. It helped that we had beautiful weather. And it's a bit cheaper than Copenhagen. Wish we could've stayed longer! I took so many pictures that I filled the memory card on my camera -- something I haven't done in years.
We spent our two nights at Stureparkens Gästvåning in Östermalm (north part of the city), which we found through our Rick Steves guide.
The first night we wandered around the old city (which is on its own island), Gamla Stan. It has tall buildings and narrow winding cobblestone streets. The building are painted solid yellows and reds and other primary colors. The light was amazing.
For dinner we had reindeer with cream and horseradish (as an appetizer), followed by fish and potatoes (for the main course):
Then we wandered back to our hotel.
Hey, look, they have math on their money! The picture is of Christopher Polhem, a Swedish scientist.
The next morning we walked from our hotel to the city center, stopping at a church and a world-class open-air market on the way.
We went to the "Taste of Stockholm" event, got a quick lunch, and then went to the Vasa museum, which is a museum containing a huge warship that sunk in the 1620's, just after putting out to sea for the first time.
After this we went to Skansen, a huge open-air museum filled with buildings, animals, people, and events as they were a hundred years ago. It was like walking through a forest in the city.
More pictures of the waterfront:
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