Parliament Building (Riksdagshuset) Stockholm

As a New Year's resolution we decided to create this blog. We will try to retrace our steps and describe the trips we took in the previous years. Right now we are on our last trip of 2012 and first trip of 2013. We are driving through snowy Lapland. It's a magical country and it looks as if we came out through a closet door in white Narnia.
We …

If you are traveling from Västerås to Stockholm, it should be noted that Axelsson Bus has a Saturday shopping bus, that leaves at 0900 and returns at 1700. It is 100 SEK round trip. I can almost guarantee that you will not find a better deal anywhere else! I arrived at 0840, thinking that I would have plenty of time. I also thought the trip was …

Hej!

We finally arrived at the beautiful Stockholm, more exactly at the Stockholm Arlanda Airport.
Unfortunately, our bags took about 40 minutes to arrive to the baggage claim area. There were some delays with the staff. Well, no worries, as everything turned out fine!

So, we got ourselves on the train and finally arrived at …

... , here they now are. The Medeltidmuseum came into existence because some bright spark wanted to build a car park underneath the Parliament building on the teeny central island of Helgeandsholemen, which is so close to Gamla Stan you could pee on it from ...

... back to the central station and had lunch then went back to hotel for a rest before resuming our walk visiting the Riksdag (parliament building) and taking some pictures of the other side of the Royal Palace as well as the Opera House and National ...

... streets of Gamla Stan, or Old Town. The town has an island to itself that it shares with the Royal Palace and the Parliament building. It is preserved completely intact, including a virtual ban on cars and not even very many piles of horse manure. To ...

... unless they are not taking care of the land, like leaving trash or something along those lines.  So the old Parliament building in Stockholm falls under this law too, the building is owned by the government but since the law says every man has ...

... ; But not by much... Yesterday was another gorgeous sunny day in Oslo.  I strolled down Karl Johans Gate past the Parliament building, then turned towards the harbor.  There, I caught a ferry across the harbor to Bygdoy (pronounced "Big ...

... can take a tour. But I wanted to see the Changing of the Guard, so the tour will wait for another day. When you exit the parliament building, the Royal Castle is right there, and you are on the backside. I walked up the walkway, to have a better view of ...

... historical place.  After crossing the Bridge, and walking around the Royal Palace, we came upon our first site, the Parliament Building.  It had just started to sprinkle, and the local residents and other tourists had scurried into the doorways ...

... We dropped our bags off, got some free coffee, and started to explore the city. We walked by the city hall, through the parliament building, and down by the water towards Gamla Stan, the Old Town. Gamla Stan is a nice little island with many old, ...

... the place we saw the most of in Stockholm! The first sight on the walking tour was walking through the Aron Johansson’s Parliament building from 1905, it’s not much of a sight though and we didn’t stop. We wandered along the main ...

... I love!).  It has very narrow streets, lots of colour and tons of shops, cafe's and restaurants.  This is where the Parliament building  is where I snatched the opportunity to take shots of all the "faces" that are built into the walls and ...