Country Info
- Stockholm
- Capital
- Swedish Krona (SEK)
- Currency
- 8,875,053
- Population
- SE
- Country Code
Sweden Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sweden
Sverige
This is a top pick! Quote of the moment: "Sometimes you miss the pain", Swingers. Stockholm.... Travelling up through Sweden to see their fair capital you have to take a moment to consider and appreciate the rolling landscapes, the wooden houses, the clear blue ...
Vasteras - the real swedish experience!
This is a top pick! ... train station where I hop a train to Vasteras to meet up with another Malin from couchsurfing. Vasteras is the 4th largest city in Sweden at 140,000 or so, situated on a large lake just west of Stockholm. I get off the train to the bottle of ...
A day on the lake, Swedish style
This is a top pick! ... -cooked vodka that was not what I needed at that point in the night. We all walked back to Malin's place and made it to bed sometime before we had to be up to grab a train into Stockholm for the Sweden - Ukraine friendly soccer match the "next" day. ...
Sweden - Ukraine Match... and it's JUNE!!!
This is a top pick! ... to eat and Malin actually asked if I wanted a beer with my breakfast... I look around and see most people decked out in Sweden apparel and it seems like everyone has a beer in hand. Still, I graciously decline (score one for me!) and ...
Detox, rehab, water, please!!!
This is a top pick! ... waffle cone of ice cream afterwards that was like heaven on earth! Next we walked around and talked about life in Australia and Sweden as well as long distance relationships... she's been dating a Swedish guy she met in Thailand for the past 3.5 years ...
Summer in Sweden
This is a top pick! ... for 7 days, we were keen to get to a Laundromat. We were OK, smell wise, but our smalls were running low. However, Sweden has a distinct lack of Laundromats and most people we asked said everyone has a washing machine in their flat or house when they buy ...
Gubbangen Sports Complex - School
This is a top pick! ... and persist for about 15 minutes or so then totally disappear. After we left Norway behind, we moved fairly quickly through Sweden to arrange ferries to Finland, St Petersburg and Estonia. I've included some nice pictures of Stockholm before we move ...
Childhood latitudes.
This is a top pick! Having a couple of days off in early December, it was definitively about time planning a new excursion with my long time favorite travel buddy Alf Kåre. We "snuste på" destinations like Egypt, Morocco and Romania, but ended up with ...
World's Biggest IKEA
This is a top pick! One of the main reasons for coming to Sweden was to visit the world's biggest IKEA store. After bumming around for the morning we headed out to try and catch the train out of town to the store. We found the station easily but then had a bit of trouble ...
What chefs do when they are bored
This is a top pick! Was the chef on the Muppets the first TV chef? I don't know, but in the late 1970s he was a big hit. Wearing a toque blanche, raising those bushy eyebrows, and man-handling those utensils, the chef always seemed happy, singing along in Swedish ...
Stockholm stopover
This is a top pick! ... very sad but that was how it was. Sweden had been our bonus trip on our world ticket but due to our exhaustion, and Sweden's expensiveness we were only there for an overnighter. We stayed the night at the Gardet Hostel. The next morning we headed back to ...
Stockholm syndrome
This is a top pick! Stockholm is a pretty city, but I didn't find it amazing. I enjoyed catching the ferry around to some of the small islands. The old town 'Gamla Stan' was cute, but very touristy. The changing of the guards at the Royal Palace was a highlight as it is ...
Stockholm, Sweden
This is a top pick! ... your mornings start like this, you know the day has to get better. Trains cross the bridge from Copenhagen to Malmo, Sweden every twenty minutes, from there we caught the train north to Stockholm. The fast trains in Scandinavia arecalled the X2000 ...
Gothenburg
This is a top pick! ... again. I'd been checking the weather forecast to see if it would be snowing - I really wanted it to snow. But apparently Sweden had had an unusually warm winter. Our mate, Jessica, said she had been performing regular snow dances to encourage it but ...
Around the traps at Malmo
This is a top pick! ... landscape and natural attractions can be enjoyed to their fullest. Watch out mate! Malmo is at the extreme south of Sweden, facing Denmark across a pretty narrow stretch of water that separates the Baltic and North Seas. No doubt a busy ...
Good Intentions
This is a top pick! Having our bus to Oslo organized and thinking we'd still not seen much of Stockholm we decided to attempt the walking tour in the guide we had. Of course we missed a couple of turns and eventually gave up following its directions. As always we had good ...
Australia Day + nude snow roll
This is a top pick! ... things Aussies do... After drinking three or six of my home brew VB, snow-chilled early on Australia Day in Sweden, I couldn't think of anything better to do than participate in a crazy Norse health tradition passed down through generations of ...
Stockholm syndrome - hijack my heart
This is a top pick! Hi guys, Profuse apologies for not posting for a week. Sweden has been a bit of a whirlwind so far (blizzard would also be an apt description) and I seem to have done so much in this time that I haven't written a bean, which means I have to write a ...
The Wedding
This is a top pick! Wednesday Whilst waiting in Budapest airport for our flight to Copenhagen we overheard someone talking about some painted monasteries in Romania (that we wanted to vist), so we turned to ask some questions and were faced with a japanese looking man ...
Stockholm Madness
This is a top pick! The cruise through the archipelago is awe inspiring and what I presume the Queen Charlotte Sounds in NZ would have looked similar to had it not been so foggy! All the summer cottages look like heavenly retreats from the city to come and the ...
Stockholm - more winter action
This is a top pick! ... in origin. Hence the large bodily frames, blue eyes and blonde/red hair found in these regions in more modern times. Nowadays Sweden is very politically experimental and progressive, invariably seen as a 'neutral' country and who often act as mediators in ...
Ice Hotel - more photos
This is a top pick! To view larger versions, click the Slideshow links below. cheers! Old Rossian Proverb If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes. Sign on pub ...
A Swedish wedding
This is a top pick! We arrived in Lund the lovely little university town of Lund, in the south of Sweden as part of the Australian contingent to the wedding of Australian born Neil and Swedish Viktoria. Lund is small and very pretty, famous for its university, and for its ...
Swinging in Sweden
This is a top pick! ... IKEA magazine.... yes friends Jay was going to land of Swedish Meatballs, IKEA and Swedish Massages! London 2 days before departure to Sweden. With Coxy and the boys swinging into London, I decided to greet them through the big steel custom doors, ...