Stockholm, Sweden Travel Blogs

Sverige
Jun 9, 2006 (10 photos)

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 ...

High stakes in the Swedish capital.
May 31, 2009 (48 photos)

High stakes in the Swedish capital.

Bonne St-Jean!
Jun 24, 2007 (1 photos)

... je suis alle faire le tour de Stockholm sur un bateau de touristes, 2h plus tard je connaissais toute l'histoire de cette ville! Stockholm me decoit un peu... malgre tous ses attraits elle ne reussi pas a me charmer. Il manque un petit quelque chose dans ...

Sweden - Ukraine Match... and it's JUNE!!!
Jun 1, 2008 (5 photos)

... drop our stuff off at a hotel that her friend has graciously fixed for us and head downtown to the central square in Stockholm where all the diehard supporters are gathered before the game.  Once again, EVERYONE knows Malin, and when she introduces me ...

Detox, rehab, water, please!!!
Jun 2, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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 and ...

Childhood latitudes.
Dec 5, 2006 (3 photos)

... right up there in my childhood latitudes. But before heading for the Baltic's, I spent a few days working from the Stockholm office of the company I'm hired. An office I know so well after working there for close to four years between 1995 and ...

Stockholm, Sweden
May 19, 2008 (24 photos)

... the city is beautiful and has lots of things to see, but Karla and I had seen enough art galleries and churches already, Stockholm had a theme park like Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, but we already went to Tivoli Gardens. For the most part we just wandered ...

Asia misses out on cities with most beautiful . .
Jun 15, 2008 (4 photos)

... Moscow (Russia) 6. Los Angeles (California, the U.S.) 7. Varna (Bulgaria) 8. Buenos Aires (Argentina) 9. Copenhagen (Denmark) 10. Stockholm (Sweden) And here is how Travelers Digest rates the top 10 cities (does this sound to you like some pervy ...

What chefs do when they are bored
Nov 20, 2008 (4 photos)

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 ...

I'm in a place I didn't even know I was going
Jul 21, 2007

... in heaven, as opposed to milk which is fine but so not the same. If I sound slightly orgasmic in my descriptions of Stockholm, you would be right, I have fallen deeply in love with this city. The food, the people, the architecture, the fact that Stockholm ...

Les joies des dortoirs
Jun 23, 2007

Ok des fois c'est moins l'fun les dortoirs... je me suis fait reveille en plein milieu de la nuit par une bande d'irrespectueux qui se pensaient seuls au monde! Ca parlait fort, ca criait presque. Des americains! Le croyez vous?! A part ca la ville est ...

World's Biggest IKEA
Jan 30, 2006 (2 photos)

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 ...

Petit train va loin
Jun 22, 2007 (1 photos)

... a 10h50 et mon train partait a 10h57! Tout etait regle a la minute pres. J' avais decide de me rendre directement a Stockholm en Suede puisque je n'avais pas trouve de bonnes auberges au Danemark. Je devais donc me taper 17 heures de train, comprenant 4 ...

Good Intentions
Jan 31, 2006 (6 photos)

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 ...

Stockholm syndrome - hijack my heart
Jan 15, 2006 (29 photos)

... lanes a more feasible sightseeing option. Ains and I did a walking tour compliments of the indispensable TimeOut Stockholm guide, taking us past buildings dating from every period from the 13th to 18th centuries. Highlights included the main ...

Stockholm syndrome
Jul 31, 2006 (10 photos)

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 quite ...

Stockholm Madness
May 29, 2008 (15 photos)

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
Jan 23, 2006 (22 photos)

... , but I suppose I'm getting used to it with exhibitions in this part of the world. Oh well. A final highlight of my Stockholm frolics was a trip to Globen's big dome to see an Ice Hockey match. Coo-ol! Hockey is a national past-time and the ...

Stockholm Syndrome
Aug 31, 2007 (61 photos)

... quickly grabbing some cash we jumped in their car (sadly a VW not a Volvo) and shot off towards Stockholm. Well what an introduction to Sweden!! Within 5 minutes we were being diverted off the motorway by a police road block guarding a car on fire on ...

Rain and Bridges and Bears - Oh my!
Nov 5, 2005 (4 photos)

... was having a Natasha-esque moment and starting to think there was a problem with my visa (not that i need one for Sweden). Once i got into Stockholm I dropped my bag off at the hostel and set off to explore. I was aiming for a particular sight but kept ...

Stockholm - moose on the loose
Jan 16, 2006 (25 photos)

... comment on that after you've had some time to defrost and think mate? Until Munso - adieu. Next entry -> On Stockholm's picturesque islands, hunting moose and traces of the Vikings. Where Darwin went wrong It took a moose to remind me ...

Gallivare gallivare is located in northern ...
Jul 30, 2001 (1 photos)

... second night. This was outside our budget, but when we have "visitors" our budget has to be broken! Highlights of Stockholm included: Eating reindeer meat - after we had heard so much about reindeer farming from our Sami friend we just had to taste ...

Sailing Stockholm's summery shores
Aug 21, 2006 (36 photos)

... profit. Not that the extra cash ever ensures an on-time flight, so after midnight that Friday evening I arrived at a now familiar Stockholm Centralen and wandered down to the nearby waterfront. A boat would be around here somewhere - I just had to find it ...

Knowing Me, Knowing You
May 23, 2006

Draft

Valhalla
Aug 8, 2004 (25 photos)

... wife, Svetlana, cooked me dinner (Swedish meatballs!) and gave me my own apartment to sleep in. Yes, I'm spoiled. I checked out Stockholm, including the Vasa Museum with the 300 year old ship they brought up from the bottom of the harbor. That was pretty ...

On the road again...
May 5, 2005

... being dusted off and we have enough Pepto to keep us going for the next 4 weeks. This time our trip will take us to Stockholm, Amsterdam, Paris, the French Riviera, Normandy, back to Paris and home. We imagine this leg of the trip will be a little more ...

Skulking wi da Swedes
Aug 21, 2005 (24 photos)

So we sailed across the Baltic yesterday on a stunning day and floated up thru the beautiful archipelago to Stockholm. Only a few hours there stomping around checking out the sites of the gorgeous old town on the islands before we had to make a hasty ...

Another Day of Crusty Clothes
Jan 29, 2006 (2 photos)

Today was a blissfully boring day. We flew into Stockholm from Helsinki on an early flight and as we are kind of tired of traveling around so much, decided to stay put for the day. Our check-in at Helsinki airport was interesting as the lady behind the ...

Nobel
Jul 11, 2008

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Heavens Capital
Aug 2, 1999 (6 photos)

... was especially since I hadn't had a shower since Prague. After our break here we got back in the car and drove towards Stockholm. Realising we weren't going to make it the full distance today we embarked on a pointless tour through the country back-roads ...