Country Info
- Stockholm
- Capital
- Swedish Krona (SEK)
- Currency
- 8,875,053
- Population
- SE
- Country Code
Stockholm Slideshow
Stockholm
Travel Blogs from Stockholm, Sweden
The first non-english speaking country
... the ship. It then promptly sank. What an embarrassing way to sink the greatest war ship of the time. We are milling around Stockholm again today, walking through old town and all the little squares, and trying to find a way to Poland for tomorrow. We ...
city of islands
... time. It was a very large place, they also had a zoo of Nordic animals as well and it took awhile to see everything. Stockholm has been a very family oriented place to visit so far as well. Other places like Amsterdam I did not seem to see very many ...
Stockholm!
... night! We got up fairly early the next day, as we only had until 3pm before we had to catch the ferry to Helsinki. Stockholm is such a nice city! All of the buildings had so much history to them, whereas in Oslo it all looked relatively new. We ...
1st Day in Sweden
... first Swedish word "utfart" it means Exit. Our first stop Vasteras (Voosteros). Sixty miles west of Stockholm. Beautiful small town, cobble stone streets around the town square. Bicycles everywhere. We shopped in the open ...
Resfeber
Vanlig måndag hemma hos päronen och ett avsnitt Cityakuten! Börjar nog få lite resfeber men det har hittills bara resulterat i total inaktivitet.... Borde göra XXX, men tror jag tar en tupplur istället. Kommer iaf vara fräsch och ...
Swedish Style in Stockholm
... ; As we waited for it to heat up we went for a walk up the nearby mountain to a castle tower thing with views over Stockholm (which isn’t really very big). Anyway we went back and the sauna was ready. So we stripped down to swimmers and ...
Trains and Planes
... . They had apparently overbooked the plane and were willing to pay someone 250 Euro and put them on the next flight into Stockholm if they were flexible on their travel plans. If Joana and Thomas hadn’t been picking me up I would have ...
Stockholm exploration, day 1
... subway station, carved out of solid bedrock. That particular station was decorated with remains of an ancient civilization, hidden under Stockholm! A clueless tourist might even believe that :) 6:30 pm - took a boat tour around canals of Stockholm. Then ...
Swedish meatballs
... . Today is looking to be bright and sunny so I want to try and take different boat tours out to some of the islands. Stockholm has a much more older feel than other cities such as Oslo which were a bit more modern. Everywhere you look you can find ...
Stockholm, Sweden
We started the cruise by boarding in Stockholm, Sweden. Before leaving on the cruise we visited the Vasa Museum, a maritime museum, that displys the original ship, Vasa, that sank in 1628. The buildings in Gamla ...
Taking Stock of Stockholm
... The ship is famous because it was built too top heavy and capsized within 20 minutes of starting it's maiden voyage in the Stockholm archipelago after a small gust of wind toppled it. It was raised in the 1960s and has since been restored. Very ...
All Pride, All the Time
This is a top pick! ... documentary and I'm glad to hear they've continued to show it in repeats in the UK. So, wandering through the streets of Stockholm I stumbled upon the Dans Museet. It's a museum dedicated to the performing arts! And it was free! Yay! After the QBoy ...
Freezing in Svenska
when we flew into an airport outside stockholm rachael bumped into a guy she went to uni with in lund so we dumped our stuff at our uber cool hostel (more on that later) and went out to dinner. apparently it was pay day so it was really busy. it was quite ...
First Day in the Land of the Hottness
This is a top pick! ... me and we started chatting. We had great convo and it turns out they'll be at the party tonight, too. I nabbed some pictures around Stockholm, but not a tonne. Kevin, I took a picture of a Kate Ryan poster. She has a concert here, but it's on the day I ...
Sweden
... 8217;s side were both Swedish immigrants. I am ½ Swedish. There was an interesting twist to our visit to Sweden. We were scheduled to dock in Stockholm. After we boarded the Eurodam we were advised that we would not dock in Stockholm. Instead we anchored ...
Hi Madelen
We finally arrived in Stockholm about three hours late. Madelen thought sure we were lost and missing. (we ARE country folk you know) She was about ready to go to the police because the airport wouldn't tell her anything!! We were really glad to see her ...
Förberedelser
Har nu nästan allt jag har tänkt att ha med mig. Det enda som är kvar är en extern hårddisk för backup som jag tänker köpa nu. Det blir en LaCie Rugged som är gjord att tåla oöm behandling. Förhoppningsvis ska den överleva att åka med i det ...
New Starts With No Sense Of Direction
... year career went from one ground-breaking project to another, from her beginnings as a young furniture designer in a pre-war Stockholm to a big name in California’s architectural scene during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. The furniture is wicked, every ...
Lovely Stockholm
... nbsp; The ship is going like at no spead through the archipelago that is the only way in (and out) of the city of Stockholm. Beautiful homes along cliffs and small cottages dotted these island as we made our way in. We Docked and because of ...
Stockholm: On A Boat!
... was just getting started. Once we got to our cabin, we could see the sun begin to rise; we must have been walking during Stockholm's few hours of summer darkness. We started off the next day with a hearty hostel breakfast. We then walked up to ...
Hej da Sweden
Hard to believe the week in Sweden is over.. I don't think we ended up recovering from jet lag, but we had an awesome time. I think its time to leave now because like Evanston, everyone is starting to know our names. I would definitely come back to ...
Surprise in Stockholm!
... she tried to rub it in my face that she was going to a Mika concert, I still played it cool. But I flew to Stockholm Thursday afternoon and Weber and I devised a plan to surprise Lindz. And let me tell you, she was completely shocked and ...
Supermarket Shopping!
... day on the bumpiest train ever from Copenhagen (never got travel sick on a train before!) and then had to travel the Stockholm metro and stock up on supplies. Fortunately Simon even remembered where the super market was so he went shopping whilst I ...
Katarina Hissen, Globen, National Museum
It snows. We went for a walk and saw Katarina Kyrken (church), the nice view to the city from Södermalm, the great view from Katarina Hissen (elevator), the Soderhallarna market, the spheric Globen arena and by night the Fine Arts National Museum. ...
Hej då Stockholm
... "Robinson Crusoe" (because it's on a "deserted" island), I ran into 2 other cachers. The first one was a guy from Stockholm. We chatted for awhile and he was interested to hear I was from Oregon. He wants to come to Oregon to search for ...
Hagaparken, Nordiska museum, Junibacken
We went by bus to the Hagaparken, where we visited the Butterfly house. When going to Stockholm centre, we made a stop the take a look in the (round) Public library, a project ended in 1928 by Gunnar Asplund. Then we paid 60 kr each adult (one of the few ...
Sleepless in Stockholm
... . My train doesn't leave for another four hours, but I felt like writing from our fifth and final stop on our grand European adventure: Stockholm, Sweden! It's been one heck of a trip so far, but it's not over til it's over. In exactly 12 hours, I will ...
Introduction + Day 1
... we wanted to see. As always, we couldn't see everything we planned ... but we did see most of it. Some websites about Stockholm: Culture, Official visitors guide, For kids Note: The photos were not edited (straight from the camera). One or two, do have ...