Clarion Sign Stockholm

... see even a portion of them. Instead, we took in the scarce sunlight and explored both sides of town, the posh part in the East, and the cool labourer part South of the water. Anna did her best to tell us about castles that burned down in the 14th century and canon balls that remained lodged in buildings. We had lunch in a nice dark, dank cellar and saw the best view of Stockholm, just before the last light deserted us. We then treated ourselves to some hot choc, and went home to ...

... 1628 and was supposed to help the King fight his cousin to free Sweden. This ship sailed for 20 minutes before strong gusts of winds blew it over and caused the ship to sink. It was a combination of the ship being a bit too narrow in the base, the two levels of cannons and the wrong kind of rocks in the base to stabilize the boat. I find it kind of funny that they actually have model exhibits showing the ship capsizing. Overall this is one impressive ship and I guess ...

... is a very nice view of old town, Gamla Stan. I cross the bridge next. Riddarholm Skyrkam has some serious history. It was built in the 1300s and has entombed most of the royalty since. I explore the old, windy streets of the medieval city. <br><br>A guy from the hostel and I meet up with an expat who shows us his favorite bar in Old Town. He mostly knows expat type bars ...

... past it twice but didn't realise as the sign and the address were both wrong. Oh well - at least it turned out that it was like a camp ground and we had a 2 person room. Cooked tea (delicious rice &amp; pesto veg - effectively using up the last of our huge pantry), watched 'inside deep throat' which Margret and david thought was a top watch and went to bed. We awoke to a rainy Stockholm day and went ...

... on Wednesday and Friday. But luckily there's plenty of pubs around us so we can have a pint or two at happy hour. We've found a few around here that we like to frequent; great ambiance, cask ales, cheaper (relatively) pints, and now that we're in the middle of football season its great to watch some of the Champions League games. I've also taken a liking to some of the neighborhoods to the north of us including Camden and the ...

We're just waking up from our first night in Stockholm. We scored on the hostel, a building first built in the 1600s that is surrounded by other buildings built in the 1600s in the winding, cobblestone 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 ...

... there is one interesting photo which has a deer in it. Accomodation was pretty hard to find as it was high season so we ended up in a place about 10mins train ride outside of city centre. We were surrounded by bushland and yes...even Deer. We couldn't believe it. From Stockholm we jumped on an overnight Ferry (15hrs) and headed to Helsinki.

... bonnes auberges au Danemark. Je devais donc me taper 17 heures de train, comprenant 4 transferts et passer 3 douanes (les douaniers viennent nous voir pendant le trajet du train... facile!) !! Entre chacun des transferts j'avais 10-20 minutes pour me retrouver. Ouf!!! Une epreuve mes amis!!! A la gare d'Amsterdam j'etais un brin presse disons et la madame du guichet m'a fait ch%#%! solide! Elle trouvait que je n'etais pas organise, que je ...

Decided to spend the day at Skansen today. Skansen is Stockholm's most popular tourist attraction; it's essentially an open air museum and a 'miniature Sweden'. Recommended by the guide books as 'essential' and by my trusty Swedish friend Jonna-Noe as 'random', I felt the need to go. Apparently the best way to get to Skansen is by the ferry which runs from Slussen. I rocked up to Slussen at 10ish, as it's 5 minutes away from my hotel anyway hahaha. No-one knew anything about a ...

... close in we headed back to the Wijk Familijien ranch for some sporadic moose hunting. Obviously summer is a lot different to the blanket of winter snow recently witnessed and these woods have a lovely, soft and ageless air to them that always reminds me of a pleasant fairytale forest scene. Such a great location, even with Balder crashing through it ahead of you ...