Hotell Anno 1647 Stockholm

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After the beautiful boat ride we walked 4 kms home again and by the time we reached home our feet could have literally dropped off. That was if we hadn't lost the key to our apartment....long story that.
Vics and Tobes were again wonderful hosts and we had a thoroughly delicious and spicy Laska! Our fave!!

Post note: Sweden is very family friendly with well present child facitlities and lifts everywhere you go. Also, Mothers and babies get to travel on buses free.

... having been to an ice bar before it was great to try, the bar, tables seats all made of ice. Even the cups were blocks of ice with a hole cut out! You had to keep drinking from diferent sides of the ice block to make sure you didnt wear one side down quicker than the other.

Oh and did i mention all the drinks were free poured... wow some of the cocktails were like rocket fuel... very nice!

... half hours to cram as much food as we could into our gullets, and by the time we left could barely walk, and ended up staggering back to our cabin for a lie down. The one good thing about this dinner was that included beer... but I would still recommend to anyone travelling across the Baltic to pack a picnic. Just about every spare space on the ferry was filled with a poker machine, and there are shops restaurants and bars around every corner. Your only refuge is your cabin, in ...

... make our way to the airport (it is one and a half hours away remember). The trip back to to the airport was quite nice as we took in quite a bit of the Swedish countryside. Stockholm was great. It is a beautiful city, clean, friendly, free of bogans and neds and uncrowded. I actually struggle to find flaw with it. And the chicks are all hot of course! It was bloody cold though which we weren't expecting. The cold weather definitely took us by surprise. I had to buy a ...

... and such. We took a walk down to the old part of town and marvelled at the tiny streets and even smaller alleys.It is a beautiful part of town and every alley or street has a restauant or pub on it. It was a beautiful walk through the old city and ended with watching the sun set over the islands. The next day we awoke and walked down to Djurgarden. It is an island that is pretty much all a park. There is an open air museum that is more like a small old village then a ...

... the locals we had success. It was a little disappointing, with the exception of the world's largest cigar, hidden away in the lower back room of the museum. We then walked/trekked and searched for a good 45 minutes for a castle. After walking down gravel road and crossing fields to our disappointment the castle was closed. In actuality even if it was open it didn't look that impressive, they call this a castle, more like an above ...

... time. But nevertheless, the Vikings travelled all over Europe, and as far away as Newfoundland and even into the Mediterranean. Next, I visited the Kon-Tiki Museum. This museum houses 2 of the vessels from Thor Heyerdahl's epic voyages. The first is the Kon-Tiki Raft itself. Made out of balsa wood, he and a small crew used it to sail in 1947 from Peru to the Tuamotu islands in the South Pacific, over the course of 101 days ...

Stockholm. This is the end of the first part of my trip, my last stop before going to Finland (which is the main reason I left Brazil). I had to take care of some practical things here, so my time with the city was really short. And my train from Oslo was already almost four hours late due to a power shortage. Then I had to find a place to do my laundry, find out how and when I could get to the Åland Islands ...

... in Sweden since they start learning English at about four years old). The train ride between Copenhagen and Stockholm was beautiful. The further north we traveled the more I realized that Sweden look a lot like where I am from (The Pacific Northwest). Large mountains, evergreen trees everywhere, and bright clear blue water was everywhere to be seen. The fact that it was raining also helped make me feel right at home.

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