We looked everywhere for a chocolate moose but couldn't find one. But we did find some interesting looking vikings.
We walked through the old town called (Gamla Stan)a island it was so beautiful. We also took a boat ride through the harbor around Stockholm. We also took a ferry ride(Djurgsrden ferry) to the Vasa Museum it has the world's only surviving 17Th -century ship and then a walk through the Nordic museum (which was disappointing) We also saw the changing of the guards at the palace.
We even found a pub with live music a 4 piece band playing American music.The band was playing in the cellar. You had to go down steep narrow stairs to the cellar where you literally were sitting among the band as it was playing. Most people were sitting around the room at long tables, when people came down the cellar stairs they just moved in tighter to make more room. People also just stood around the front of the band as they played.
The weather was so great that that we saw a few convertibles we even saw a guy walking his pig through town. The weirdest thing that we experienced was the noise the car's were making we finally figured it out they still had snow tires on. and they made a humming clicking noise.
Monday morning James left to go to Copenhagen, I had a half a day to do some shopping But I decided to go to Skansen a open air museum. It's a royal park with a zoo and living history museum. Being a Monday it wasn't busy with tourist only mothers with children. I was able to see what it was like to live in Sweden the the early days. They also had people in character but They only spoke Swedish. I took a few pictures of the animals seen in Sweden (bears, wolves and elk(moose) and reindeer. The batteries were almost dead before I got through the whole park. I really liked Stockholm the people were nice.
The whole picture album is here
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| Stockholm April 19-24 2008_1 |
1 comment:
Diana & James,
I have enjoyed reading your blogs and look forward to the next batch.:-) What a life you are having there: beers with music, castles by the ocean... You might run out of places to travel by the time you come back to the States.
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