After short, lovely train ride, we arrived in Stockholm. After checking into our hotel, we went for a walk around town. This batch includes Drottninggatan, a long pedestrian street, sites along the way, some of the art down in one of the metro stations, and various attractive vistas…
This batch includes more prominent historical/cultural features, including the Royal Palace, government buildings; in and around the Old Town, including the narrowest street, and other cool stuff…
In Gamla Stan, one finds the Nobel Prize Museum, so I went. Interesting collection of items, but could have been so much better – explaining the subjects, the people, their discoveries, and their impacts…
More pix of my walk back to the hotel…
The next day we went to visit Stockholm City Hall, an impressive building with an interesting history. For example the “Blue Hall” is basically brick red, why? It features paintings by a Prince, and an amazing “Golden Room” of amazing mosaics. This is where the Nobel Prize party takes place every year…!
Then, we power walked to ferry to go out to Kungliga Djurgården and visit the Viking Museum…
Next, we went to the ABBA Museum…
ML went shopping, and I went to the Swedish Royal Palace. Again, overwhelmed, although it ain’t much from the outside. This batch just includes the Royal Apartments…
Still in the Royal Palace, this batch includes two more museums in the basement, including the Treasury and some of Sweden’s crown jewels…
Before heading back to the hotel, I checked out a couple of antique shops in the old town…
On our last day in Sweden, we went to the Vasa Museum to see the huge ship that sunk on its maiden voyage in 1628, and stayed in the frigid and anaerobic water off Stockholm for over 300 years. Fascinating story, amazing site, great museum…
Adjacent to the Vasa Museum is the Nordic Museum, said to be the most beautiful building in Stockholm, it is the brainchild of one man, Artur Hazelius. As we were pressed for time, I only visited a couple exhibits on the lower floors…
That afternoon, we headed to the port to take a ferry (on the huge Viking Line cruise ship Gabriela). It was a beautiful evening sailing out of Sweden. An overnighter, we slept in a cabin, awakening in Finland. After a lovely breakfast, we disembarked in Helsinki…
This last batch is of the archipelago of Swedish islands we cruised through at sunset before crossing the northern Baltic Sea to Finland…
I’ll finish with one timelapse from the ship…
Tak tak.