Sweden
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Off-the-Beaten-Path Sweden: Industrial Eskilstuna
More Details: Off-the-Beaten-Path Sweden: Industrial EskilstunaA year ago, I went to Sweden with the idea of spending a little more time in Stockholm than a one-day cruise ship stop allowed me years before. I really like Stockholm and its different neighborhoods, its surroundings (water!), and its old town. But, as part of this short trip, I also felt the urge…
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A Great Day Trip from Stockholm: Uppsala
More Details: A Great Day Trip from Stockholm: UppsalaA long weekend in Stockholm sounded like fun. And off I went last October with a college friend, John. While Stockholm was the focus, I have always wanted to see something of ‘rural’ Sweden: lakes, charming homes, and lots of green. At least, that is how I envisioned it. So, once in Sweden, I was…
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Around Katarina Church in Stockholm
More Details: Around Katarina Church in StockholmWhile I like seeing the main sights of any city I visit, I also enjoy walking around aimlessly and seeing what I discover. Katarina Church (Katarina Kyrka) in Stockholm (Södermalm) was one of those discoveries. Perhaps if I had done my research ahead of time, the church and its neighborhood would have ended on a…
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Stockholm’s City Hall – Great Vantage Point
More Details: Stockholm’s City Hall – Great Vantage PointBefore my recent trip to Southeast Asia, I took advantage of a cheap airfare to spend a long weekend in Stockholm. I had been there a while back on a day stop from a cruise with my family. It was summer time and it allowed us to get a flavor of this city by walking…
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The “First Cousins” Capitals: Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm
More Details: The “First Cousins” Capitals: Copenhagen, Oslo and StockholmIt has been an interesting exercise to try to think of the Scandinavian countries and come up with a good and succinct outline of what makes them different from each other without requiring a degree in history, architecture, and other similar fields. So I decided to not be that ambitious and limit this to taking…
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City Life – Street Scenes of Stockholm
More Details: City Life – Street Scenes of StockholmI wrote about Stockholm being a great city to visit in summer time (as probably any part of Sweden!). As I said then, it is likely a charming city well-worth visiting any time of the year. But summertime not only offers warmth and longer daylight hours. It offers better opportunities to observe life happen as…
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Stockholm: A City One with the Water
More Details: Stockholm: A City One with the WaterIt is a cold day at home and, somehow, instead of going for warm, I look at pictures of my cruise in the Baltic. But, in my defense, it was June there. Still not tropical weather but my eyes and mind wandered to my pictures of my stop in Stockholm, Sweden. And what I take…