Stockholm
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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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2016 – A Year in Review
More Details: 2016 – A Year in ReviewTo say 2016 was a strange year is understating it. It started right off the bat with a scary family health issue (which, mercifully, is much much better by now) that took us all quite by surprise. The year also had other small ‘hiccups,’ which is just life on any given year. Nevertheless, and as…
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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…
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An Imperfect Baltic Cruise Was Perfect for the Family…
More Details: An Imperfect Baltic Cruise Was Perfect for the Family…A couple of years ago, I embarked on a family trip with my mother and stepdad, my sister with her husband and teenaged kids, and my aunt and uncle. The reasons for the trip were many but we more than anything wanted a grand trip all together to give my niece and nephew a great…