Stockholm holiday, July 2005
This time we took a six night city break staying in the Hotel Diplomat
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a comfortable hotel in an early 20th century building, with a couple of
wonderful manual lifts (elevators) - one with a seat! There was a
direct
flight to Stockholm from Edinburgh, but we had to travel back via
Copenhagen.
Nybroviken in the evening light; lovely late evenings
at that time
of year |
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Looking across Nybroviken to the Hotel Diplomat |
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Boats near Skeppsholmen - there are boats everywhere in
Stockholm |
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A narrow street in Gamla Stan, the old town |
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Looking towards the parliament building from the royal
palace |
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Strömbron - with some bedrock showing in the
channel, and some
crazy sculpture (a hand and a nose) floating near the bridge |
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The Vasa museum building - complete with masts! There
are a couple
of museum ships in the harbour as well |
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The Vasa, capsized and sank in Stckholm harbour in
1628, and now
preserved in a dry dock |
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The head of Nybroviken again, in daylight |
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Stadshuset, the city hall and embarkation point for
boats on Lake
Mälaren |
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We took a boat trip out through the archipelago - it is
a long way
to the open Baltic sea, visible here at Sandhamn |
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The palace guard on its way along the streets from
barracks to the
palace, complete with brass band |
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Lake Mälaren from the island of
Björkö, where there was a very
early settlement (Birka) |
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An interesting church with open-air seating, and large
doors
opening onto the chancel |
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One of the many replica old boats seen around Birka |
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The harbour and museum at Birka |
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And another Birka replica - we saw a family out rowing
this one |
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Note the outboard motor hidden under a rag on the side
of this
one! |
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Street sculpture in Stockholm |
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The weather was generally pretty good - only one day was
really wet. We
had plenty time for the boat trips, though John would have quite liked
another half day to hire a sailing dinghy in the harbour!