Stockholm (Sweden)

...from a week-long holiday in Stockholm (which provided me with a lovely excuse to ignore my University reading list for a while) and will now give you the chance to share and enjoy… I visited Stockholm with my mum. We didn’t know much about Sweden to start with, or have many opportunities to look stuff up before going, but had a variety of reasons for wanting to go. I, being about to start a Classics degree, wanted to go somewhere I was unlikely ...
...in the Royal Armoury in Stockholm until January, which I was keen to see. There’s also the opening credits to Monty Python and the Holy Grail… So Stockholm was decided upon, and my mother duly booked us flights and a hotel. I was away on a Summer School at the time, so I can’t comment on the ease with which she did this or the exact prices of our flights etc, but I do know she went neither for the ultra-cheap options nor for anything very fancy, ...

Muswell 12.09.2004 · Read full review
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I went to Stockholm in the last weekend of January 2005, here are my thoughts. We arrived at the main Arlanda airport which is modern, clean and eerily quiet and sailed through passport control. Within 15 minutes of landing we'd picked up our bags and were waiting for the Arlanda express into the city. At £15, this train is pricey but it's about the same as the Heathrow express. You can take a bus at half the price and twice the time or take a taxi ...
...50% of shops in Stockholm are designer homeware places, then the other 50% are cafes. And in Gamla Stan, that's got to be more like 80%. The best one we found was the Konditorai that is reputedly the oldest in the city and is found in the little square at the bottom of Vasterlanggattan. We had a Lax (Salmon) Bagel and tea from a big Samovar in the middle of the room. Chandeliers and paintings of long dead Swedish Kings & Queens adorn the room. We ...

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...the places I've been to, Stockholm is the nicest yet. Everything looks beautiful. Even the Grafitti has a nice edge to it (i dunno how!) I flew to Stockholm with Ryanair. Ryanair must like Stockholm because there are two airports tochoose from. Vasteras to the west ar Skvasta to the south. We flew to Vasteras. The airport is nice, small (like all the ryanair ones) but modern and nicer than hectic London ones or other major international airports. ...
...that the train journey to Stockholm is very cheap and very stunning. You glide through forests and over lakes in the modern sleek trains. Well worth flying out to Vasteras. Swedish trains are amazing. The train was schedules to arrive at 12:53, and we arrived at Stockholm at 12:53. Stunning compared to the UK. This was not a one off either. That same week, my friend went from Oslo to Stcokholm by train, and it arrived at exactly the right time. How ...

mr_kipling 14.01.2005 · Read full review
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...raised in a suburb to Stockholm but now I live in Gothenburg. This is my to-do’s and not to-do’s on Stockholm. So, we do not have ice bears walking down the street. We don’t dance around in folk-costumes, tap-dancing with clogs. We’re not all blond and blue-eyed. In fact, Stockholm has grown up into any western world city at all. We have big shopping streets, Mc Donald’s in every corner, museums and suburb after suburb. So, there’s much to see - ...
...in the actual city of Stockholm just catch the tube and go to “Centralen”. All tube-lines pass here so you cannot miss it. Make sure to follow signs towards “Sergels torg” or you will end up at our domestic train-station (nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t where you were going). You will come up from the underground and be standing next to the place that Swedes thinks of Stockholm the most, “SERGELS TORG”. Sergels torg isn’t really anything special ...

KarinJonsson 23.05.2004 · Read full review
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Stockholm – Venice of the North. Hang on I thought that was Bruges, no Amsterdam? How many are there? Whatever it is, it’s great. I’ve recently returned from Stockholm after a very enjoyable three-night break. All right, so it’s freezing outside. Wear a scarf, hat, gloves and a warm coat and you’re over that problem. Alternatively keep popping into the numerous coffee-houses that abound throughout the whole city and ...
...didn’t use public transport. However, Stockholm seems to have a very complete transport system. It has a tube system, buses, trams, boats and taxis. The only time we did use the train was when we caught the dedicated train from the airport to the centre. 20 minutes each way, directly from under the airport, £20 return. What a great service. A longer trip than Heathrow to Paddington yet cheaper, and people think Stockholm is expensive!! (Quick ...

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...a person who goes to Stockholm to go shopping, but that does not mean that it is a boring place to shop. Quite on the contrary. Even though Stockholm is Sweden’s capital, shopping is not a particularly rushed experience and it is easy to ignore all the Stockholmers rushing around the way people tend to do in bigger cities. If in the town centre, the main shopping streets are Hamngatan and Drottninggatan. This area is where you can find the ...
...check out IKEA (in the Stockholm area) and H&M (Hennes och Mauritz). The shop Indiska usually sells weird and wonderful things at acceptable prices. If you like Swedish music (Wannadies, Cardigans, ABBA, Roxette, Neneh Cherry etc) you could easily find records not available or rare abroad. There are a few large record shops, like Skivakademien on Sergels Torg, but most are smaller and they sell a larger variety of older records. Hotorget has a food ...

mariesimone 14.02.2001 · Read full review
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I lived in Stockholm for about 18 months. I'd say possibly the best 18 months of my life. I was a little worried about moving abroad as a 21 year oid. Not only having to take care of myself for the first time but having to survive all that in a foreign country. I was pleasently surprised at how friendly everyone was, and the support they gave me. People love to practice their English with you, at first it's great everywhere you go people will speak ...
...especially true. Living in stockholm you get the best of both worlds. You have the vibrant city life but also within 5-10 mins you can be out in open countryside, or on a small Island where the hussle bussle of the city seems 1 million miles away. If you go i reccomened gettibg out into the archipeligo, beautifully stunning. All of stockhom and it's surrounding area can be accessed by an excellent public transport system. The busses and tunnelbahn ...

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Stockholm has been capital for swedish since 13th century, and still today is home for over 760 000 people and Stockholms urban areas population is over 1.2 milj. people. Stockholm is situated east coast of Sweden. Typical temptures during year are: winter: -5 to +3 C summer: +20 to + 27C Old part of city is "Gamla Stan" (Old town) and it still got its original medieval street net from 13th century. Specially from "Gamla Stan" you can found wonderful ...
...Stockholm is full of different museums. My favorite is Vasa Museum what is now with the reconstruction of the missing parts of the Vasa Ship. GO TO SEE BEFORE IS GONE!!!! (Ship was over 400 yr's old, if I remember right and smell in museum was...welll not nicest ever but ship was stunning!!!!) (+++++++) In Stockholm there is couple zoo's and themepark. And King of Sweden King Carl XVI Gustaf got homepalace where he live with queen Silvia and crown ...

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Stockholm - what a beautiful city ! I have visited Stockholm twice for short breaks & I've fallen in love with it ! The city is actually many islands, so everywhere there is water. The summer days are long and warm - Stockholm is the Summer Night City of ABBA's song. The air is clean & fresh, the city is safe & friendly - it is literally a "breath of fresh air". There are lots of museums, plenty of good shops and great boat trips around the islands. ...

maryjo 29.08.2000 (06.02.2001) · Read full review
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We went to stockholm just before christmas, great time to go, we had the snow we wanted, but unlike Britain, stockholm did not grind to a halt! We got to the country very cheaply, we took advantage of ryan air's deals and flew for a penny both ways. Our hotel was an equivalent to a travel lodge in style, but we got excellent service. We were also give passes which gave us free entry into many museums, free tram and train journeys and some boat cruises. ...
...for them on the net. The city was beautiful, loads of pubs and nightlife. Everything was so clean and fresh. The christmas markets were lovely. The only downside was the cost of eating and drinking, unknown to us before we went the gov charges 25% tax on top of everything you buy, like vat but added on top of your final bill. Would recommend to anyone who likes culture and history, not suitable for those looking for a stag destination, drink is expensive ...

lizzy11 03.02.2004 · Read full review
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