Stockholm
We began our next journey in Stockholm. (We took an overnight ferry from Tallinn to Stockholm.) We walked around parts of the city and enjoyed the buildings and people.
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- Orpheus Well bronze sculpture in town
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- huge flea market
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- sod wall
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- National Theatre
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- chess game
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- Carl Linnaeus – father of modern taxonomy
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- “umbrellas” decorating street
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- patisserie & bakery sign
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- “Girl Making a Face” – Cronqvist
We had a tour of the Stockholm City Hall. The Nobel Awards banquet is held here every year in the “Blue Room” and the formal ball after the dinner is held in the “Golden Hall.”
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- inner courtyard of City Hall
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- entry on balcony
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- Blue Room
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- reflection
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- wall mural
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- city council chamber
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- our colorful guide
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- Golden Hall
We had a typical Swedish meal of meatballs and lingonberries.
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- meatballs & lingonberries
We continued the tour in the Old City. Colorful buildings. Sometimes residents gained space without paying tax for land by building rooms between buildings on 2nd and 3rd floors. Narrow streets.
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- Iron Boy – smallest public monument (5.9 in)
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- 2nd & 3rd floors between houses
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- narrow streets
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- St George & the Dragon
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- colorful buildings
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- rune from Viking days
We also watched the changing of the guard at the palace.
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- the guard
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- the band
Finally, we headed to our ship, boarded, and sailed toward Helsinki. Our room is the 4th window from the front of the boat on the lower level.
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- our ship
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- looking across the river
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- along the river
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- our journey
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- safety drill
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- small islands
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- more islands
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- home on island
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- looking back to city
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- among islands
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- sunset
