Scandinavia Trip: Day Two

I convinced my good friend Helena, who functions as a local travel writer in Stockholm, to skip operate and display me about her favorite destinations all over Stockholm. We took 1 of the open-air boats in the docks upcoming to Gamla Stan and took a ride in between the quite a few islands that make up Stockholm.

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From right here we cruised up coming to the Royal Palace, the central museums, and finally got off at Djurgarden, the island residence to Stockholm’s greatest park, an amusement park, and a recreated village of previous Sweden. We grabbed an afternoon drink at Josefina, one particular of Stockholm’s most “in” bar/lounge that overlooks the bay. It’s commonly packed immediately after do the job with the city’s company elite and fashionistas, but mainly because the up coming day was a national vacation — Midsummer — we had pretty much the whole lounge to ourselves.

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We upcoming hopped on a bus to Vaxholm, a little, boating island north of the city, exactly where Helena was meeting her dad and mom and heading into the countryside by means of schooner. This island is 1 of the most important launching factors for boats heading into the archipelago (the 1000's of islands surrounding the city) and is regarded for its quaint houses and nautical past. I had a traditional herring dinner, saw Helena and her loved ones off, and took a bus home as a light rain started to fall and the temperature dropped into the fifties. (Why did I pack all brief-sleeved shirts and only one particular warm shirt?)

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