Stockholm
Posted in Architecture, Baltic Cruise, Trips at 12:00 on 3 June 2020
Stockholm really is a beautiful city – helped by all that water it is built on and over.
The coach from the ship dropped us off near the Riksdag (see previous post) and opposite the Opera House:-
We first went for a wander towards the more commercial area but managed to find a park. It had a statue of Linnaeus:-
On the way in we’d passed a great looking building that I thought we would never find on our own as the coach had seemed to go a long way past it. However on going further we looped around and there it was, the Drama Theatre:-
I couldn’t get far enough back to get the whole frontage in so this had to do:-
Such ornate lampposts though:-
This turned out not to be too far from where the caoch had stopped! A couple of minutes walk. This garden area was nearby and you can look across to the Royal Palace beyond:-
Tags: Architecture, Linnaeus, statues, Stockholm, Stockholm Drama Theatre, Stockholm Opera House, Stockholm Palace
Ian Sales
4 June 2020 at 19:10
When were you over here?
jackdeighton
4 June 2020 at 19:47
Ian,
It was in May last year. We were only in Stockholm for a matter of hours. Barely time to see the sights. It’s a lovely city though.
Ian Sales
5 June 2020 at 17:09
I was still settling in then. I bumped into someone on one of those Baltic cruises on a flight to Copenhagen. He explained he and his wife were visiting Copenhagen, Tallinn, St Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm and back to Copenhagen. “We’ve got plenty of roubles and euros,” he said. “You’ll need more currencies than that,” I pointed out. They were a pair of retirees from Australia.
jackdeighton
5 June 2020 at 19:23
Ian,
I had some Euros but I’d also taken the precaution of getting one of those credit cards where foreign purchases don’t accrue excessive charges, only the exchange rate on the day you use it.