Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweden. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2008

Sweden: Stockholm Gamla Stan

Stockholm, Sweden, we discovered, is a city of many islands. The oldest part is Gamla Stan where the residence for Swedish royalty remains today. This is the historic harbor.




Above is the plaza outside the Nobel Peace Prize museum. We stopped for a moment to check out the amazing book store. The narrow cobblestone streets in this part of town are peaceful and picturesque.




This historic Lutheran Church is beautiful inside and out.



The royal buildings have the changing of the guard daily, usually along with a band concert for the tourists on hand.



Seagulls enjoyed the attention of cruise passengers of our ship. We also passed a few bread crumbs their way.







Sweden: the fjords

Our cruise ship announced that we would be slowly working our way through the "fjords of Sweden" starting about 3 AM to approach Stockholm. We thought, "Oh boy, will that be anything like the pictures we see of the fjords of Norway?" Well, apparently not.
It reminded me, instead, of my homestate of Minnesota on those 100,000 lakes it is famous for, with their rocky shores, cabins and great fishing.

After coming in to Stockholm we headed back out in the evening.







And at last we were out to sea again.