After a morning touring the museums, it’s time for my favorite part, shopping! NK is a luxury department store in the heart of Stockholm. It reminds me of the stores back home like Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Ave with similar high end designers. Ferdinand Boberg, Sweden’s leading Art Nouveau architect, designed the building. He […]
After spending the morning seeing the Vasa Museet, we headed over to Skansen. Skansen (the Sconce) is the first open-air museum and zoo in Sweden. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833–1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era. On our way to Skansen, […]
Today was a gorgeous day in Stockholm and the perfect day to go sightseeing! Our first stop was the Nordiska Museet and the Vasa Museet. The Vasa Museum (Swedish: Vasamuseet) is a maritime museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Located on the island of Djurgården, the museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that […]
After a 5 hour train ride from Eslöv we arrived in Stockholm. Navigating our way through the train station and metro was easier than I expected. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in Scandinavia, with 905,184 people living in the municipality, approximately 1.4 million in the urban area, and a […]
Today was the arrival of our first house guest from the US, Linda!!! Daniel and Linda were good friends when I met Daniel. They had a sweet brother and sister relationship and had known each other for many years. She is sweet as can be and generous to a fault. She opened her home to […]