Hej Stockholm!

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. That trip to Stockholm was my birthday present. We left Vienna on Friday morning and from the Stockholm airport we went to the city by train. We decided to walk from the central station to our hotel and that was already sightseeing. We had a coffee at one of the big market halls and checked in our hotel around midday.

In the afternoon we visited the Nationalmuseum, promenaded on Skeppsholmen and Kastellholmen islands an took the ferry to the Vasa Museum. I've been to Stockholm 1989 but one thing I remember well is this impressive ship. The museum displays the only almost fully intact 17th century ship that has ever been salvaged. If you are at Stockholm, you shold visit that.

The next day we spent at picturesque Gamla stan (the old town). We saw the royal castle, the Storkyrkan (the cathedral) as well as the two main streets Österlånggatan und Västerlånggatan. In the evening we had excellent swedish cuisine for dinner. Later that night we went to Stockholm's number one hotel (the Grand Hôtel) for a drink.

On the last day of our short trip we booked a boat trip to the skerry area. Very impressive but also a little bit cold. A walk to the central station :-) marked the endpoint of a beautiful vacation at the so-called 'Venice-of-the-nort'.