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Stockholm, day III

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This is the last post about a trip to Stockholm. These were the first and the second day.

The last day before our way back home across the bay started with nice breakfast (I love hotel breakfasts!). We walked to the city centre without a special plan and visited shops that seemed interesting and had a coffee and so on. We also saw August Strindberg´s last home which had been turned into a little museum. The jugend house was brand new in the beginning of the last century when Strindberg moved there.

Of course we had to see Stockholm´s public library as well, because it ´s relatively nearby. I had heard many things about that building because it´s remarkable in it´s mixture of classical and modern (international) style. The library was finished the same year than the building I live in and I could sense that from the details (and of course the whole form). I really appreaciate these buildings from the 20´s we have quite a few that are more minimalistic than jugend/art nouveau and more mystical/classical than pure functionalism.

All in all, the trip was fantastic! It created a space away from all the worries that multitasking between jobs and projects had created.

 

Stockholm, day I

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We arrived to Stockholm 7 a.m. Had breakfast at Freys Hotel because it was the only place I could remember that serves good breakfast. After breakfast a walk along Drottninggatan (picture 1 & 2). It was chilly but sunny. We came across the Adolf Fredrik´Church and happened to find the graves of Elias Martin and Olof Palme (3 & 4) We saw the interior of the church as well. It was beautiful, small and gustavian. Then we dropped the luggage to the hotel, it was a posh östermalmian hotel (the best deal though). After the drop-off we continued walking because of the nice weather. Then we wandered around and about the Royal Library (5,6 & 7) and continued to Östermalmshallen (8, 9, & 10). The market hall with it´s perfection seemed too good to be true. Then we spotted another lovely little church, it was Hedvig Eleonora´s (11). At that point we realised we had walked across half of the town and felt cheery and decided to walk all the way to the Ethnographic Museum we were heading. On our way there we saw many things (12, 13, 14, 15). At the Ethnographic Museum we had a fika and saw the Vodou/Voodoo exhibition. It was interesting but that place somehow made feel (again this time) a little uncomfortable because of the content and it´s colonialist underpinnings. I am much more at ease in the art museums though. After the museum visit we were exhausted and took a bus to centre. Strolled a little in the NK department store and at a bookstore and then headed back to the hotel. We barely had energy to find some food because we had been up all day since 5.30 a.m.

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