Day: June 1, 2023

Dinner at Restaurant Kaffeegillet on Gamla Stan A starter of smoked salmon on toast with a spicy mustard sauce. Grubb had Swedish meatballs and said they were just as good as what his mom used to make. That’s a little bowl of lingonberries on the plate. I had a plate with three types of herring,…

Post by Ella This amazing cathedral was originally commissioned, it is thought, in the mid 13th century by Birger Jarl, founder of Stockholm. The oldest bricks that are still part of the church date to 1306. The church, St. Nicolas Church, gradually expanded and became the Stockholm cathedral. The Cathedral is the church of the…

Post by Grubb. Still on the Djurgården island, we couldn’t resist the Vasa Museum. This an immense maritime museum built around an almost fully intact 17th century 64- gun warship that sank in 1628 and was salvaged in 1961. The Vasa gives you an idea why Sweden was so great a power during the Thirty-Years…

Post by Grubb. Around noon we took the ferry from Gamla Stan to visit the Viking Museum on Djurgården Island.  I was captivated by the museum’s mapped historical timeline.  Given the extent of the three-hundred year extended Viking tour, it’s a wonder that we all don’t have a drop of that marauding Nordic blood in our veins.  And…

Post by Grubb. After our first stop in Gamla Stan where we had been awestruck by the Stockholm Cathedral (four hosannas), we cut through a plaza to go to the Nobel Museum.  When I was growing up in Chicago where my father was at the university doing his thing, my parents would throw a tree-trimming party…

Post by Ella. Gamla Stan, a small island and the venerable Old Town of Stockholm was a nice way to spend part of our first full day in Stockholm. The town dates back to the 16th century. We find the Nobel Prize Museum with a fascinating look at every winner (and things they developed or…

i can’t believe it’s June! So on a cool (57° and windy) in Stockholm… Metro to Gamla Stan (Stockholm’s Old Town) Strolling around Gamla Stan Some sights: Nobel Prize Museum, Storkrykan Ferry to Djurgsrden Some sights: The Viking Museum, Vasa Museum Ferry back to Gamla Stan Find the manhole cover guy Find dinner Metro home