Post by Grubb. And I don’t mean Ingrid, or Ingmar, but Oskar, the painter. His was the biggest collection at the Thiel Gallery that we traveled to today. On the outskirts of Stockholm past the American Embassy and expansive green equestrian grounds, the Thiel Gallery is nestled among expensive villas overlooking an undeveloped stretch of coastline. The…
The Daily Food Report
Today, a light, late lunch at the restaurant in the Fotografiska museum. A bottle of sparkling water for Grubb, white wine for me and a view for both of us. Baked tomatoes with cream cheese, pickled onions, on chard for me. Potatoes with asparagus and caviar for Grubb. Dinner was a mish-mash of stuff from…
Our route, Friday, June 2
A two Museum day. Art museums. In the morning, we stopped in at Espresso House for, well, it’s obvious. Took a bus way the heck out to the Thielska Gallery Took a ferry across the canal to get to Fotografiska Walked back to Gamla Stan where we caught the T-Bana to our local stop. Stopped…
Yikes, there’s a marathon in town
Post by Ella. Moving around Stockholm will be a bit of a maze today and tomorrow, June 2 – June 3. The Adidas Stockholm Marathon is in town. The Marathon website touted the beauty route through scenic and historical areas, which, of course, are exactly where tourists are wanting to go. The race ends in…
The Daily Food Report
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,…
Storkyrkan
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…
Vasa
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…
Tunnel of Viking adventure
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…
Nobel Flashback
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…
The oldest first
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…