Skating in Stockholm

We arrived in Stockholm after a 2.5 hour bus from Örebro on Monday and checked into our first hostel. We wandered the pedestrian strip of town, trying hard not to faceplant on the icy pavement.

walking into old town

view over old town from the south


Tuesday we visited the old town, admiring the narrow cobbled streets, amazing churches and stopped for a hot chocolate at Chokladkoppen, which came highly recommended to us and lived up to all expectations. Next stop was a tower which we climbed for great (COLD) views of the town, then a visit to the city museum which was very good (and warm and free).

City centre by night

Wednesday was really cold, a public holiday and not really condusive to sightseeing. We moved hostels and immediately took advantage of their free ice skates and headed to the local park where there was a nice free skating area. In the evening we partook in the hostel Swedish Meatball experience and learnt to make meatballs out of moosemeat then ate them for dinner- YUM!
Skating adventures

Today the snow was back and so we ventured out to the Vasa Museet, which is a museum with an old wooden war ship from the 1600s which sank on it's maiden vouage just 1km from the port. It lay submerged (and lost) for 330 years before it was found, salvaged and eventually turned into a museum. It was pretty amazing, and the museum described all the rumours as to why it may have sunk.

Tomorrow we hope to make it to the Nobel museum before we catch our overnight train north to Kiruna.

Budget tip of the day: Stockholm is EXPENSIVE, no way around it. For some free wintery fun, head to the closest hilly park you can find and go sliding. Its fun, brings out the inner kid in everyone and best of all, free. Then you've got the valid excuse that you've 'earned' that expensive coffee.


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Location:Stockholm, Sweden