Hi all - I am just back from a trip that started in Stockholm, wended southwest onto the west coast of Sweden, across Denmark almost to its west coast, and then finished in Copenhagen.
It was mostly places I have been before, with a couple of new ones thrown in. Lodging ranged from a private room in a hostel to a room that I got for half price that I could not have otherwise treated myself to.
Transportation was planes, trains, and automobiles (and a few ferries), along with a few city buses.
I flew Air France from CDG via Amsterdam to Stockholm. I had pre-purchased my Arlanda Express ticket into town from the airport, so hopped on a train just as it arrived.
Arriving in Stockholm, I walked the seven minutes from the central station to the Generator Hostel, where I stayed on my previous trip to Stockholm in August 2019. I paid 115€ a night for a private single. Having stayed in this hostel before, I knew it was clean and simple and comfortable and well placed for the train station. I would have loved to stay somewhere with more charm, but I was saving my lodging money for a couple of nicer places later in the trip.
I had four nights in Stockholm - there were some nice bright days and some rather rainy days. Plus some real wind. I hadn't thought to being gloves or a hat, nor my most rainproof jacket (I had a combination of a puffer vest with hood and light rain jacket with hood that I can wear together).
On my previous visit to Stockholm, I had visited the Vasa Museum and Skansen and gone out on a ferry for the day to the archipelago, so didn't need to do these this time.
You will think I am crazy, but living in France I get tired of French pastries. (!!!!) So I looooove cinnamon buns in Scandinavia, and I am pretty sure I had a cinnamon bun every single day of my trip. While in Stockholm, I went every morning to one of the Fabrique bakeries for breakfast. I have been addicted to their buns and their ambiance since going to one in London a few years ago. Yum yum yum.
Otherwise in Stockholm, I:
-- went to a concert at the concert hall. I looked online before my trip and found a quintet that was playing music from one Swedish composer and two French (one of whom had spent a lot of time in Sweden). It was a Sunday afternoon concert and was fun to experience both the building and the music.
-- finally visited the inside of the Stadshus by doing the guided tour. I had visited the outside and admired the architecture and its beautiful site, but it was a treat to see the inside, although the tour whisked us through earlier than I would have liked. Still, it was fun.
-- visited the Moderna Museet and saw their special exhibit on German Expressionism. I am not a modern art fan but can do this era, and my friend wanted to take me there. We didn't look at much of the permanent collection. And we had the fun of taking the ferry back to Gamla Stan as it would have been longer waiting for the bus.
-- had a fika with this friend at Socker Sucker which was fabulous.
-- had dinners with one friend T a hip Lebanese restaurant (it was a Saturday night and most of the other clients looked like they were headed to a night clubbing afterwards), but the food was delicious, Almaza
-- seafood from the west coast at Glupsk, where we ate crab rolls.
-- I had one exceedingly expensive dinner at a Japanese izakaya, Miyakodori. The quality was good, but since I wasn't in the mood to go all out, I should have chosen another place.
Otherwise - wandering the streets, taking photos, etc.
