Stockholm
Saturday, 18. August 2007, 19:55:40
Stockholm welcomed us with good looking swedish people who were answering our questions about finding food at 9.30 on a Thursday night. Somehow we were always busy with finding a good restaurant but I should admit, the last one we found was just perfect.
I didn't check any travel guide before this trip but I think we could see the most famous tourist attractions. Our first destination in the city was Gamla Stan, the old town. It was so touristic that some people were trying to bilk tourists with a where-is-the-ball-game. After walking in the narrow streets of Gamla Stan we took a boat trip. The boat was the last one and they offered us a day ticket which was valid for the next day too. It was a good deal for 100 SKR (about 11€) but wasn't a joyful tour. The city was introduced by a tape which was recorded by the most bored person on earth
The only thing I remember from tape is the price of appartments on the most expensive street of Stockholm, 10.000€/m2 
On the next day we've headed to Vasa Museum which hosts an almost 400 years old historical warship. Scadinavian lifestyle of 17th century is illustrated in 5 floors, or was it even bigger?
I found it a bit exaggerated.
After seeing Vasa we went to Skansen which is an oper air museum and has a zoo of scandinavian animals. We were busy with watching animals most of the time and there I found out "Björn" means brown bear. Björn is a common male name in Europe, especially in Sweden and I think it represents a powerful and brave man like "lion" in turkish. I was very surprised because "bear" connotes rudeness and harshness in Turkey.
We were yearing to have some swedish food from the beginning and very close from the exit of Skansen we found this restaurant and had delicous swedish food for reasonable prices. They served juice of lingonberry (I'm not sure what the fruit is though) for free and we were very satisfied with the meal. I was told that Stockholm was very expensive but I think it's not expensive than Paris, except alcohol. That dinner costed us 12-15€ each person but we payed 7€ for a beer in a nice bar on Friday night.
I'm still tired of these last trips but I'm very happy I could go to some cities I wanted to see.
I didn't check any travel guide before this trip but I think we could see the most famous tourist attractions. Our first destination in the city was Gamla Stan, the old town. It was so touristic that some people were trying to bilk tourists with a where-is-the-ball-game. After walking in the narrow streets of Gamla Stan we took a boat trip. The boat was the last one and they offered us a day ticket which was valid for the next day too. It was a good deal for 100 SKR (about 11€) but wasn't a joyful tour. The city was introduced by a tape which was recorded by the most bored person on earth
The only thing I remember from tape is the price of appartments on the most expensive street of Stockholm, 10.000€/m2 On the next day we've headed to Vasa Museum which hosts an almost 400 years old historical warship. Scadinavian lifestyle of 17th century is illustrated in 5 floors, or was it even bigger?
I found it a bit exaggerated. After seeing Vasa we went to Skansen which is an oper air museum and has a zoo of scandinavian animals. We were busy with watching animals most of the time and there I found out "Björn" means brown bear. Björn is a common male name in Europe, especially in Sweden and I think it represents a powerful and brave man like "lion" in turkish. I was very surprised because "bear" connotes rudeness and harshness in Turkey.
We were yearing to have some swedish food from the beginning and very close from the exit of Skansen we found this restaurant and had delicous swedish food for reasonable prices. They served juice of lingonberry (I'm not sure what the fruit is though) for free and we were very satisfied with the meal. I was told that Stockholm was very expensive but I think it's not expensive than Paris, except alcohol. That dinner costed us 12-15€ each person but we payed 7€ for a beer in a nice bar on Friday night.
I'm still tired of these last trips but I'm very happy I could go to some cities I wanted to see.
WIDGETIZE