City walk 2

Ostermalm saluhallen. A delicious foodie market.

I had a very tasty lunch of shrimp on toast here.

It was similar to Toronto's St. Lawrence market.

A drug store. Rough translation: Apothecary store. There were many Swedish words that were similar enough to English that you could figure them out. Spoken Swedish was much more difficult, although it sounded enough like English that you could imagine you were picking out a word or two.

My middle son loves construction equiptment. This photo is for him. I don't know what they were doing on the roof of this building.

Skansen

Skansen was a large park where they gathered together many historic buildings from across Sweden. It was like Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village.

It also had a small zoo and some amusement park rides.

Cabinet maker's shop.

A sundial. I hadn't seen one like this before. Later on in the trip we saw another one at Windsor Castle in London.

I took a lot of pictures of windows.

It was early in the season and most of the buildings in the park were closed. There were a few that were open and had guides in period costume. This is in a farmhouse. It had a very interesting fireplace, but the light was too low for a picture.

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The courtyard inside City Hall.


A window inside City Hall where we watched the opening ceremonies for the contest.


A view on the walk to City Hall.

The parliment buildings.

The house of the prime minister of Sweden. I love the ironwork.

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A window inside a church in Old Town.

There was a singing group rehearsing while I visited.

The acoustics were incredible, what a treat!

I loved the architectural details on the windows.

I should reverse this sign. I took it from the back and now I like the photo this way.

There was beautiful iron work everywhere I turned.

In the morning the light on the windows caught the beautiful colours of the surrounding buildings.

Vasa museum

The Vasa Museum as seen from the water. The height of the masts reaches well above the building.

A model of the Vasa. There were even huge sails on the bow.

The Vasa was a viking ship. It was to be the grandest warship the baltic sea had ever known.

The king commissioned so many carvings and extra cannons that the top heavy ship sank in the harbour on its maiden voyage in 1628.

It was rediscovered in 1956, covered in silt 30 metres under the water. Usually a worm eats wood of shipwrecks, but the water was not saline enough and the ship was preserved.

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'Art and War', the motto on the House of Nobility