We just returned from 3 marvelous days in Stockholm - this city instantly made its way onto our short list of favorite places in Europe. The weather was absolutely flawless, the sights unique, the streets immaculate, the people extremely friendly, the hotel breakfast large enough to feed a family of 10, and even the beer prices - we had been forewarned that they were outrageous - were almost within reason.
It's a city built on islands large enough that you don't often realize that water is everywhere around you. You can see it all here, from the city hall where the Nobel Prize banquet is held, to the quaint alleys in the city's oldest section, to the royal palace, to the first and largest outdoor museum village in all of Europe, to the almost indescribable museum built around a 375 year-old fighting ship which lay in 100 feet of water only a half mile from the shore before being raised in 1961.
And being on the same latitude as southern Alaska, even in mid-July the sun was up well before 4AM. What's not to like??
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