Visiting Stockholm, Sweden - This Splendid Shambles

Last updated on 2 June 2024

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Join me as I spend time visiting Stockholm

To be honest, I hadn’t ever thought about visiting Stockholm, Sweden. Not that I didn’t have any desire to, but it just wasn’t on my radar of places to head to from England.

But in a recent trip, piggybacking on my dad’s work trip, I had a really great time – it’s a beautiful country (at least in summer…I don’t think I’d cope with like 4 hours of light a day in winter…). Have a quick look at the other post; I told you guys about Wednesday – Friday when we were in Orebro. On Friday evening, we took a train to Stockholm, and another one down to Handen to see some family friends.

Then on Saturday, they showed us a bit around Stockholm itself. One of the first places we went was the building that holds that Nobel Prize in it (but not the peace one). We didn’t go in, because we only had a few hours in total but it was really cool to see where they took place. That’s the building in the top left-hand corner of the image above.

That building I’m standing in front of is the King’s palace (I think?). And that weird looking creature wrapped in a towel on the bottom left is, as far as we could tell, a weird looking creature…wrapped in a towel…

Also, this orange man was sitting outside on a bridge and wasn’t moving. Then when someone came and put money in his little jar/vase thing, he moved in a sort of robotic way…or kind of like those ballerinas on the top of music boxes do…

We got ice cream (delicious!) and then went and sat in a square, where there was an orchestra playing, then we took a walk down some of the back streets in Gamla Stan (Old Town).

The top right photo above, and the bottom left photo show the narrowest street in Stockholm. Judging by it’s width, I think it was only about a metre wide and was just a staircase basically. When we were going down, there was a group of tourists going up, so it made for a tight squeeze!

The lady at the bottom right of the above photo was an amazing busker! She had this funny instrument, which was kind of in the shape of a macaroon, and it made different sounds wherever she hit it. She had a beautiful voice too, and was advertising her CD and her website…I think I will check it out. Oh, and I totally want to learn that instrument next…

This cute man was my favourite. He is holding sheet music and when you walk down from a street opposite, he is the first thing you see. Isn’t he the cutest!?

We rounded a corner and found these guys just dancing their hearts out. I don’t think there was anything specific on…just dancing in a square because they could. Who knows!?

And then at about 4 pm we took another train to the airport (where we were actually delayed by two hours, so spent like 3.5 hours with nothing to do), took the 2.25-hour flight back to Heathrow, got the 3-hour bus ride back to here and by that stage it was about 1:30 am on Sunday morning and I collapsed in a tired heap…and didn’t wake up until 12:30 pm…

So concludes my adventures in Sweden. It was very fun, and I would love to go back there someday, for a longer period of time.

Have you ever spent time Visiting Stockholm, Sweden?