Day 5. Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm

We woke to yet another hot, sunny day.  After breakfast in our apartment we took the metro to Rådhuset and then walked a short distance along the waterfront to the Stromma Line booking office outside City Hall.  We had decided to obtain the Stockholm Pass which allows entry to numerous top attractions and boat trips …

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Day 4. Royal Palace, Stockholm

The weather forecast predicted 31 degrees Celsius making Stockholm even hotter than Spain!  Leaving jumpers and cardigans behind, we headed for the metro and took the blue line from Solna Centrum to its terminus at Kungsträdgården and then just had a short distance to walk to the waterfront before crossing the bridge to the Swedish …

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Day 3. ABBA The Museum, Stockholm

After a leisurely breakfast of yoghurt, eggs, toast and marmalade sat at the table in our cosy studio flat in Solna, we wandered down the hill and caught a blue line metro to Kungsträdgården from where we transferred to a 67 bus to Djurgården as the metro does not connect with this island. In the …

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Day 2. Climbing Stockholm’s City Hall Tower

After a good night's sleep we woke feeling refreshed and prepared ourselves a breakfast of eggs, yoghurt, rye bread and marmalade plus several cups of coffee.  It was a glorious, sunny morning as we left the apartment at 9.30 a.m. and wandered down the hill to Solna Centrum metro station.  Getting into the city centre …

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Day 1. Our Swedish adventure begins

We woke early and travelled to Manchester airport by train, arriving nice and early for our lunch time KLM Cityhopper flight to Amsterdam.  There were no other passengers waiting to check in at the KLM desk so thankfully it only took a few minutes to complete formalities and pass through security in Terminal 3. Before …

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