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Some Things to do in
Sweden & Norway
Stockholm, Göteborg, Oslo, & Bergen.
Buy
a City card. It is reasonable and gives you free passage on the bus, free entrance to
many museums, the royal palaces, other free rides etc. and more.
Car rentals are somewhat expensive. You CAN
use your current drivers license. You do not need the international drivers
license.
Parking places are hard to find in the city, and it is expensive to park.
Some of the hotels make you pay for parking in their lot or garage. You might want to
check.
You will have no problem getting around in
Sweden or Norway. There are many buses and trains running to all areas of the
cities. The X200 (fast train) train between cities is a great trip. www.tagplus.se
Stockholm
The medieval town of Stockholm expanded along the Baltic Sea, where an
archipelago of 24,000 islands, skerries and lumps of rock have protected
it from the open seas, making it ideally situated for trade and maritime
activities. Most of the land masses are uninhabited, although the
popularity of the area for boating means it can be hard finding
anchorage in high summer. The Stockholm archipelago endures up to 20 cm
(8in) of ice through most of the winter. The city is best seen from the
water, but you'll enjoy seeing the parklands of Djurgården or the
alleys of Gamla Stan on foot.
The
Vasa museum A large ship that was built and capsized in the harbor in 1628 on it's
first voyage.
City Hall, where they present the Noble Peace Prize,
Boat ride
around The Stockholm archipelago.
Skansen
open-air museum. Catch a glimpse of Swedish history. Houses and farmsteads of the
countryside, People in costumes, animals etc.
Gröna
Lund amusement park with roller coaster, haunted and variety shows.
Close to
Skansen.
Drottningholm Castle
where the royal family lives. You can take a tour of the castle.
Visit Gamla Stan=Old Town, where you will find lots of shops and
restaurants and no cars. Also, where the Royal Palace and crown Jewels, and the changing of
the guard.
Royal
Palace
Gamla Stan, situated on the island of Stadsholmen, is Stockholm's
old town, which emerged in the 13th century. Its medieval streets are
linked by a fantasy of lanes, arches and stairways. The present Royal
Palace was completed in 1760, replacing the original, which was
burned down in the 17th century. Today its apartments and armoury offer
an excellent insight into the past. East of the city, the larger island
of Djurgården offers wonderful parklands and a concentration of
fine museums. One not to miss is Skansen, the world's first
open-air museum, where exhibits from all over Sweden give it a rural
feel. Skansen also includes a zoo, aquarium, forestry pavilion and a
tobacco museum. On the western shore of Djurgården is the famous Vasamuseet,
which grants you a look into the lives of 17th-century sailors. It's
also a brilliant achievement in marine archaeology.
Museums
in Stockholm
Alphabetical directory of museums located in and around the city
of Stockholm.
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Some other places to visit.
Nusnäs Sweden is about 10 km outside Mora
where the real
Dalecarlian horse is manufactured. Here is the web site if you do
not
have it http://www.nohemslojd.se/
Carl
Larsson home in Sundborn is an excellent place to visit.
Miscellaneous
Take lots of pictures and have them developed
in the USA. The cost for double prints in the USA is less than half for the cost of single
prints in Norway & Sweden.
The main international airport is Arlanda, half an
hour's bus ride north of Stockholm. There are daily services to and from
most European capitals. Most flights from North American and Asian
centres fly through Copenhagen where you may have to change planes. An
airport tax of 14 kr is included in ticket prices. Buses and trains link
up with ferries to provide services to and from Sweden, Denmark,
Finland, Norway, Germany, Poland, Estonia and the UK. Swedish ports of
entry include Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Malmö and Stockholm, although
ferries from north-western Finland head straight for Umeå and Skellefteå
in northern Sweden and services to Germany leave from Trelleborg.
-
Swedish
rail information on the rail system in
Sweden
- Westnet's Sweden
Information site includes detailed regional information and
a quiz to test your knowledge of Sweden (LP readers will be well
primed)
- Swedish
Information Consulate general of Sweden with
facts on Sweden
- The Swedish Embassy in
Washington's site has the lowdown on visas and tourist
information as well as connecting to news and current affairs
sources.
- Despite some curious graphics, the Swedish Travel and Tourism
Council's Global
Visitor's Guide to Sweden is a gateway to tons of useful
information.
- Still Sweden's favourite export: find out more than you ever
wanted to know at ABBA
Forever.
- Original Abba site
-
Swedish Home
Lots about Stockholm
- Viking Network Web
- Much of the Swedish
Page's regional info is in Swedish, but you can find out (in
English) who's picked up a Nobel
Prize.
Gamla Stan is the old city of Stockholm, the original island where it
all
started. It is pretty well in the center of the city. Beautiful old
buildings, narrow, winding cobblestone streets, the Royal Palace (and
Crown
Jewels), lots of lovely boutiques, etc. An absolute MUST for
any visit to Stockholm. It is quite a small island and you can easily
walk
around it but wear tennis shoes or similar as cobbles can be hard on
your feet when you are not used to them.
- Copenhagen NOW
is the place to point your clicker if you want to know the hot spots
for a rave, for a drink or to see some homegrown Danish punk.
- KultuNaut is 'den
elektroniske kulturguide' (yeah, it's in Danish).
- Taler De dansk?
Danish For Travelers is a guide to learning basic Danish
phrases and words.
- For up-to-the-minute entertainment info, see Time
Out magazine's site.
- It's big, it's breathtaking, it's chock full of stuff, and you can
even have your say about hip places in London on Big
City.
- Hotels London On
line search for hotels
- London city guide
Lots of information on London
- The London Guide
tells you what's on, where to stay, what to eat, how to get around
and even how to keep the kiddies out of mischief when you're there.
- London: The Channels
has hundreds of pics of the fair streets of London to help you plan
or reminisce, as well as links to loads of useful sites.
- Get smart and try Going
Underground; all about the tube. It has tube tales, the
Queen on the tube, buskers, celebrities and even what to read on the
tube.
- The British Library and
Natural History Museum
sites have info on these great institutions' exhibitions, programmes
of public activities, collections and acquisitions.
- The London Guide
has a great collection of food and accommodation tips, transport
options, entertainment bits and pieces, maps - everything the
visitor to Luvverly London is likely to need.
- Virtual
London advises on how to avoid being ripped off and includes
the Janey Lee Grace Really Good Gig Guide. Have a butcher's hook at
their Cockney dictionary too.
- If you've ever lain awake at night wondering what Throgmorton
Street looks like, wonder no more. Digistreets
is a fun site that takes you to the streets of ol' London town and
provides useful information about postal codes and rental prices
along the way.
- The Foreign Ministry struts its cyber-stuff with Virtual
Finland - dense, but informative.
- Kiasma, the Museum of
Contemporary Art, is a very pretty sight and a worthwhile site if
you can be bothered waiting.
- Kulttuuri Net has
info on almost any aspect of culture you'd care to name, and then
some.
- The City of Helsinki
has got tourists in its sights with information on everything from
news to train timetables.
- Welcome to Finland Online
is a magazine-style jaunt through all things Finnish.
- Greg Rubidge's Blast
through SW Finland is an entertaining read.
- Plan your Finn-style fun with Travel
in Finland which lists cultural happening, sights,
activities and regional information.
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