Long Way Round Europe 2010: Κυνηγώντας όνειρα σε 13 χώρες...

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And we are in Scandinavia!
As you can see from first Swedish red house which I saw already in a port



Yes, it’s Sweden for sure!

yellow-blue


and red



We settled on a camping in Stockholm, in a small, but nice house in Swedish style:



No more tent after Riga!

Actually in the camping there were only houses to rent or caravans. Nothing strange... We have seen a place for tents:

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Behind a hill and a forest we found metro station. After a battle for a ticket (with a guy in a ticket office and with a ticket machine) we went to the city.
We started visiting Stockholm from Gamla Stan – Old Town. To be honest, it didn’t make so big impression, especially after Old Town in Tallin. Big buildings, roads under repair and of course... rain again...



I liked colours

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Old Town – it didn’t change much from the beginning!






Among tourists you could see one of the symbols of Sweden – famous Dalarna horses.
Dalecarlian horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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When we were already there, we paid a visit to Royal Family.
Unfortunately they were not at home









View from king’s balkony. Here must go parades.

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As all royal palaces also this one was of course guarded.
Or rather – they tried to make such impression
Guards looked so bored and so not-willing-to-stand-there! They looked rather like tourists who had to stand there as a punishment for taking photos in interiors of palace!

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Next attraction was on the other island of Stockholm, Djurgården, so we went there by boat.



As you can see, in the centre of Stockholm there are also big ferries for international cruises:

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Djurgården welcomes with screams from big amusement park

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Second number 1 of our travel! Skansen (heritage park)!
It is huge area with buildings and all surroundings as it was in Sweden years and centuries ago.

Whole city...








villages...


(modern Stockholm and traditional granary of Sami)

farms...



I felt like in Bullerbyn!

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In Skansen live also animals that you can find in Sweden.
I wanted to see reindeers. They were already going to sleep.



But goats were not sleepy yet. And they liked patting




“Don’t go!”

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There were also our lovely horses!



It was really big. And slippery. Nikos had to throw me on the top
But there was also another one for little girls




It was dark when we left Skansen.
No, actually not dark... Very colourful:





Skansen left so big impression on me, that after coming back home I went to library and borrowed Astrid Lindgren’s “Madicken”