Day 5 31 July Stockholm

Today the weather was again monotonously beautiful and perfect like 13-24ºC. We walked to the Military Museum which was a leisurely 30 minutes from our hotel. We spent almost two hours there. We have seen a lot of good military museums, and they had done a good job, in fact some of their layouts were world class.

They also had an exhibition of Sweden’s relationship with Ukraine over the last 1000 years. Certainly, they had been allies against Russia in the past…so some things never change.

Our next visit was the National Museum. An excellent collection of art but lacking those big-name artists. They did however have security guards and lot of beautiful artefacts.

Here is the Statue of Charles XII complete with seagull. Referred to as the statue with pots, they are actually siege mortars. There seemed to be not that many seagulls around. Our theory is that they don’t seem to sell chips on the seafront, hence their relative absence. 

On our way home we stopped in a shopping mall to buy a computer mouse and sit down and have a drink. We thought it was lemonade but turned out to be a ginger beer which was quite refreshing. We had previously discovered a sweet shop, and we bought a nutbollar. It is a chocolate and nut exterior, filled with the lightest cream you have ever eaten. It was like diabetes had gone to heaven.

 For tea we went to the train station and bought a kebab to take home,    and the fellow picked our Australian accents immediately and chatted to us about crocodiles and the Great Barrier Reef.

Stockholm is a very attractive city with a youthful vibe. It was very multicultural, just like Australia, but who was a local and who was a tourist, was more difficult to determine.