Stockholm in June

This summer my husband and I had an extraordinary opportunity to visit 3 countries in Europe.
The first country on our itinerary was Sweden. my husband attended a conference in the hotel in suburbs of Stockholm and after it was over we stayed over and took commuter train to visit the city in the next 3 days.
It is a beautiful city we really enjoyed visiting. The are so many pictures that it is hard to choose what to put on the blog.

We spend a lot of our time in the Old Town, or Gamla Stan and in surrounding islands. Even though we had three days, we still did not get to visit all there is to see.

When we got hungry we went to look for a place to eat. I have to admit that we were somewhat shocked at the prices. When we recalculated the price of a meal from kroner to US dollars we realised how lucky we are to live in USA. Even with the prices growing almost daily on most items here, from gasoline to produce, we still have a way to go to reach the prices that are common place in Europe, and, in this case Sweden. After a long day of wandering and enjoying the city, one must find a spot to sit down and eat, no matter how shocking the prices may be.  So, after some deliberation, guided by exhaustion and hunger we found a reasonable spot. It was not a sit down restaurant, but rather a small cafe with just a couple of tables. Old Street Cafe boasts of having an oldest cellar from middle ages in Stockholm. Well, that meant, that we found where to have our dinner that evening. We had to see the cellar and we stayed for a meal. The food was very nice and did not leave us wanting anything else, we were pretty full, and in fact, we made an effort to finish everything.

My husband got himself a panini sandwich with turkey  and I chose tuna salad served in a baked potato. It was not your American tuna salad. I remember that it was different and lovely. At the time I even got all of the ingredients, but now I realised that I should have written them down, right there and then. Unfortunately,  the ingredients for that  recipe that I thought I figured out are no longer in my head.



The way to the cellar. Very tall steps.



This is the cellar and I think we caught a ghost sitting on the bench... and he is wearing a watch.

Overall, we really enjoyed visiting in Stockholm!