Stockholm hås ä very different feel thån other pläces I have visited in Europe. It is fär more modern thän expected and things appeär very similär . . . when in English. Oddly enough, the cäfe I am sitting is plåying ä middle eåstern cd thät I häve ät höme.
Gamla Stan is he original and old part of stockholm. The streets are narröw and has the feel of europe although for the most part this is a shopping quarter. Some of the streets are cobblestone filled but others are granite bricks...to match the architecture. It is a nice area to walk about in...but many of the finds are similar to what one would find in San Francisco. I went to another island (this area of sweden is a bunch of islands linked by short bridges and boat locks) or perhaps better said, I went to Norrmalm which has some of the nicest waterfront areas of stockholm. The buildings again, much of the age is similar to Germany pre WWII or for a local comparisson the Ritz Carlton in NY is of the same period. Not sure what the actual architectural name is, but from that era. From here I took a two hour cruise named, 'Under the Bridges' which was relaxing, informative and altogether a nice way to pass time and veg for a bit. From the dock I walked to Skeppsholmen which is where the National Museum is located...almost went in and remembered from my reading that there was another museum that was a ´do not miss´. Walked to the next island called Skansen.
This museu´m, the Vassa houses a ship that sunk in 1629. They raised the ship and it sits in a museum where you can walk about it (it is huge...huge!) and look at various éxhibits related to it's history. Really impressive...but the Viking/Swedish history--brutal. Farmers who liked to fight.
My train for Oslo heads out at 10:20pm and will arrive at 7:00am. Not sure if I will take in many sights there...looking forward to the fjords and there is a lot to do from Bergen. From what I can gather Norway is much more modern than Sweden...perhaps something along the lines of Westerners arriving in Singapore only to find that they feel they are in the US.