Still winter here :( so I took the chance to go downtown to take some pics. Let's see how they turned out, shall we? :)


First tho, a few shots of my 'burb
Steppin' out the door
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walkin' to the subway (my old junior high on the left)
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Tallest building in Scandinavia towering behind the local church
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Ärvingegången - one of the many pedestrian strets in my 'hood - it was all planned to seperate viechles from pedestrians as much as possible
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The train from the City, just two stations left to go (big mall here, hence all the people)
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Recenetly renovated, that church. Can't remember what king it's named for right now.
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Crossed that^ street, looked right - all the splendour of Kungsträdgården (the King's Garden, which it actually was once upon a time) in winter
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Looking left instead, Södermalm (Southside) in the back on the cliff, Old Town on the right & Gustav III standing dead center
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..and that's Karl XII pointing to yonder Russia
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Denmark's House. Probably the embassy, not sure.
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I count four islands. On the left edge Riksdagen (national parliament) on the right UD (state department) and the headless rider is Gustav II Adolf (aka Gustavus Adolphus aka Lion of the North)
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The beauty that is rebuilding a subway entrence in a 60s building
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I call it "Where's the bus?"
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Malmskilnadsgatan, possibly the Inner City street with the worst rep. Funny thing is, it's got Stockholm's oldest skyscarpers, the central bank, big DT shopping center and two major bank's HQs on it. Go figure.
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Boring, empty side-street.
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Slighlty less boring, less empty side-street. So let's walk it.
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Only saw chinese stuff in there tho
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At the end of that street. the 50s and 60s were golden decades in architecture.
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Aaah, that's better.
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looking back from the very end of the street. It really is beautiful in DT Stockholm.
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Ok, so it's not that bad. The new-looking buildings on the left are just multi-storey parking turned into housing.
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Can't beat late winter to bring out the beauty of concrete overpasses.
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A Volvo and a Saab! what are the odds? (pretty good actually). Buildings on the left are on the Knight's Isle, in the way back is Södermalm.
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Another Volvo! (oh yeah, you think of somthing funny/interesting to write with tis pic;))
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Centralstation = Central Station, Gustav Adolfs Torg = Gustavus Adolphus' Square, Gamls Stan = the Old Town
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Finally getting some scenic qualities in here
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and tey keep comming!
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City Hall (from 1921)
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Gotta have an elevated street and rail combo cutting thru Old Town, don't ya? (that's the old commuter rail, getting new ones later this year).
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See what I mean? Lovely!
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Those red picket fences up there belong to a daycare center. Gotta be amazing views from the flats in those buildings right on the cliff.
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Högalidskyrkan. Can't translate it, since I don't know what it means (apart from -kyrkan = the...church).
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Underneath Centralbron (the elevated street/rail)
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There have been proposals to do a Big Dig thing with it on and of for decades. All that is actually going to happen is a new tunnel for the commutertrains (but the rails are for intercity trains to, so everything stays).
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Scenic again!
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looks like weeds, but is planted (there were 4 more clumps). Not sure what the idea is.
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Cold, dreary friday afternoon in mid March. Hence the empty streets. Oh, and that Kungsholmen (the King's Isle) across the bridge.
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City Hall again, with the only set of Stockholm flags I know of.
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Looking back across Riddarfjärden (the water, last part of lake Mälaren before running into the Baltic Sea by the Old Town)
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last building on the shore before the naked cliff has an elevator that used to be a cheap n' easy way to get up/down from Södermalm (opened in the late 1800s).
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Closer look at the City flag
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St. Erik, noted for his crusades in Finland and the well that instantly sprung up where he was assasinated.
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Didn't we just see this view? :)
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Slussen, where Södermalm (Southide) meets Gamla Stan (Old Town). Been remodeld many times over the centuries, and supposed to be done again soon.
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again with the repeats :D
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Södermalm has its share of ugly 60s buildings too.
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Entrence to the inner courtyard of City Hall from the street. The lake side is a double row of collumns.
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A "trunk-line" bus. IMO these 4 lines should be replaced with LRT/trams.
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Regular bus. And a Volvo!
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Hantverkargatan, on the King's Isle, featuring the flag of Stockholm's County (just a combo of the heraldry of Stockholm City, Södermanland and Uppland - the provinces to the south and north)
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Looks like somebody forgot to fly the EU flag. :D

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nope i wouldn't think so. The EU flag is not very common in this country :(

@swede, why is st.Erik on the stockholms flags anyway? Stockholm was founded 100 years after the died

Nice pics! Stockholm`s good feature is that it`s located to many islands. I`m
not sure if I like 60`s building, maybe they should renovate and change the colour of 60`s buildings.

Thanks for the tour, Swede! I like your ironic comments about the 60's buildings... :)

haa! that was an interesting tour! i enjoyed it very much.

nice to see some familiar kings from the estonian history :D


thanks, swede! :)

Those are some nice and interesting pics! I really like the view of Södermalm from the north with those old buildings on the cliffs.

thanks!!

nice pics..
especially the photos of Kista..

Oh, I see I'm not the only one that made on a photo tour today. Nice tour, looks like you'we walked a lot. I really like those "hilly" streets. :)

And about the winter, don't worry, looks like spring is comming here now so it'll probably be in Sweden soon too. :D

And about the winter, don't worry, looks like spring is comming here now so it'll probably be in Sweden soon too.
Sweden is big but we in the stockholm area will get our spring in 2 days :D its late but its still nice that it finally come

A charmer of a thread, Swede! :applause: Thanks. :)

Oh, I see I'm not the only one that made on a photo tour today. Nice tour, looks like you'we walked a lot. I really like those "hilly" streets. :)

And about the winter, don't worry, looks like spring is comming here now so it'll probably be in Sweden soon too. :D

no you were not! i also made a tour! Expect pics soon!

back to topic... nice photos, im not too accuinted with Stockholm...hey that gives me an idea, i should book a boat. :) Nice pics, i enjoyed Kista very much, looks very tall!

Sweden is big but we in the stockholm area will get our spring in 2 days :D its late but its still nice that it finally come
Really?? Your lucky bastards...!!

Anyways, nice thread...Looks very differant from cph, i think...

Nice indeed.

@Ringil - not sure why he is our parton saint, but he's been so from the start. How he survived the reformation (i.e. the heraldry wasn't re-done) is a bit strange too.

@ch1le - yeah, a boatride is a good idea for tourists (and locals who haven't done it before:)). The sightseeing boats start at Kungsträdgården :D

@all y'all - thanks for all the praise :)

im sure the boats in stockholm area are nice and all, but i ment a different kind of boat, a bigger boat, more like a ship.. a big ship :)

One of my favourite things about Stockholm's waterfront is that in many places the buildings form a "vertical cliff" instead of the usual boring straight line. Good stuff and comments. I really appreciated the Kista pics, too.