So Colin and I have a bit of a
confusion about the time as we think it is 5.30am but when I went up on deck
the clocks around the ship are saying 4.30am??
So we check the daily Compass which is a 4 page booklet which tells you
when all the different activities are on, opening hours of the services and
shops, need to know information, sunrise, sunset, weather forecast for the next
day etc etc but the previous nights there was a section to tell us to put our
clocks forward and back but not last nights one??? Mmmmm we are not sure what the time is now
but boy we are so glad we got the time wrong as we would have missed this
sensational show if we got up an hour later, enjoy the next few photos as no
need for commentary from me at all just nature at its best……..
Colin’s
turn now up for his walk!
Colin
says this is his house he would like to own!!!!
In your dreams matey as you don’t even have a job!!!!
I had to download the photos as soon as Colin
came back from his walk as he was really excited about this photo as the sun
has made the lamp look like it is on, well done Colly you have been doing a
good job with the photographs.
In our guide to
Sweden we read the journey that we are photographing takes approximately 3
hours to go through an Archipelago of 24,000 islands and islets with over
50,000 summer homes and chalets that are reached by some of the 250,000 private
boats registered in the city and suburbs.
AMAZINGINLGY beautiful!!!
Because
we have spent quite a bit of time photographing the amazing sites around us and
Amy is still sleepy in the room after all her dancing last night!! Amy and I
have breakfast in the room and Colin goes upstairs to the restaurant for his
breakfast
Aye
Aye Captain! We disembarked from the
ship just after 7.30am
View
from the port
Yeehah now to get
through Passport Control again!!
Amy on front seat for
the Hop On Hop Off tour as we are about a 20-30minute walk from the port into
main city
The same guy who
designed Paris designed Stockholm this road reminds me of the Champs Elysee
These
buildings have no relevance I don’t think they just looked nice!
The fountain at Karlaplan Park roundabout
A
tree lined Avenue
One
of the main streets
Beautiful building on
the corner of this street
One
of the shopping streets
It
is 9am and we are in the middle of Stockholm!!
Amy
knows all the flags on this building, no prizes to be won today though ha ha!!
Beautiful
buildings in the distance a bit of culture and then you see McDonald’s on the
left!!
Our
first glance of the river just near the Old Town!
Looking across the river
to the Palace
Looking
across the river to the small island which holds the Parliament House
Another
bridge to go across to the Old Town
Wow the current looks
really strong under the bridge we are going to take to get to the Old Town
The
Opera House just as we get off the bus to go for a wander
Looking
across the river and bridge watching the men fish on the strong current. Amy got up early and had a shower for me to
put her hair into plaits for her hair to go curly for formal night tonight!
Statue
of someone!!
View from the bridge
just beside the guys fishing, they haven’t caught anything yet! But will they with the current being so
strong?!
Looking
the other way across the bridge, the overground train in the distance
Oh
yeah they must be local and know that they can get fish from this river with
the strong current I am surprised!
Here
is one that didn’t get away!!
One of the canals
Why
would you graffiti ‘I don’t regret a thing’ on a lightpost?!
Waterfall
on the side of the palace showing that the Palace was built 1754 on the grounds
of the castle which burnt down in 1697
Amy with the guard
behind her!
Across
the river is National Museum and a beautiful building and setting
One
of the many streets through the Old Town
The
other side of the Palace. The Palace is
one of the largest in Europe with 608 rooms and is official residence of HM the
King. The Palace is a combination of
residence and royal workplace. I’m not sure what the front is but there are
guards at each entrance. This dude is
pacing!!
He’s
back on his perch I obviously don’t look that conspicuous as he has his eyes on
something else!!
The Cathedral where
all the Royal baptisms, coronations and weddings take place built in the 1700’s
right next to the Palace
So
we wondered what this painted dome was it looked similar to where the guard’s
normally stand so I was looking around it and then realised that it was the
men’s toilet!!
Colin
in the stinky hole for a men’s toilet, ewh!
The
square in the Old Town
The
Museum which holds the history of Nobel Prize winners
Pretty buildings
around the square!
Cute little side streets off the square
One of the shopping
quant side streets
The old town is on an
island in the middle of Stockholm so never far away from water
Wouldn’t
fancy driving down this street
Statue
of King Gustaf III
One of the parks in the city with a statue of
not sure?!
Through
the street to Riddarholms Church with its open-work metal spire, beautiful
founded in the 13th century.
First time we have seen a windscreen wiper on the top deck of a hop on
hop off tour bus, woops managed to capture that in the photo too!!
The
Riddarholms Church
Temperature
showing 12 degrees C, jackets on but atleast the sun is shining!
Drink anyone think we
are in the right place!!
Across
the river to Tivola Grona Lund with the amusement park
A
view across the city I was surprised at the amount of black roofs on the
skyline
Beautiful
architecture around this city that is for sure
Across
the river a giraffe oh no it’s not it is a crane I’m not sure blending into the
background is the right phrase but certainly less ugly than a plain old crane!!
View
across the river
Yet
another non-specific building but it is really nice
Here they are trying
to preserve their land as you can see the buildings on this road are tilting
and subsiding like Venice with them being built on marsh ground! The houses were certainly sitting on an
angle!!
The
Opera House from the bridge
At
this point Amy and I’s headphones were not working so not sure who this is
either must have been some dude in his prime!
Across
the traffic is City Hall
City Hall is where the Nobel Prize banquet is
held in December each year built in 1923 with 8 million bricks
Tulips
in the middle of the carriageway, beautiful colours
Woop
woop one of the things I have been soooo looking forward is the Ice Bar just to
experience it!! Amy is getting excited
too :O)))
So
you pay to get in about £45ish, eeek but that is the hire of the warm gear and
a drink when you get in!! Think we will
be over budget today!!! Expensive but
we’ve just got to experience it! Amy is
looking cute in her little shawl and gloves, exciting!!
So
the guy is telling us that we will go through several doors to get into the bar
and then it will be minus 7 degrees in the bar, brrrrr at that point Amy
started to become unsure about going in.
AAARRRGGGHHH we have just paid a silly amount of money and Amy’s not
sure!!!!!!!
So as soon as we walk in Amy decides she
doesn’t like it and wants to leave!! But
we have had to come through a couple of dark hallways, the music is loud and
inside is pretty dark too so I suppose the tooty doesn’t like the dark and
doesn’t like things loud and doesn’t like feeling cold so all in all we ask her
why she was excited about coming to the Ice Bar and she said she felt it was
going to be like living in the Isle of Man like that cold!!!! Eh no LLLLLLL
So
here are our drinks in an ice cube glass, WOW what an experience just a real
shame that Amy isn’t enjoying it with us!!
Here
is Colly with his drink and his shawl and gloves on!
The
barman took a photo of all 3 of us!! Amy
still looks like she’s not enjoying it, poor thing!
The three drinks on
the ice table!! So everything is made of
ice, the sculptures, seats and tables!!
Me in my outfit!
Mmmmm my cocktail or should I say my VERY expensive cocktail!!!
Poor
Amy she just wants to go, so the drink is thrown down us and then a few photos
and OUT!!!
The photoframe
Standing at the bar, oh yeah made of ice
Yippee
no smile yet from Amy but we are out of the ice bar just let her smile thaw out
and then we are back being happy again!!
One of the shopping streets heading towards Hard Rock Café next!!
Lunch stop first pretty gardens next to the University
It
is ‘wear your wellie day’ or we think that is what the sign says so there are
lots of kiddies around playing different games, singing and dancing, cute with
the line of wellies on the wall!
Public Library, nice building
Yeah
we have made it to Hard Rock Stockholm
Amy has had her eye
on a t-shirt but they have never had her size in Barcelona, Berlin and
Copenhagen but eventually we have found her size, yippee a smile on her face
:o))))))
The pair of them are at it now looking for funny words!!!!
We have jumped back on the bus to head back to the cruise ship as we have seen everything we want to see
Very
pretty above the trees are all the spires of the houses along this road
Beautiful
building think it was a museum maybe but not sure as Amy and I’s headphones
weren’t working!!
Weird
looking thing!!
Pretty
roundabout
Bridge
across to the Vasa Museum and this must be some of the boats that go to the
islands around Stockholm
Vasa
Museum where the home of the Flagship Wasa the ship that sunk after 20 minutes
on its maiden voyage in 1628. It was
raised and restored in the 1960’s we didn’t go in but other people said it was
cool to see!
ABBA
Museum but we didn’t go in
Here we are back at
the port and that is a real random sculpture or piece of art!!
Stockholm
port where we berthed
Not
the prettiest of ports but it was the city we came to see not the ports!
Beautiful
blue skies another ship coming into the port
What a weird looking
boat carrying some cars across the water!
Just
leaving Stockholm and going to be heading back along the islands and islets
that we saw this morning!
It is formal night
for the last time on the cruise and it is Family Bingo on at kid’s club so we all
head up in our nice outfits! LouLou is
taking the Bingo who is going to win!! Back to the bargain dress again!
Yippee we were all
winners! Amy won a watch, Daddy won a
water bottle and I won a keyring clip!
And
the funny pose!!
Here
we are for dinner and watching the beautiful scenery go by it is better than
watching the TV as the scenery is forever changing as we are going through the
3 hour cruise through the islands and islets
Here is Iputu who has
made a beautiful rose for Amy tonight with a paper napkin
Amy’s
rose xx
Arvind
delivering Amy’s cookies
Ganess
and Eva who are serving us this week in the Romeo and Juliet dining room!!
Here are all the
kitchen crew coming out dancing and showing us their moves!
Aaahhh
a swan with Amy’s shades on!!
We
then went to see the show which was Motown Soul City, we all loved it and the
show was amazing!
We
didn’t notice the bat too in our room
Sweden sticker tick
Day at sea tomorrow
for packing and then ready for our next part of our adventure heading to
Moscow!!!! Can’t wait to see the sights
around Moscow!!! JJJJJJJJ
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