Friday, March 12, 2010

Stockholm

Last weekend John and I ventured to Stockholm, Sweden, traveling on 5 euro per flight tickets. The city exceeded our expectations. It has a very clean and a had a grandeur to it, a royal feel. We spent the entirety of Saturday walking all over the city, which is built up on several islands, each with a varying topography. The city's grand architecture matched the feel of its natural landscape. As we walked around each piece of the city, we were able to glance back across the water to where we had traveled and what we had in store. The city's elevation change provided many amazing views of different perspectives.

Our hostel was crazy, being located in an old prison that had gone out of use in 1775. The rooms were amongst a museum for the prison and our beds were in the old cells. We saw a lot of the city over the course of the weekend and also had amazing weather. Both John and I have created flickr pages too, and we have more pictures on there: Will's and John's







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2 comments:

  1. Garrett NewtonMarch 15, 2010 at 8:28 AM

    5 euro per flight? how is that translated into American? How long did it take to get comfortable using the Euro?

    same thing goes with the China folks. how about the Yin?

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  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 9:21 AM

    5 euro is about 7 US dollars, we bought the flights in advance through a really cheap airline, of course we had to take a 10 euro bus to get to the airport outside of the city that they fly from, but it was still a sweet deal

    It wasn't to hard getting used to it, you just have to remember to know that youre spending more in dollars than the euro price says. And then of course we had to use Kronor in Sweden which was like 7 Kronor is a dollar, that was a little harder...and the money just looks crazy too

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