Today we'll be visiting the eastern side of Stockholm. As usual in the morning, wehad our breakfast and prepared our lunch. Looks like we're consuming our bread pretty fast... coz later today we'll need to get some bread for our breakfast, lunch and dinner tomorrow. Coz tomorrow we'll be heading back to Copenhagen around dinner time, so we'll need some sandwiches at the airport.
One of the out-door markets we saw on our way to Saluhallen. Stall was selling colourful flowers
Stall with nicely arranged vegetables and fruits
Anyway, today we made our way to Saluhallen. And today, the food hall is open! I must say that when u enter the hall, u can feel that its a rather posh place! Hahaha... the stalls are nicely decorated and the food, meat, salads, cheses, fish etc. are all nicely displayed. We walked around the hall looking at all the displayed food... and its true that the food sold here are really super expensive.
Inside Saluhallen
Stall selling fish. Super fresh fish.
All kinds of cheeses! they also have my dad's fav blue cheese. urgh
Stall selling all kinds of meat. from chicken, to pheasant to quail, rabbit, beef etc.
If the guidebook states that this place sells the freshest food and the most excellent food in Stockholm, hmmm.... i guess it should be true then. Solène was surprised that they were selling quiches everywhere.... hmmmm coz it somehow does not make sense that they are selling French food everywhere.... Coz this is Stockholm! hahaha.... I was telling her perhaps the Swedes like French food, especially the quiches so maybe they adopt it and recreat the quiches for the Swedes themselves. =P
After viewing the hall, we made our way further south-east to the Nobel park. I was expecting that perhaps they have somesort of plaques that show the names of the Noble prize winners or something like that. But I was totally wrong. hahaha... coz the Nobel park is just a normal park that over looks to the river and Djurgåden. The only thing that was unique here was that all the embassys had their buildings here! I guess this park was named after Alfred Nobel, who used his fortune to posthumously institue the Nobel Prizes.
River in front of Nobel Park
Crossing the bridge to get to Djurgården
This river was used as 1 of the spots for the games in Olympics 1912!
Statues on the bridge linking Ӧstermalm to Djurgården
Nice looking blue gate leading to the park along the river front in Djurgården
Nordisk Museum
Lobby of Nordisk Museum
We made our way to Djurgården. Djurgåarden is rather nice i must say. And all the important museums are here. For example the Nordisk museum, Vasamuseum etc. We did not visit any of the museums, they can be a little costly. We made our way to Beckholmen. hmmm... i saw from the pictures on google that this place was nice. So we walked there. Its ok. the place was just a tiny island where people bring in their ships for repairs or cleaning i guess. Coz there were huge 'port-holes' dug in the ground for housing the ships.
taken from the river front in front of the Vasamuseum
Bridge linking Beckholmen to Djurgården
Typical Scandic red houses on Beckholmen
The huge 'port-holes' to hold the ships when they are being repaired or getting cleaned
A super old car getting charged
Today the winds were really strong. We were feeling much colder than yesterday... a shame.... So we had to walk and walk and it was tough finding a nice spot to sit down and have lunch. But finally we found some nice picnic benches with tables in the sun. However, the ground was fully covered with ice. So we decided to sit there and eat our sandwiches. but after awhile, i felt that my feet were getting frozen! Coz my feet were on the ice on the ground, and the coldness from the ice was seeping into my shoes! so i had to place my feet onto a ledge to be away from the sun.
An Orangery seen in the park on Djurgården. This is sort of like a greenhouse
The park! yes! it was still covered with thick snow and ice.
This is how thick the snow is here! Imagine being here in the thick of winter! Brrrr....
After our lunch we walked further north-east. Coz we were thinking of heading up to Ӧstermalm. Coz we discovered that it was quite a bit of walk from the place where we were staying. and we also were thinking of doing a little souvenir shopping. Coz the shops were opened today. Solène wanted to get postcards to send to her family in France, and i wanted to get a magnet for my fridge. Hahaha.... I'm a little crazy... i will always buy a magnet of the city, country that I've been to and place it on my fridge. Anyway on our way back to Ӧstermalm, we saw more of Djurgården and took in the tranquil sights of the park. The park is really huge.... and u can see lots of Swedes walking in the park. Its really nice that the government makes such nice parks available for the people. Coz when u're walking in the park, its difficult to imagine that u're in the capital of Sweden!
Crossing the bridge on the otherside that links Djurgården to Ӧstermalm
U can rent city bikes to bike aound Stockholm. Its the cheaper form of transport... and u can also save the environment and travel faster than foot in this way!
Swedes sitting on the steps of the Royal Dramatic Theater trying to absorp as much sun as they can! hahaha
Once we made our way to Ӧstermalm, we headed to the shopping street Drottninggaten. Solène got the postcards for her family... and i was tempted to buy a postcard too! coz the postcards were cheap.... they cost 1 SEK each! Yup! i could not believe it! just that the stamps were expensive... they cost 12 SEK. In the end I also got a card, 1 stamp and 1 magnet! hahaha... and i will write to my family that evening.
Stockholm's trams
After our souvenir shopping, we headed to a supermarket that is up north of the hostel where we were staying. We were surprised that the things sold in this supermarket was much cheaper than the other supermarket we went to the past 2 days. so we got the groceries that we needed for that night and tomorrow. After our shopping we headed back to the hostel to cook and write to our family. =D
Tomorrow we will check out from the hostel and its back to Copenhagen again!
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