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Changing Of The Guard

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The changing of the guards at the Royal Palace , located inwards the Old Town ( Gamla Stan ), happens daily during the summertime too is a pop lawsuit to watch. The guards genuinely march, accompanied yesteryear a armed services b and, from the Army Museum or Calvary Barracks (when mounted) through the urban marrow earlier arriving at the Palace. At the Palace the ceremony takes simply about forty minutes. The parade itself takes most one-half an hr too the ceremony at the Palace starts at 12:15 Mon through Saturday too 1:15 on Sundays too holidays . During the balance of the yr the changing of the guards happens on Wednesdays, Saturdays too Sundays. After watching the changing of the guards, accept payoff of beingness at the Palace too see i of the many museums located there. Besides visiting the Royal Apartments , y'all tin give the sack too see The Treasury , Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities , too (my favorite) the Royal Armoury . Check the private websites (linked he...

Stockholm Past Times Gummibåt

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Photo by: Privat, sbgb. You lucky visitors coming to Stockholm on the get-go weekend of August... you lot convey as well as thus many fun things happening on Saturday, August 3rd! Not exclusively is the huge Gay Pride Parade going through the urban amount as well as concerts as well as fine art exhibits at the Music & Arts Festival , you besides convey something a chip to a greater extent than whimsical happening inwards the city: Stockholm past times Gummibåt ! Photo: Privat, sbgb Gummibåt agency "rubber boat" inwards Swedish... as well as the resultant is basically a fun trip downwards the canal Karlbergskanalen , on the due north coast of Kungsholmen, inwards safe boats. It is non a race, though at that topographic point is a start as well as finish, as well as it is opened upward to anyone amongst a safe boat (no fee). The class runs westward to east, ending simply earlier Kungsbron ( King's Bridge ). They are expecting over 700 boats as well as 1,000 participa...

A Rerun Of Summertime Stockholm Tips

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View of City Hall from the Western Bridge (Västerbron). We are inward the instant one-half of the summertime flavour together with I idea I would postal service a collection of older articles that tin assistance those of yous coming to watch us inward August (in illustration yous missed them earlier). Things to produce & come across every bit good every bit some eating seat tips! Just click on the links (in blue) to come upwardly to the article inward question... Getting to the Rival Hotel from Arlanda airport... whether by taxi or yesteryear the new, cheap commuter train . Several large festivals inward August . Otherwise at that topographic point is a whole calendar of summer events together with festivals . There are enough of fine art exhibitions going on inward the city... 3 large ones are Jean-Paul Gaultier at the Architecture & Design Center, Pop Art & Design at Moderna together with Helmut Newton at Fotografiska.  The classic fine art museum, National Museu...

Reading: The Millennium Trilogy

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The Millennium Trilogy is a serial of books, written past times Swedish writer Stieg Larsson , that cause got larn a world-wide sensation... nigh xxx meg books sold to date. The serial of criminal offense novels ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played With Fire together with The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest ) are gear upward mainly inwards Stockholm. I actually liked these books, specially the principal characters: investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist together with the asocial, eccentric hacker Lisbeth Salander. These books are perf ect reading earlier together with during your trip to Stockholm every bit most of the activity takes house on the isle of Södermalm . Blomkvist's habitation together with function every bit good every bit Salander's habitation are all a stone's throw from the Rival Hotel . Larsson is actually descriptive when describing the city. If the novels are an international sensation now... together with hence they are nigh ...

Tip #13 - Electrical Outlets, Voltage Adapters

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International Adapter For non that long agone people rarely travelled amongst electrical gadgets. Maybe the strange pilus dryer or electrical razor. These days everyone has something amongst them that they ask to plug inwards or charge... prison theatre mobile telephone phones, I-Phones, I-Pads, MP3 Players, laptops, cameras, etc; The fact that countries convey unlike outlets together with voltage has exceed away to a greater extent than of a occupation than it was for 10 years ago. Hotels, such equally the Rival Hotel (where I work), frequently offering electrical adapters for guests to borrow... but, because of the high demand, they create tend to run out of them. I highly recommend purchasing an interna tional adapter , particularly if yous are travelling to several countries on your trip. They are relatively inexpensive, neither bulky nor heavy together with easily purchased at whatever aiport or hardware store. This agency yous don't run the gamble of beingness without i on y...

Pittsburgh | Urban Core Of United States

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Pittsburgh is a metropolis of something similar 350,000 inwards Allegheny County, at the kernel of the Pittsburgh Region inwards southwestern Pennsylvania; break of inhabitants inwards its metropolitan share is something similar 2.4 million. It is arranged at the intersection of the Monongahela as well as Allegheny Rivers, which watch to cast the Ohio River. Pittsburgh's extraordinary territory has brought most a bizarre metropolis outline as well as a jumble of new neighborhood "pockets" amongst assorted ethnic as well as technology scientific discipline legacy.  Pittsburgh is the second-biggest metropolis inwards the U.s. Region of Pennsylvania, later on simply Philadelphia, as well as the district spot of Allegheny County. Locally, it grapples the biggest urban zone of both Appalachia as well as the Ohio River Valley.  The individuals of Pittsburgh are without a uncertainty what teach far such a particular spot. The metropolis has been molded past times its workers, w...

Crayfish Party

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It's simply a calendar week left until the traditional kickoff of crayfish flavor (August 8th), which is celebrated past times Swedes amongst a crayfish party ... kräftskiva inwards Swedish. This is i of Sweden's close enduring in addition to love gastronomical traditions. These days crayfish are imported from countries similar the US, Turkey in addition to PRC in addition to are sold year-round, but the tradition of eating them inwards August endures. The political party is celebrated amongst friends in addition to family, hopefully outdoors (weather permitting), amongst colorful tablecloths, plates in addition to newspaper lanterns. Revelers normally wearable bibs in addition to funny newspaper hats. The crayfish are cooked inwards a salty brine, seasoned amongst dill and served cold. Along amongst the crayfish i normally eats bread, rigid cheese in addition to other delicacies such every bit Västerbotten cheese pies. The traditional drinkable is beer in addition to snaps ...