Stockholm Past Times Gummibåt

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 participants this year! They create encourage people to come upward inwards costume. Looking at the pictures from terminal year, people dressed upward every bit Smurfs, Vikings, Baywatch lifeguards, Kiss Army as well as more. Fun! The resultant starts at 10am so, if you lot innovation smartly, you lot tin picket the boats earlier heading to the Pride parade, which starts at 1pm, earlier going on to run into a concert at the Music & Arts Festival inwards the evening.
The canal on a quieter day...
I lately wrote about the waterfront promenade inwards this expanse as well as how this is a overnice house to pass a relaxing summertime twenty-four hours inwards Stockholm... similar a shot you lot convey some other argue (Swedes acting silly). The easiest way to larn to the "race course" from the Rival Hotel is past times taking the subway, dark-green line, from Slussen to Fridhemsplan.

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