KIOSK HELLO

The same friend asked me for shop­ping / store tips in Stock­holm, this I come up fairly empty on as the dol­lar is so piti­ful in Swe­den I have not shopped there for any­thing but food and booze for many years. But well.…ok, I pop into these places, yes yes
Acne Sam­ple Sale Store
at the cor­ner of […]

Eat­ing out in Stock­holm can be expen­sive. Here are our sug­ges­tions. I eat Swedish food when I am in Swe­den and I mainly I like to go to tra­di­tional places.
En Flicka på Gaffeln
Not tra­di­tional, but very Swedish in a way…we had a party there in Sep­tem­ber, food GREAT, atmos­phere GREAT, can’t wait to go back, […]

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Another friend is going to Stock­holm– I wish I was there to host! — but instead I offer these updated tips to him and any­one else read­ing this post. I hope the weather is good, it can be iffy at this time of year. My sug­ges­tion is visit from April 15 — Sept 15 and […]

Con­trary to it being passé or not I have always loved Ing­mar Bergman. I read his auto­bi­og­ra­phy, Marco and I met on the island of Fårö where he had his home, when I first moved to Swe­den I talked the Swedish Insti­tute into loan­ing me copies of their Eng­lish sub­ti­tled Bergman films they sent to […]

Look what we found in an antique store in Stock­holm! None other than our very own bird­house — a tried and true design that has housed birds in Swe­den for generations!

so long!

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my friend asked for cheap eats in stock­holm
here is the list I sent her!
CENTER:
Sosta:
for cof­fee and sand­wich, day­time only
84 sveav­agen between the cen­ter and oden­plan
Tel: 6121349
Vete-katten:
cen­ter near hotor­get
cafe for lunch, swedish tra­di­tional for a shrimp sand­wich and cof­fee / cake
Kungs­gatan 55
Tel: 208405
Kajsas:
fish restau­rant in the cen­ter for lunch only!
located in Hötorgshallen, the […]

two more for stock­holm, vin­tage shops…
if you like kitchen items, glass, ceramic from Swe­den rang­ing from the mid-1800’s till the 1970’s then please go to:
Ala Carte Antik
Rid­dar­gatan 11 A
tel: 661 9988
–oster­malm–
then, one of my favorite stores in the world, she has an eye like NO OTHER, really bril­lant stuff from 1900 — 1970. She is shar­ing the […]

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some more things from Stock­holm I am remem­ber­ing:
A lovely, lit­tle, old flower shop where the man is as uplift­ing as the flow­ers. Open on Sun­days too from 10 — 15.00! Good to know if you are going to visit fam­ily. We got one amaz­ing peach glad­i­o­lus there and peo­ple were mes­mer­ized by it when I […]

And, if you don’t have much money on you or are not into shop­ping…
my favorite muse­ums in Stock­holm:
Thiel­ska Gal­leriet, on Djurgår­den
http://www.thielska-galleriet.se/
Bio­log­i­cal Museum, on Djurgår­den, amaz­ing diaro­mas
http://www.biologiskamuseet.com/
Mod­ern Museum on Skepp­shol­men, good cafe there too
http://www.modernamuseet.se/index.asp?bhcp=1
favorite park:
Haga Parken — located in the north of the city
you can rent a kayak here, from the Brunnsvikens Kanotklubb, one of the best things […]