Easter isn’t the best time to visit Stockholm. The trees are bare and it can be drab and chilly, but the weather couldn’t dampen our enthusiasm for the Swedish capital. I actually had very few preconceptions about it. I knew it as a city of water, islands and ludicrously priced alcohol. I knew it as home to…
Category: Sweden
The Vasa – Stockholm’s star attraction
As a teenager I watched on TV as the battered remains of the Tudor warship Mary Rose was rescued from the muddy depths of the Solent. Some years later we visited Portsmouth to see her skeletal remains, now preserved and the centrepiece of a museum. Hers was a remarkable story of survival beneath the seabed,…