Stockholm, Sweden

12/27/2019 -- 12/31/2019

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Situated in Northern Europe, Sweden lies west of the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia, providing a long coastline, and forms the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula.  Stockholm is the capital and most populous urban area of Sweden (approximately 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area).  The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea.  Stockholm has an oceanic climate with humid continental influences, and it has relatively mild weather compared to other locations at a similar latitude, or even farther south.   Due to the city's high northerly latitude, the length of the day varies widely from more than 18 hours around midsummer to only around 6 hours in late December. 

Getting there ...

We were visiting Linus in Boston during Christmas, and we continued our winter vacation together from Boston.  We had separate flights on 12/26 night (Linus and Miriam was on Lufthansa via Munich, while we were on  SWISS Air via Zurich) and re-grouped at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in the late afternoon on 12/27.  Linus' flight was scheduled to arrive about 30 minutes earlier than us.  But their flight got delayed in Munich and became one hour later than ours.  We stayed in Stockholm for 4 nights and then continued to Kiruna for another 4 nights.

 

 

[Sweden Part I: Stockholm]  [Sweden Part II: Kiruna]

12/28 (Day 2)  ... 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

12/29 (Day 3) ...

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

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12/31 (Day 5) ...

We concluded our Stockholm vacation with different routes:  Linus and Miriam will fly back to Boston later today, and Woanyu, Iris, and I will go further north to Kiruna (90 miles within Arctic circle) to continue our 2nd part of Sweden tour [Sweden Part II: Kiruna]; the real winter adventure began!


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