Day 12: Old Town

The island of Gamla Stan is Stockholm's 'Old Town' and it is where we chose to spend Tuesday 20th November.

Gamla Stan

Storkyrkan Church and Cathedral

Tyska Kyrkan.

There was no way to get a proper photo of this church as it was 'boxed in' by other buildings.

 Marten Trotzigs Grand is Stockholm's narrowest lane-way at 90cm

Riddarhuset
This was used by the Swedish parliament in the 16th century.

Riddarholmskyrkan

Gamla Stan appeared to be full of churches and I loved the architecture of them (ironic perhaps for someone who does not like religion?). Mostly we wandered the cobblestone streets, peering into windows and occasionally buying something. 

Gamla Stan streets

Kungliga Slottet is a palace with 608 rooms

After finishing up on Gamla Stan, we wandered back through 'our' neighbourhood, searching for stores that had been recommended to us. We also came across St. Jakobs Kyrka and a large ice-skating rink which had people setting up Christmas Markets around it (although unfortunately the markets were not due to open until 2 days after we left Stockholm). For dinner, we decided we would find something on our very long street. This proved harder than we first thought as there either wasn't vegetarian options, the menu's were in Swedish and we couldn't figure out if they were vegetarian, or they were too expensive. Finally after walking the whole street (it spans a large part of our 'island'), we settled on an Asian restaurant back towards our hotel. We were originally judgemental because of it's name but it was really very yummy. It's hard to take a restaurant seriously when it is named Ping Pong.

  St. Jakobs Kyrka. Love the colour!