stranded

This oversized boat lies stranded in Hallunda, one of the suburbs of Stockholm. Wait a minute... that's no boat - it's a church! Who would have known? It's called "Church of the light", inaugurated in Dec 2004. This has to be one of the strangest churches I've come across so far. Someday I might be curious enough to try to sneak into it. Time will tell.

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Ljusets Kyrka i Hallunda har en rätt särpräglad form. Kanske är det Noaks ark?

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Church of the light (map) 30 Dec 2007

light rail to Sickla Udde

(No, it's not subway day quite yet.)

Our light rail system Tvärbanan has become a huge success. Initial skepticism from politicians in various parties has been replaced with an eagerness to have the network extended into the suburbs. Here's a rail car at Gullmarsplan ready to continue the short remaining distance to it's destination Sickla Udde. Bernt has been here too.

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Steg för steg mot en fullskalig come-back för spårvagnarna, drygt 40 år efter att rälsen revs upp i sta'n

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Gullmarsplan (map) 20 Jan 2008

water castle

I think this may be one of the classiest water tanks I have ever seen. It's more like a water castle. The beauty is positioned on top of a fairly small hill in Vanadislunden (Vanadis grove).

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Vanadislundens vattenreservoir (map) 2 January 2008

waiting for tickets

It seems to be a fairly common thing nowadays, to wait outside a store for tickets to be released. I found these guys waiting outside the Concert Hall at Hötorget. Hmmmm - I wonder which performer they are waiting for? Must be Papageno in the Magic Flute (Mozart).

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.Först trodde jag att de spelade Fågelhandlaren (Carl Zeller) på Konserthuset men sedan slog det mig att det kanske var Trollflöjtens Papageno som de väntade på

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Concert Hall (map) 27 Dec 2007

history in the making

photo #900 on pixels since October 19, 2005

Sweden's cultural history is on display seven days a week by Djurgårdsvägen. The island of Djurgården is jam-packed with attractions and Nordiska museet ("the Nordic Museum") is the very first you encounter after passing the Djurgården Bridge. You won't miss it, it's not exactly smallish. Here is a misty view by Stefan.

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Utställningen Masker öppnar 21 feb, läs mer här

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Nordiska museet (map) 13 Jan 2008

Riddarfjärden

City Hall and the Hötorg City (high-rise buildings illuminated in green) on the other side of Riddarfjärden. In the foreground a couple of boats tied up at Söder Mälarstrand. On some boats people live, on others they work and still on others they seem to do nothing. On Söder Mälarstrand there are also four or five hotel/hostel boats, like the Red Boat.

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Söder Mälarstrand (map), 16 Dec 2007

daily photo theme day: Queen of Lake Mälaren

If there's one defining quality of Stockholm that people could agree on, it'd have to be the water. Located on several islands at the mouth of Lake Mälaren and by a spectacular archipelago, the city is embedded in water. We travel across our waterways, we fish in the inner city and during those flickering short moments of Nordic summer we swim in this surprisingly clean water.

Any person having visited Stockholm even just briefly will remember the water. There is no immediate shortage of photos ;) of this our main attraction and, to celebrate the February theme day, here's yet another one. It was shot by the Parliament (Riksdagen), we can see the Vasa Bridge and, lurking in the background, the well-known tower of our City Hall. At this time of year the city should have a distinct winter look but January 2008 didn't bring us any winter weather.

Here is more moist from different seasons. And here. Enjoy!

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Kalla det gärna en kliché. Vem vill inte leva mitt i en så'n?
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Riksbron (map) 23 Jan 2008

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