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Since my stays in Copenhagen and Oslo also left me with “so little time,” you might wonder why I reserved that description for Stockholm. The city is so dense with museums – nearly 100 – that it simply makes sense. …

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Stockholm and Nobel. As it does in Norway, Stockholm’s city hall serves more than merely an administrative purpose. It sits along the banks of lake Mälaren – a 160-kilometer-long freshwater lake that stretches from the Baltic far to the west …

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Quick. Think of an island city with lots of canals. I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that the first city that came to mind was Venice, Italy. And with good reason. It’s the oldest, the showiest, the …