No Abba in sight. Or, is that the Skansen Queen?

(Disclaimer: Yes, I know the correct pronunciation is SKAHN-sn but you probably didn’t know that and you do know that I’m compulsive.) After my visit to the Vasa Museum, I took another peek at the queue outside the Abba Museum and, thinking …

Taking Stock (holm): So much to see, so little time. Or, Vasa up, Doc?

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. …

How Sweden it is! – part 2

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 …