Cruising Lake Malaren to visit Drottningholm Palace, oh and walking 5km to do some laundry! For our last day in Stockholm we decided to catch a ferry into Lake Malaren to see Drottningholm Palace and its gardens. Stockholm sits at the mouth of Lake Malaren, where it drains into […]
Cruising the Stockholm archipelago Evening blog fans and welcome one of the best days of our lives! We spent our Sunday cruising the Stockholm archipelago on the SS Waxholm III and it was AWESOME. We covered over 150km on our 12 hour cruise, stopping at a few of […]
We spent our 20th anniversary in Stockholm! Today is officially our 20th anniversary so we decided to celebrate with a year off and a trip around the world. We don’t put a lot of weight on ceremony or grand gestures so we aren’t doing anything too spectacular for today; […]
Sailing into Stockholm – what a way to start the day! Thanks to a 4:00am sunrise and thin curtains our day started nice and early. By 6:00am we were up on the top deck of the ship, watching as the first islands of the Stockholm archipelago came into […]
Farewell Finland – we’re off to Sweden! Our week in Finland is up already and tonight we’re sleeping aboard the Tallink Silja ship “Serenade”. The Serenade is one of a fleet of ferries that go between Stockholm and Helsinki, across the Northern Baltic Sea. It’s a huge ship […]