{"id":531,"date":"2014-10-21T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:39:14","slug":"not-just-swedish-meatballs-stockholm-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2014\/10\/21\/not-just-swedish-meatballs-stockholm-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Swedish Meatballs: Stockholm, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know where Stockholm is? Hopefully you do by my lovely blog post title now. \u00a0I’m going to be honest though, before I booked the trip to Stockholm, I wasn’t sure if it was in Sweden or Switzerland. \u00a0But now that I am practically a swedish native, I could never be mistaken again. \u00a0Stockholm is a city made up of islands: almost 30,000 islands. \u00a0It is connected through a series of bridges with both car lanes, bike lanes, and walking lanes. \u00a0I couldn’t help but compare Stockholm to Copenhagen in my head (see my last post). \u00a0Stockholm was much bigger and not as english friendly, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. \u00a0There were eight of us in total on this trip. \u00a0It is a lot harder to travel with eight people, then say, four people. \u00a0No one really wanted to make an executive decision and it was a lot harder to balance out what everyone wanted to do. \u00a0Therefore, we ended up doing a lot of walking around. \u00a0Like fourteen miles worth of walking on the first day alone. \u00a0We explored back alleyways and found beautiful fountains (image 1). \u00a0I actually loved all of the walking, that’s the best way to find things! \u00a0We walked all through Old Town, Gamla Stan, and found the royal castle along with the changing of the guards (image 2). \u00a0From almost everywhere on Gamla Stan you can see water and the views are breathtaking. \u00a0My favorite view though was from the island next to Gamla Stan,\u00a0S\u00f6dermalm (image 3). \u00a0We had to climb up a rocky hill a relatively steep incline to obtain that great picture at sunset. \u00a0After this view my second favorite thing was eating the Swedish Meatballs at the restaurant Pelikan. \u00a0They were so yummy and they came with a fantastic brown sauce and mashed potatoes (image 4). \u00a0Thankfully my friend Allison loves food as much as me so we split Swedish Apple Pie afterwards. \u00a0Now I can officially say I ate\u00a0the<\/em> food of Sweden. \u00a0Even though the majority of our time we spent walking or eating, we did manage to squeeze in a canal tour of all the bridges. \u00a0It was just about a two hour tour of us going under at least fourteen bridges and learning about the history of Stockholm, as well as seeing many amazing sites. \u00a0For example, I never knew that the water surrounding Stockholm was the Baltic Sea meeting Lake\u00a0M\u00e4laren. \u00a0I never saw myself going to a place like Stockholm while I was abroad, but I am so glad I went! It was beautiful and different from any other city I’ve been to!<\/p>\n

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Do you know where Stockholm is? Hopefully you do by my lovely blog post title now. \u00a0I’m going to be honest though, before I booked the trip to Stockholm, I wasn’t sure if it was in Sweden or Switzerland. \u00a0But now that I am practically a swedish native, I could never be mistaken again. \u00a0Stockholm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qmul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18223,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/18223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}