The Travel Nut

The first thing I will say about Stockholm, is the way we got there on the ship, was just stunning! We sailed through the Stockholm Archipelago, which is made of 30,000 islands. Perfect scenery to make use of our balcony, as we were able to admire it on the way in and the way out 🙂

This stop was part of our two week cruise through Northern Europe and Scandinavia. If you want to read the full blog post (and beware, it is huge!) you can access this by clicking here.

It is beyond beautiful and my photo’s do not do it justice in the slightest!

As we pulled up in port, the first thing we could see from the ship was Gronalund, the theme park, so of course, that’s where we headed. Although, we did stop off at Vasa Museum first!

Vasa Museum is dedicated to the Vasa ship, which when completed, was 69 metres long and more than 50 metres tall from the keel to the top of the main mast. The ship weighed over 1200 tonnes once outfitted with ten sails, 64 cannons, 120 tonnes of ballast and hundreds of sculptures. After taking years to build, the ship was laying on the sea bed 32 metres below, within minutes of it being launched.

The museum is really interesting; tells the full story from the ideas to the build to the current day. There were loads of exhibits including videos and interactive pieces. It has replicas of the ornate detailing around the ship which are all painted with the colours they understand to have been used at the time.

From here, we continued walking along the waterfront and made our way to Gronalund. Along the way we passed other museums and some outside art exhibitions. I would definitely love to come back and spend some time here as there was so much to do!

Again, we DIY’ed this excursion, so we bought our tickets on the machine outside. The park was really quiet first thing, so we managed to get on some of the big coasters straight away and stayed on them twice, before having to get off as small queues were gathering. (After 2 straight upside coasters, I was glad to go on a much smaller kids ghost train; for my benefit not the boys!!).

This park seemed a lot smaller than Linnanmaki, the rides seemed much closer and some of them were almost intertwined, but it still felt quiet. Perfect for us, and as it was so quiet, we were able to tick off most of the rides.

Before we left the park we did eat at the burger place; Hekto – Pontonen. They offered both meat and vegan burgers so we could all eat here easily, and they were absolutely delicious! None of us left a crumb!

From Gronalund, we caught a taxi back to the City where we saw the Opera House, City Hall, the Royal Palace just to name a few buildings.

Again, I definitely don’t think we had enough time in Stockholm to really explore it properly, so I would definitely head back for a weekend trip in the future to explore more of the city.

If you’d like more information about any of the destinations visited, or want to book your own cruise or holiday, please either comment on this blog, or you can contact me via my page Lisa Craddock Experience It Now Travel.