Stockholm in Winter – Trip overview and places visited

My son was successful in his application for International Student Exchange Program with a university in Stockholm. This meant that he would be staying in Stockholm for 6 months from January 2017 to May 2017.  I thought it would be a good opportunity for me and my wife to go with him, partly to help him settle down in the new environment and also partly for us to revisit a city we had lived in...

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Stockholm in Winter – Arrival at Arlanda via Finnair and settling down

14 January 2017 We flew to Stockholm via Helsinki using Finnair. We departed from Singapore Changi airport on AY082 at 23:35 hour.  This was my first time on a Finnair flight and I was pleasantly surprised by the nice clean and spacious Airbus A350 plane, reasonable good food and large touch-screen entertainment system.  A useful feature in the entertainment system is a time-table showing...

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Stockholm in Winter – shopping at Drottingatan and dinner in Sodermalm area ( @ Meatball for the People restaurant)

15 January 2017  This was a relatively relaxing day where our plan was to go shop for some essential items for the boys’ apartment before their academic term starts. One of Stockholm's most popular streets is Drottninggatan ("Queen Street"). This pedestrian street runs north to south for almost 2 kilo-meters. There are many shops and boutiques along this street. We started near the Hotorget...

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Stockholm in Winter – exploring northern Södermalm, Gamla Stan, Skeppsholmen and Kungsträdgården

16 January 2017 The adults in our group woke up early. While having our breakfast, I noticed that it was snowing outside. Snow flurries was forecasted, so I was half expecting that. I woke the girls up and there were squeals of excitement as they whipped out their smartphones to take videos of the falling snow. Living in a country near the equator, experiencing snowfall for the first time was an...

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Stockholm in Winter – Shopping for shoes and clothes for millennial generation

17 January 2017 We spent the morning at my son’s apartment meeting up with Patrick (Airbnb Host) to get some things done up in the apartment while he was away in the university. Once done, we went to the city centre to meet up with him and have lunch at Kajsas Fisk at Hotorgshallen. Its signature dish is fisksoppa (fish soup) which was very good and tasty. It came with free flow of bread and salad. ...

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Stockholm in Winter – Monteliusvägen and Söder Mälarstrand for best views

18 January 2017 Monteliusvägen is one of the best places to enjoy panoramic views of Stockholm.  The 416m walking path is between Kattgränd on the west and Skolgränd on the east.  To get to this place, we took the subway to the Slussen T-bana station and walked the rest of the way to Skolgränd.  First glimpse of the awesome view. I kicked myself for forgetting to bring...

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