Plus 5 Celsius is fairly warm, right? Not when the wind is 56 km/hour blowing off the water!
Today I went to Djurgården, a large park on the Stockholm harbour.
I started by walking through the churchyard that is across from the hotel (and that my window looks out on.) It is also like a park, with paths and large trees and benches -- and once again, graves.
The name of the church is St. Johannes, and it was built in 1890 -- so it is actually quite new, compared to some of the others.
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| The owner of this bike is obviously a kindred spirit! |
From here I went down some stairs, and then up some other stairs
and then through Humlegarden Park. This is a lovely park, with tree-lined walkways and a beautiful old building housing National Library of Sweden. And of course, more statues.
This statue is of "Linne" -- Carl Linnaeus
In this park, I also began my study of the Stockholm Saturday night drinking culture:
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| street named after Linnaeus |
I passed this building -- a market hall, built in 1888. It wasn't open, but apparently it has stalls with different types of merchandise, including reindeer meat. But it is described as "very expensive," so maybe I didn't miss much!
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