Nosher helps get a car out from an ice trap
A Few Hours in Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden - 17th December 2007
On our last full day in Sweden, we wander over to Skansen on the outskirts of Stockholm - apparently the oldest open-air museum in the world. When we get there, we discover that there's a large outdoor Christmas market occuring, full of curio stalls and smoking fires cooking herrings and pancakes. Afterwards, we wander around some of the exhibits, including candle-lit buildings, tin working, printing and apothecaries. Following an evening out in Gamla Stan and a return to the Victory Hotel, we head out to the airport at Västerås on a chilly -9°C morning.
next album: Qualcomm Cambridge's Christmas, Hotel Felix, Cambridge - 20th December 2007
previous album: Gamla Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden - 16th December 2007
Brightly decorated post boxes
Another decorated post box
Demolition looks more like a bomb has gone off
A scene of demolition
A wheelie trolley is pulled through a steel tunnel
A discarded newspaper and frozen coffee
A horse waits to cross the road at a pedestrian crossing
Boats on the quayside
At the entrance to Skansen, we warm up for a bit
People roam around in period dress
Traditional Christmas food in a huge smoking pan
Sausages are chopped up
Working with wheat
Herrings are readied for cooking on an open fire
Flamed herrings
It looks like the 19th Century
Thick pancakes are fried in a deep layer of fat
We stop off to warm up with a spot of Glügg
An old dude tries to make a phone call
Isobel gets friendly with a pony
Isobel gives a pony a scratch
Festive singing in a candle-lit 18th Century church
More Skansen buildings
A Skansen apothecary shop
A metalworker's bench
A dude does some tin work
In a printing workshop
A woman shows off some prints
A woman hand-paints some printed illustrations
Melting glass in a furnace
A couple of dudes demonstrate the art of glassmaking
More demonstration of glass making
A night-time view over Stockholm
Down in a subway
A tram waits outside the Natural History museum
A car park somewhere
We're back on the cobbled streets of Gamla Stan
Don't exit if you see flames or brains
Passengers disembark the flight at Stansted
A lonely bag goes around and around at Stansted
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Nosher helps get a car out from an ice trap
Nosher helps get a car out from an ice trap
Brightly decorated post boxes
Another decorated post box
Demolition looks more like a bomb has gone off
A scene of demolition
A wheelie trolley is pulled through a steel tunnel
A discarded newspaper and frozen coffee
A horse waits to cross the road at a pedestrian crossing
Boats on the quayside
At the entrance to Skansen, we warm up for a bit
People roam around in period dress
Traditional Christmas food in a huge smoking pan
Sausages are chopped up
Working with wheat
Herrings are readied for cooking on an open fire
Flamed herrings
It looks like the 19th Century
Thick pancakes are fried in a deep layer of fat
We stop off to warm up with a spot of Glügg
An old dude tries to make a phone call
Isobel gets friendly with a pony
Isobel gives a pony a scratch
Festive singing in a candle-lit 18th Century church
More Skansen buildings
A Skansen apothecary shop
A metalworker's bench
A dude does some tin work
In a printing workshop
A woman shows off some prints
A woman hand-paints some printed illustrations
Melting glass in a furnace
A couple of dudes demonstrate the art of glassmaking
More demonstration of glass making
A night-time view over Stockholm
Down in a subway
A tram waits outside the Natural History museum
A car park somewhere
We're back on the cobbled streets of Gamla Stan
Don't exit if you see flames or brains
Passengers disembark the flight at Stansted
A lonely bag goes around and around at Stansted