{"id":24340,"date":"2016-10-04T16:46:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=24340"},"modified":"2021-06-27T12:03:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:03:59","slug":"walking-gamla-stan-old-town-stockholm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/walking-gamla-stan-old-town-stockholm\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Gamla Stan, Old Town Stockholm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zagan the motorhome’s back in his original fantastic parking spot on the island of Skeppsholmen (N59.32438, E18.08844<\/a>), we prefer this spot because we have neighbours in the form of boats moored up next to us. One side of Zagan being splashed with rays reflected from the Baltic Sea as the sun steadily rides over Stockholm. To my right, squinting past the glare, I can see the huge white side of the Birka, a cruise ship which runs out through the archipelago to the south and east. The Viking Line Cinderella rode into port yesterday as I was failing to catch fish from Kastellholmen (the adjacent island), looking for all the world like it would ram the city as it spun on a six-pence, before easing into place alongside the dock. When these boats depart, they’re so enormous, it feels like the city’s calved a piece of itself to the sea.<\/p>\n

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Gamla Stan from Skeppsholmen<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are ladders here along with life belts. I couldn’t work out why (they have them against lakes too, which have no wall to climb), but Ju’s nailed it I think – the brackish Baltic Sea freezes…?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Big coats on folks – sunny but down to 10 degrees now, only 4 degrees at night<\/p><\/div>\n

Hey, what can I say, the past couple of days have been well used doing not much! The location of the parking isn’t helping me want to get out and about, as it feels like it’s all come here to me. The island behind me’s calm, green and amber, and leafy. The Baltic glints as a few tourists wander past, some setting up tripods and photographing the views across to S\u00f6dermalm. In front of me folks are living on small yachts and motorboats anchored in between us and a view of Gr\u00f6na Lund on Djurg\u00e5rden. This, to me, is a wonderful place to be.<\/p>\n