Home - 2004 - Stockholm


Photographer: Josh Eckels


Somebody did a rather lackluster testing job on the in-flight entertainment. Note the bet.

Sassy salt

View from the hotel

Stadshuset (town hall) at dusk

Bridge from Gamla Stan (Old Town)

The river gives you the finger

Crazy sculpture on Skeppsholmen

Crazy sculpture on Skeppsholmen

Gronalund

Streets of Gamla Stan at dusk

Drick Coca-Cola, or Coke Light if you must

Gas station in a tunnel

Outside of the hotel

Inside my room

Inside my room

Inside my bathroom

Church in Gamla Stan

Gamla Stan in the twilight

Gamla Stan in the twilight

Black church spire at night

Black church spire at night

Black church spire at night

Stadshuset lit up at night

The BEA office building

Olof, Helena, Jill, Anna, and Marcus at the Ice Bar

Nothing but Geniune Torne River Ice

Somehow cleaner than water, apparently

Me at the Ice Bar wearing the supplied 1970s Sci-Fi outfit

Me at the Ice Bar wearing the supplied 1970s Sci-Fi outfit

Ice Bar, sponsored by your friends at Absolut

Marcus, Olof, Helena, Jill, and Anna posing around the table

BEAmazing indeed

Statue in Gamla Stan

Streets of Gamla Stan

Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace)

Cannons in the courtyard at the palace

View from the courtyard

Jill at the palace

Looking for a souvenir that fits Britt's demanding specifications

Church all lit up at night

Gamla Stan on the walk to the office

Jill eager to get back to work

A look down the cliff on the road to work

Gamla Stan on the walk to the office

Palace at night

Riksdaghuset (Parliament House) on Helgeandsholmen

Lion at the palace

The palace at night

Eerie glow from the WC

Steps up to the palace courtyard

Magnus Ladulas, in Galma Stan

Gray's American Food Store in case you can't go another second without some Cheerios

Main tower at the city hall

Additional tower at city hall

Inner yard at the city hall

City hall

Don't worry, the lift breaks all the time

Halfway up the tower

Halfway up the tower

Looking back down into the yard

St George gives the dragon's throat a little tickle

Gamla Stan from the top of the tower

Looking east from the top of the tower

North of the tower

Jill and Gamla Stan

Embossings on the tower railing

Copper columns at the top of the tower

Partly cloudy weather indeed

Inner structure of the tower

Birger Jarl?

Tower from the courtyard

Yet another church

From the front door

Pipe organ

Neat ceiling

Yet another church


Welcome to Skansen

Settlement at Skansen

Settlement at Skansen

Settlement at Skansen

Sami camp at Skansen

High-rise doghouse

Reindeer at Skansen

Big building at Skansen

More Scandinavian critters

Owl hiding in the foilage

Bear cubs after their wrestling match

Oink oink

Yak or something similar

Belltower at Skansen

Settlement at Skansen

One of the windmills at Skansen

A small, octagonal house

Settlement at Skansen

The smallest cottage you'll ever see

Church at Skansen

Tower at Skansen, previously a spa

A strange hairy pole

Back of the Vasa

Side view of the Vasa

Deck of the Vasa

Back of the Vasa, gunports visible

What the Vasa looked like in the short while before it sank

Hostel on a ship

Crown on the bridge

Well in the square in Gamla Stan

Britt eagerly anticipating his present

Swedish underwear!

A real conversation-starter on his office wall

 

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