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Riddarholmen, the burial church of the Swedish monarchs, right beside my hotel
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my hotel - booked on Expedia; I didn't know it was another boat!
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view of City Hall (where Nobel Prize banquet is held annually) from beside my hotel
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just outside City Hall
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looking over to Gamla Stan, my hotel is moored on the far right
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on City Hall tour, this is the Blue Hall - the Nobel banquet is held here; called Blue because they had planned to paint the red bricks originally
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inaugurated in 1923, that is fake water damage up in the corner to make the building look older than it is
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tour guide Anna on the right
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Golden Hall, filled with mosaics of Swedish history
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climbing to top of City Hall tower
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my hotel on the left, Globen on the right
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looking west along Riddarfjärden
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Gamla Stan, Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace) is on the far left in the background
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many sculptures inside the tower
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the view from my room at Mälardrottningen Hotel
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narrow streets in Gamla Stan
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Royal Palace
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Storkyrkan viewed from in front of the Royal Palace
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Royal guard
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Riksdag, the Swedish Parliament
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Vasamuseet viewed from my 360 degree walk around Skeppsholmen
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Tivoli Gröna Lund (Green Grove)
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at Stadion metro station
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main entrance of Stockholms Stadion, host of the 1912 Olympics
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medal winners
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the rest of the medal winners
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it was free to go in, although I had to find the open entrance
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sometimes called the Venice of the North - I think that's a more appropriate term for Amsterdam though
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in the Vasamuseet; the Vasa was a Swedish warship built in the 1620's, which sank on its maiden voyage
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it was pulled from the bottom of the Stockholm harbour in 1961, largely intact
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only 5% of the ship is reconstructed
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many intricate sculptures on the outside of the ship
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Globen, host of the IIHF World Hockey Championship games that weren't at Hartwall Areena in Helsinki
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Globen metro stop; south of the city centre much of the metro is above ground
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Resurrection Statue at Skogskyrkogården, a large park/cemetery
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Arlanda Express from Centralstation to the airport
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