Stockholm: an itinerary

I just copied my Amsterdam template to create my Stockholm itinerary and the intro from that is still applicable, so here it is: ! was visiting my brother in Dusseldorf in November 2021 (2023) so a quick long weekend (a full week long) trip to Scandinavia was needed! Here is my itinerary and recommendations from the Stockholm part of the trip!

*Note: Things I researched but didn’t end up doing are denoted with a `` (asterisk)*

Accommodation

I stayed at the Stallmästaregården, which is a beautiful old world propery located at the southern most tip of Hagaparken. It had good bus connectivity to the rest of the city however was far away from all the sites you would want to visit and had a lot of construction surrounding it!

Activities

• Museums:

  • Fotografiska - great photography museum - check the exhibitions before you go since they are all temporary exhibitions.

  • Skansen open-air museum*

  • National Museum of Art*

  • Museum of Modern Art*

  • The Vasa Museum* displays an almost fully intact 17th century warship that was salvaged from the bottom of the Baltic Sea. It sank on it’s maiden voyage in 1628 and is truly a sight to behold.

• Visit the IKEA at Kungens Kurva! The European IKEAs are better than the American ones and the Swedish ones are the top of class in terms of items available!

• Walk around Gamla Stan and hit up the following sites:

  • Riksdagshuset

  • Riksplan

  • Kungliga slottet

  • Nobel Prize Museum

  • St George and the Dragon Statue

  • Stockholm's narrowest street (Mårten Trotzigs gränd)

• Rosendals Trädgårds

• Skinnarviksberget to watch the sunset.

• Subway art tour (https://happiestoutdoors.ca/stockholm-subway-art/) - the subways in Stockholm are artistic masterpieces!

• Groceries at ICA or coop

  • https://heyexplorer.com/swedish-snacks/

  • https://heyexplorer.com/swedish-candies-sweets/

Food

• Meals

  • Barrels burger - best vegetarian burger I have had in a LONG time.

  • Omnipollos Hatt - great pizza and beers!

  • Rosendals Trädgårdskafé - everything is grown in the gardens on site - great vegetarian food!

  • Meatballs for the People

  • Pom & Flora - great all day breakfast! You can’t go wrong with anything!

  • Drinks

    • Lucy’s flower shop

  • STHLM Brunch club*

  • Cafe Pascal*

  • Gyldene Freden* one of the oldest pubs+restaurants in THE WORLD(300 years old).

• Bakeries - go there for an afternoon fika - coffee and cake

  • Fabrique

  • Lillebrors bageri

  • Ingrid*

  • Krumel cookies*

Shopping

• Swedish brands

  • Acne Archive

  • Designtorget

  • Svenskt Tenn

  • ARKET

  • COS

  • Acne Studios

  • & Other Stories

  • IKEA

• Second hand stores

  • Beyond Retro

  • HUMANA Second hand

  • POP Stockholm