We're in Scandinavia!

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Thurs 5/21: Over breakfast in a Stockhom suburb 

 We're starting this blog 5 days into our adventure.

At 5am on Sunday, Kevin drove us and Ruth (Eric's mom) to ELP.   We 4 flew to DFW, where Ruth caught at midday flight to Newark and the 3 of us caught a comfortable overnight Finnair flight to Helsinki. 















Helsinki is much as we remembered it from Pre-P days (before Peter) thanks to his being a somewhat veteran New York visitor, navigating transit has been easy for him and therefore us. Built during the transition from nouveau to deco, the architecture is more interesting to E and P.  We have been adjusting our itinerary aroud Peter because a happy teen is a happy family.  Not that he has undo influence but for now, we're happy to go where he's excited to go.



National Museum, Stockholm plus the Archetecture and Design museum with the latter being free.  National museum built much like the the Met, has a lovely collection of classical sculpture within an outdoor/indoor courtyard. Very familiar but prettier and smaller.  Big surprise to me, the national museum was not free.  Eric was impressed by the explicit sexuality in nordic 17th century art.


Beautiful weather so far during Scandic Spring.  We walked to Gammla Stan, the old town, crowded with tourists for the 'ye olde towne' experience. Lovely tiny narrow streets, polychromatic buildings looking much like Venice. They have canals here too. Charming effect when its all in bloom.  Scandinavians are sun worshipers. No surprise, lunchtime crowds cover steps and streets faces pointed toward the sun for a few months of warmth and light.



We have stayed in two hotels and one overnight boat so far.  I (susan) cannot decide whether I like the nomadic life.  Something we agree on: having enough money to not worry about keeping within budget would be sublime.  Not too cushioned from reality or daily life but enough to not worry about the cost of meals and hotels. 

Oh yes, our complete set of tooy many photos are being posted to https://photos.app.goo.gl/P3ZXHs7xuchsrHui9


Comments

  1. RuthMay 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM

    Please keep us informed about where you are.I love your blog

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  2. PaulMay 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM

    Looking forward to seeing the pictures. I’ll go there next.

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  3. David FMay 24, 2026 at 7:05 AM

    Ken and I loved our visit to Stockholm and Copenhagen which we captured in Wanderlog. Have fun

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