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Hostels that I stayed in Stockholm and Gothenburg

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Tere!

I don’t basically choose hotels on my solo trips. Since I came to know using hostels when I was about to go to Ireland in 2015, fundamentally the accommodations during my trips are hostels. At that time, I happened to tell my Irish teacher in my university in Japan “I can’t move into the student accommodation right after arrival in Ireland, I think I need to book a hotel room for a few days” and he suggested to me “Why don’t you stay in a hostel? It’s cheaper”, which was the beginning. Since then, I have used hostels wherever I have travelled. (As a student, due to the flight schedules or airports’ locations, occasionally I had no choice but to stay in B&B.)

In the countryside there are more B&B accommodations, and it’s hard to find a hostel whilst in cities (almost) always there are hostels. Of course, there are hostels in Stockholm and Gothenburg. (Of course of “of course”.) In this article, I will talk about the hostels that I used on a trip to Sweden in March, 2022.

Table of Contents

1. Stockholm – Crafoord Place Hostel
     a. Super long on-hold booking
     b. Dusty?
     c. Overall review on Crafoord Place Hostel

2. Gothenburg – Backpackers Göteborg
     a. Location of the Backpackers Göteborg hostel
     b. Facilities in the Backpackers Göteborg hostel
     c. Overall review on the Backpackers Göteborg hostel

★Summary

1. Stockholm – Crafoord Place Hostel

Firstly, I’m going to discuss the hostel in Stockholm. In Stockholm I stayed in the hostel called Crafoord Place Hostel. This was my fourth visit to Stockholm. Depending on dates, times, and situations, the reasonable hostels vary, so this was my first time staying in Crafoord Place Hostel.

a. Super long on-hold booking

I booked Crafoord Place Hostel so as to go to a gig by Louis Tomlinson from One Direction, and yet the gig had been postponed owing to COVID, I had to change the booking dates in Crafoord Place Hostel as well. Initially I booked a bed via Hostelworld, but I directly communicated with Crafoord Place Hostel about putting off the booking.

When changing the booking details, I explained to them “I booked a bed because I planned to go to an event in Stockholm, but the event was postponed, and I don’t know the new date yet” and then they gave me a due date for rebooking for some months.

Before reaching the due date, I contacted Crafoord Place Hostel again, and they gave me another due date for rebooking as it was still in the middle of the pandemic.

After a while, I finally rebooked in 2022. Although it’s Crafoord Place Hostel’s business, they had been waiting for me very patiently. However, since the three-year waiting time made me forget the details of the booking, I thought I would stay in a mixed dormitory, but actually it was a female dormitory. (I was betrayed with my expectation in a good way.)

b. Dusty?

Crafoord Place Hostel was kind of dusty. Or maybe the room where I stayed rather than the entire Crafoord Place Hostel hostel? The room window was always open, and my bed was just under the window. At that time, in Stockholm due to its season, the city was so dusty, and I saw sandstorms several times. Hence, it was dusty in the hostel because of the city environment rather than the uncleanliness of the hostel.

In the hostel I shared a room with some other girls, so while I was out, they opened the window, the dust constantly came into the room. Ah….

c. Overall review on Crafoord Place Hostel

As an overall review to Crafoord Place Hostel, the hostel was okay in my opinion.

The biggest con is that there was no microwave in the kitchen. Also, there were few mags and cutleries either.

The bathroom was not problematic though. There was hot water, and it was clean. However, I needed to look for a hair dryer, but there was anyway.

It was neither good nor bad. However, if a location is crucial for you, maybe Crafoord Place Hostel isn’t for you because Crafoord Place Hostel is located in the centre of Stockholm, but not very close, and moreover, Crafoord Place Hostel is quite far from the old town (gamla stan).

2. Gothenburg – Backpackers Göteborg

In Gothenburg, Istayed in a hostel called Backpackers Göteborg, and yet I honestly don’t remember why I chose this hostel. However, overall the hostel was good, so it was not a bad decision.

a. Location of the Backpackers Göteborg hostel

The Backpackers Göteborg hostel’s location is pretty well. It’s in the centre of Gothenburg, and there are three supermarkets within walking distances. What is better, there was a pharmacy, electronic appliances shop for a rainy day (where I had to buy a cable for my iPhone as it suddenly broke), and tram and bus stops near the hostel.

The con is that it might be hard to find this hostel.

I saw a description like “The address is this, but the location is a bit different!” when I booked. Looking at the map, the Backpackers Göteborg hostel looks like being built together with the next building, but I believe both are the same. When you go to the actual address, you will see the sign board anyway, and you can ask the reception if the building is the Backpackers Göteborg hostel, so it shouldn’t be a big problem anyway.

b. Facilities in the Backpackers Göteborg hostel

The Backpackers Göteborg hostel’s facilities were pretty good too. In the kitchen, there were microwaves, ovens, cookers and lots of dinnerware. (And I accidentally broke one plate…) However, the dining area didn’t seem to welcome a solo traveller in my opinion. The furniture was placed as they had said: please share with other travellers in a friendly way or use it in a group.

The bathrooms in the Backpackers Göteborg hostel were sometimes good and sometimes not so good. In most of the times, it was okay though. The bathroom itself was spacious, which was a good point.

The room I stayed in the Backpackers Göteborg hostel was a female dormitory for 8 women, and each bed had a reading light, socket and curtain. In addition, under the lower beds, there were lockers with the numbers that correspond with each bed’s number. Although having a locker itself was convenient, it seemed like an older (type of) locker, so whenever I or someone opened or closed it, I heard the locker was with

with a creak…

It was very frustrating when I heard it during the sleep.

By the way, the point that a female traveller might be worried about, a hair dryer, was in the dormitory.

c. Overall review on the Backpackers Göteborg hostel

The Backpackers Göteborg hostel should score high in my personal opinion. Hostels can barely have perfect or very high scores, but if there are a couple of or some pros, your evaluation of the hostel would rise. Also, the cleanness of the bathroom is crucial. It affects our opinions and evaluations a lot, I believe.

Personally the biggest advantage was the Backpackers Göteborg hostel’s location, so perhaps those who wish to stay in hostels around the centre of Gothenburg could consider the Backpackers Göteborg hostel as an option.

★Summary

Whilst I don’t have any records or data about Crafoord Place Hostel anymore as the initial booking was too long ago, in the Backpackers Göteborg hostel, it cost around 25 EUR per night. (Yeah, it’s expensive…) Considering this price of a hostel room, hotels cost more, so for budget travellers as well as students hostels are better I guess.

This is kind of out of the topic, but occasionally there are people who think about their ages, and reckon “I’m too old to stay in a hostel”, but I’ve seen a bunch of Russian middle aged old men and women in a hostel in Dublin before, so age doesn’t matter. 👍

Aitäh! 🙂

5 Restaurants, Cafes in Stockholm, 3 Swedish Sweets You Should Try

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Tere!

Even though my travel is a budget trip (as repeatedly said), I don’t always eat foods from a supermarket. Since Stockholm is still expensive, and I didn’t stay there so long, I didn’t try many restaurants and cafes in Stockholm. However I will introduce a few restaurants and cafes, including some Swedish sweets in this article, so have a look!

Table of Contents

     1. Restaurant
          a. Hawaii Poke
          b. Le Kebab Odenplan
     2. Cafe
          a. Kaffeverket
          b. Gast Café
          c. Vete-Katten
     3. Swedish sweets and tea
          a. Dammsugare
          b. Princess cake
          c. Havreboll, pärlboll, chokladboll
          d. Bilar
          e. Garant
     ★Summary

1. Restaurant

In Stockholm, I went to only two restaurants. This is because; on the first day, I went to a gig, on the third day I had a flight back to Tallinn at night, and I didn’t have anything I specifically wanted to eat. (I’m talking about meals and savouries, not sweets.)

a. Hawaii Poke

First off, Hawaii Poke is a chain poke restaurant over Stockholm. Truth to be told, as I had been on a ketogenic diet since the end of February, and while travelling in Sweden I was taking a break from the diet, I wanted to eat some rice. Also because it was warm in Stockholm, I wanted to eat some raw vegetables. Therefore, I chose Hawaii Poke.

After wandering around the islands such as Djurgården, I went to a Hawaii Poke place in the mainland but close to Skeppsholmen.

I ordered Hula Sunrise. Because the rice was warm, in terms of rice Hawaii Poke’s bowl was better than the ones available in Tallinn, but overall I personally prefer the poke with shrimps and kimchi available in Tallinn. (The restaurant is called Poke Bowl.)

This Hawaii Poke restaurant is so small, and there were only a couple of seats. Perhaps their main business is take-away. I actually had an impression that there were more takeaways.

b. Le Kebab Odenplan

Before going to Sweden this time, I had a “goal” that was “I will eat kebab in Sweden!”. In Estonia, of course you can eat kebabs but always the selections are chicken, pork and vegetables. Yes, it’s Estonianised. (I mean, although pork is often eaten in Estonia, kebab was mainly developed in Islamic culture.)

But what I want is a beef kebab!!!

Then I found a kebab restaurant called Le Kebab Odenplan. Their rate in Google map is good, and Le Kebab Odenplan restaurant was close to the hostel, so I chose there. It was a pretty fancy restaurant. (Either it didn’t look like a regular kebab place/stand or they didn’t have regular kebab menus.)

The order style was; order first, and then take a seat. I arrived there at 6.00 pm on Saturday, so it was full of people. Due to this, it was difficult to find a seat for even one person.

I ordered a kebab wrap, but there are meal menus too. (I ordered just a kebab wrap.)

Once I ate it, it was much more different than I expected, and it was disappointing. Additionally, the meat’s texture was like minced meat. To be honest, I thought kebabs available at a kebab stand on the street would be tastier. My order cost 139 SEK (around €13) though. By the way, I really liked kebabs at the kebab stand on the street in Siegen, Germany…

Le Kebab Odenplan restaurant can be an option for those who want to eat fancy kebabs, but if you really want to enjoy the tastes, I wouldn’t recommend Le Kebab Odenplan restaurant.

2. Café

Whilst I wonder “what’s the point of café-hopping?”, “the taste of coffee is almost the same everywhere unless it’s really bad?”, I do like going to cafés. In Stockholm, I visited two cafés. One of the cafés was something I decided to go to right before going there. The other one is a café that I wanted to go to for a specific purpose.

a. Kaffeverket

I went to Kaffeverket for brunch when I arrived in Stockholm. I arrived in the centre of Stockholm at past 11.30 in the morning. I found one more cafe that looked good, but since Kaffeverket seemed to close earlier than the other cafe, I chose Kaffeverket so as to prevent me from regretting when I would have felt like going to Kaffeverket later. 

In Kaffeverket, there were lots of people, but it wasn’t too crowded. Kaffeverket is a small cafe, and yet there are some more seats in the inner part of Kaffeverket.

I ordered filter coffee and a tuna sandwich because the sandwich appeared to be spicy. However, the tuna sandwich was different from what I expected:






Huge.

This tuna sandwich was like an Asian fusion sandwich, and it cost around 130 SEK. (It’s approximately 13 EUR.) As for the coffee, I wanted them to serve a hotter one to me. It was a bit lukewarm for me.

In Kaffeverket, I could not find any sockets. Their Wi-Fi seemed to require a password. (Since I hate communicating with strangers a lot, I kept roaming on my phone in Kaffeverket, so I’m not still sure whether you can get the password even if you ask the clerk there.) The Wi-Fi’s password could not be seen even in a receipt either.

As the food portion is big, if you wish to go to Kaffeverket, you should go there for the purpose of brunch or lunch rather than breakfast, in my opinion. Also, it might not be good for working or studying unless you are sure that you can get Wi-Fi.

b. Gast Café

In the morning, on the final day in Stockholm, I went to Gast Café after checking out of the hostel. This is because I had breakfast at the hostel, and just wanted to have some coffee at a café.

Maybe because it was Sunday, when I arrived at the Gast Café at past 11.30 am, it was so crowded. Hence it was pretty hard to find a seat for myself, and I had to choose a stool around which there was no space to put my backpack regardless of the size of the backpack. I really felt that the disadvantage of a solo trip is that you cannot keep a seat before ordering…

Plus, the Gast Café seems popular simply as a café. It was a lovely café, so if you want to try café-hopping in Stockholm, you may want to include Gast in your list.

c. Vete-Katten

I went to Vete-Katten for the specific purpose which was

I wanted to try princess cake!!!

I found information that Vete-Katten is highly evaluated, and surely you can have princess cake. That’s why I decided to go there in advance.

Vete-Katten was also crowded, but luckily I was able to keep a seat first. But if your accommodation is close to Vete-Katten, you may consider a take away too. (At Vete, it’s said that there are lots of pickpockets so be careful.)

I’ll write more about princess cake later in this article.

3. Swedish sweets and tea

Although it was my fourth time visiting Sweden, I was a poor student at the first visit, and I went there only for the purposes of concerts, I didn’t research almost anything about Sweden beforehand every time I went there. However, I resumed learning Swedish on my own, through the contents in the textbook, I realised there are more Sweden-specific things.

One of the Swedish things is Swedish sweets. There should be more in Sweden given that you research further, but here I’m going to talk about only three sweets. I chose something you will (never I think) be able to obtain in Estonia.

a. Dammsugare

The first Swedish sweet that I picked up is dammsugare. At a confectionery, I tried to pronounce “Dammsugare”, trying to remember the pronunciation in the textbook, the clerk didn’t understand. (Or maybe I misremembered the pronunciation.) so I said “damm…su…gare”. He understood what I wanted. 😂

If you are curious, Google “dammsugare” online. You will see a bunch of pictures of hoovers. You may think

”What???”

This is because “Dammsugare” means “a hoover” in Swedish. At the confectionery that I went to (the name is Ritorno Konditori), they sell dammsugare named “Volta” which is a hoover brand.

It’s a chocolate sweet, and although it’s small, you will get satisfied as its texture is heavy.

It’s tasty though.

As dammsugare was available at supermarkets too, I bought one for my boyfriend who said “What is something Swedish that we can’t get in Estonia lol” before going to Sweden. However, I understand his point because we can get Swedish products such as coffee. I happened to know about dammsugare this time, and yet if I didn’t research like the previous trips in Sweden, or hadn’t bought a Swedish language textbook with Swedish culture, I wouldn’t know dammsugare even now.

b. Princess cake

This is the cake that I briefly mentioned above.

Princess cake is a Swedish cake. The sponge cake has cream inside, and it’s covered with a light green marzipan. You can buy a whole princess cake or just a piece of the princess cake.

It tasted lighter than I thought. You can get the princess cake at a supermarket too, but of course it’s displayed at a cake corner, not at the counter for regular sweets.

FYI: the princess cake is suitable for black tea!

c. Havreboll, pärlboll, chokladboll

The last sweets are ball sweets. They are called havreboll, pärlboll as well as chokladboll (boll means a ball in Swedish), so I personally call them “ball sweets”. It seems there are basically those three types, and yet all those three are almost the same, containing oatmeal. Their size is like a mud ball that we used to make when we were kids at a nursery school.

Havreboll looks whitey, and contains coconuts.

Pärlboll doesn’t contain coconuts.

Chokladboll seems the most common and ordinary one among these three. In addition to oatmeal and coconuts, chokladboll’s another ingredient is cocoa powder, so it tastes literally like chocolate as in its name. Beside chokladboll is the best among these three types in my opinion…

You can for sure buy those balls at a green-coloured supermarket called Coop!

d. Bilar

Bilar means “cars (indefinite)” in Swedish, and it’s a gummy sweet. Since each gummy shape is like a car, it’s called “bilar”.

I bought a bag of bilar before going to Liseberg in case my friend and I would get a bit hungry there and could share bilar, but we didn’t eat at all, so I brought it back to Estonia and it turned into a souvenir for my workplace. 😂

Bilar

Bilar has two types: normal one and sour one.The normal one didn’t look tasty, so I bought the sour one, which was the right decision.

You can buy bilar anywhere in Sweden.

e. Garant

Garant is a Swedish food brand. As far as I know, based on my activities in Sweden, in Gothenburg, I found their tea series only in one supermarket called Hemköp.

What I bought were

  • Camomile, lemon balm and lavender
  • Mint and chocolate
  • Earl grey
  • Black tea with rhubarb and vanilla flavour

For my boyfriend as a souvenir (as a birthday gift), I bought camomile, lemon balm and lavender tea. (It’s because he sometimes works a lot to compensate for a no-work day.)

Two flavours of tea: camomile, lemon balm and lavender as well as mnt and chocolate
Upper: camomile, lemon balm and lavender
Lower: mint and chocolate

As of now, writing this chapter, it’s already summer, so I haven’t tried all the flavours but mint chocolate that I tried while staying at a hostel in Gothenburg. The mint chocolate one didn’t have strong flavours, but it was extraordinary and changed my mood.

Hemköp where you can buy Garant’s tea series in Gothenburg I know is only here:

★Summary

The restaurants and cafés above that I went to were for the purpose of something Swedish or something properly unavailable in Estonia. There are many many more in Stockholm of course. It might be fun to find one on the map too. (I personally want to try a meatball restaurant that I found in Google maps. Also I want to find a better kebab place.)

As for the chokladboll mentioned at the end of this article, you can Google some recipes so why don’t you try to make them on your own if you’re interested in them? The ingredients are nothing hard to find, and if what a Swedish YouTuber said is correct, people make it at home in Sweden.

Enjoy tasty and sweet Stockholm.

Aitäh! 🙂

SL App – Stockholm’s Public Transport App

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Tere!

While travelling, I usually walk a lot (to save money and to prevent myself from lack of exercise), but it does not mean that I don’t use public transports at all. Especially in Stockholm, three out of four times of the visits were for the purpose of concerts, I always used the public transports after the concerts.

In addition, this time I took a ferry just because I was interested in it.

The story here is nothing special, but maybe for some people the information is useful.

Table of Contents

1. App on public transports in Stockholm
     a. Check routes in the SL app
     b. Buy tickets in the SL app

2. How to take a ferry within Stockholm

★Summary

1. App on public transports in Stockholm

a. Check routes in the SL app

First of all, I’m gonna introduce a transport app called “SL” that you can use in Stockholm. It is just like the Västtrafik app in Gothenburg.

Here is how to use the SL app. Once you download the SL app, open “Travel”. Then you will see your current location in the SL app. (I had turned on the location access on the phone, so the map in the SL shows even Estonia.) From that page, you can check any routes.

Here I set the gig venue as a destination and the hostel’s address as an origin.

Then the SL app shows the route.

On the top right corner, there is “Journey settings’” from which you can set which transport type you wish to use. In default, I think everything is turned on. Also, when you go back to the previous page, you can set the date and time.

Once you select the route, the SL app shows the route in detail. In this case, from the hostel to the gig venue I just needed to take only one underground.

b. Buy tickets in the SL app

In order to purchase tickets in the SL app, open the SL app, and tap “Tickets” in the middle at the button. Then a blue bottom is shown, so tap that button.

Then you can see the page where the ticket types are shown.

If you tap “Other app tickets”, you will see some other tickets like the ticket valid for 24 hours, so select one that suits your trip. There is also a transport card called SLcard in Stockholm, but I never needed it, hence I just purchased a single travel ticket every time I needed.

Once you select the ticket, the SL app shows the price in the blue button again, so tap it and go to the payment page.

There are two payment options: Swish or card payment. I reckon almost all of the non-Swedish residents/travellers would have no choice but the card payment. This is because Swish seems to require you to connect your Swish account with your bank account.

Here the SL app shows my card as I have purchased tickets before, but for new users, or those who wish to use another card, you can simply add a new card from “Add card”. Enter the necessary information, and Confirm it. Then the payment is done.

Once you purchase a ticket, the SL app shows it to you. Before taking a transport, you need to scan the ticket at the machine, but unlike Västtrafik in Gothenburg, the ticket won’t be activated on purchasing it. I personally prefer the system in the SL app so that I don’t have to pay attention to the time, and can purchase tickets at any time beforehand.

2. How to take a ferry within Stockholm

While travelling in Stockholm, I suddenly wondered:

“Stockholm basically consists of several islands, so maybe there are ferries as a regular public transport option?”

So I searched, and I found there are!

If you look at one of the screenshots above, you may notice, and yet the SL app includes ferries as a transport option.

However, in reality, it was a bit cumbersome when travelling from Djurgården by ferry.

The ticket counters were closed, and there was some information about ferries, but it wasn’t well-explained… (It didn’t mention the ticket price for a ferry either.)

So I decided to ask a staff member when a ferry comes, and asked her, and she said

“You have a card!!??”

Um, yes…?

“Here!!!”

??????

“Here!!!!”

I realised she was not able to speak English that well… Anyway I just followed what she said, and scanned my debit card at the machine, and then immediately the payment was executed. I looked at the price shown in the machine and it cost only 1 SEK. It’s like 10 cents in EUR.

I’m not sure if this is because the distance is pretty short, or whatever, but still it was cheap even if it were not Stockholm. I would recommend using a ferry in Stockholm just as an activity there. To me a ferry as a regular public transport option in a city is extraordinary.

View from the ferry

The travelling time in the ferry was short as described, but I enjoyed myself from the perspective of a different type of public transports within a single city.

★Summary

In my opinion, Stockholm has many activities and museums in the main areas, so maybe you don’t need to take public transports that often, but it can be too far to walk depending on the destinations and where you are. Hence probably it’s good just to know they have the SL app for that in Stockholm

Also, as repeatedly mentioned, I really recommend the ferry travelling within Stockholm. If you love seas and ships, or have kids, you can probably enjoy it too.

Aitäh! 🙂

6 Places in Stockholm for Your Budget Trip

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Tere!

Sweden’s capital city, Stockholm, is more urban than Tallinn, and has lots of museums. Among tourists the old town in Stockholm (called Gamla stan) is very popular. (People call it “Gamla stan” specifically, but “Gamla stan” actually means “old town” in Swedish. I often wonder why then the old town in Tallinn is not called “Vanalinn” among the tourists.)

Also, as written in the related articles repeatedly, my solo trip is basically a budget trip. However, I found a way to enjoy this expensive city as a frugal traveller, so you could refer to this article if you feel “I want to visit Stockholm, but I’m worried about my budget…”.

Table of Contents

1. Gig venue: Fryshuset

2. Djurgården
     a. Blå porten
     b. Villa Lusthusporten
     c. Skansen city quarters

3. Skeppsholmen
     a. Moderna Museet
     b. Gilded Crown on Skeppsholmsbron

★Summary

1. Gig venue: Fryshuset

In the first place, this trip to Sweden was planned for a gig by Louis Tomlinson from One Direction, which I had been waiting for three years since I bought a ticket (due to COVID). Unless you go to such an event, you may not visit a gig venue like Fryshuset, and yet I decided to include this place in this article.

As I already mentioned in some articles, this is my fourth time to visit Sweden, and three times were for concerts, but it was my first time to go to Fryshuset. I went there to queue with a relaxing plan as I took a nap because I couldn’t sleep well at the previous night although I arrived in Stockholm in the morning. Also, I thought “Meh, I don’t have to keep the front row”.

The closest station to Fryshuset is Gullmarsplan, and you would think:

Freaking hard to get out!

I walked everywhere in the Gullmarsplan station, and then finally was able to get out. (I could see the outside just over there from the Gullmarsplan station, but the exit was hard to find.) Once you get out of this station, it’s not complicated to reach the venue, Fryshuset.

Fryshuset is a regular gig venue. If you search on the map by its name, it might be difficult to find, but if you use Fryshuset’s physical address, maybe it’s easier. However, in reality, the area isn’t complex, so you can reach there more easily than you imagine.

Reference

At the cloak check in Fryshuset, there was no payment option such as by card or in cash available, but only by Swish. Swish seems to be a payment app by connecting a Swish account with one’s bank account in Sweden. I found out that at least a girl who appeared to come to Stockholm from outside of Sweden and I were not able to ask them to keep our bags at the cloak check, so we had to bring our bags and coats while watching the show. (She’s not my friend. I found she’s not Swedish as she was queuing in front of me speaking English to other people.) It was still March, so I wore a coat, but I went there with a backpack, so I could put everything in the backpack and hold it in the front, enjoying the show.

If it had been a small shoulder bag or something, I would have had no choice at all.

2. Djurgården

Have you heard of Djurgården? Me? I hadn’t.

I don’t know why, but suddenly I thought “I could take a ferry like an underground or a city bus because Stockholm consists of multiple small islands, couldn’t I?”

So I googled, and found out there was a ferry from Djurgården to the island next to Djurgården. I thought I wanted to try, so I decided to go to Djurgården.

For your information, ABBA The Museum is located in Djurgården.

a. Blå porten

Djurgården had more interesting things than I thought. For example, there is blå porten. Given that you go to Djurgården from the mainland (?), you will see a gate in super blue, and that is blå porten. To me a blue gate is atypical, hence I wanted to see it.

b. Villa Lusthusporten

Villa Lusthusporten is said to be a merchant’s house built in the 19th century. When looking at pictures online, the house looked nice in terms of its design, so I wanted to see it with my own eyes.

I’m not sure if you can go inside.

c. Skansen city quarters

I also saw Skansen city quarters in pictures, and looked nice, so I wanted to visit, and yet I found that it is in Skansen which is like a theme park and zoo, so I needed a ticket. One ticket costs around 20 EUR even for a student.

Strictly speaking, I didn’t go inside of Skansen’s area, but I saw something a bit from the outside, therefore I included this in the article. I’m still interested in this are. I might want to visit Stockholm for the fifth time…

It was a moment that I found Stockholm was more interesting if I searched about it more.

3. Skeppsholmen

Skeppsholmen is an island that I went to from Djurgården. I will talk about a ferry connecting these islands in a different article regarding public transports in Stockholm, so please check that one.

a. Moderna Museet

In Skeppsholmen, there is a museum called Moderna Museet. Partially it costs, but there are areas where you can go free of charge, and even only there you can see lots of art works, so I believe even a poor student can visit.

However, you cannot bring your backpack or a plastic water bottle. (A staff member ran to me telling me not to do it.) There are lockers behind Moderna Museet’s reception and the shop, and you can use them. There is a cloak check, but they told me to use the lockers for some reasons. (Then what’s the point of a cloak check…) It doesn’t cost to use those lockers by the way.

As a museum I enjoyed the Moderna Museet since there are Soviet-related works too. (I felt strange but interested as for me Sweden does not seem to be as much relevant as the Baltic countries to the Soviet.

b. Gilded Crown on Skeppsholmsbron

The Gilded Crown on Skeppsholmsbron is in the centre of the bridge that connects Skeppsholmen and the mainland.

There was nothing special, but I thought it sounded so Swedish just because of the crowns. If you walk to Skeppsholmen from the mainland, or vice versa, you can see them. The Gilded Crown on Skeppsholmsbron is decorated on both sides of the bridge, so you can choose whichever side you want.

★Summary

This article reveals how stingily I was travelling in Stockholm I believe, but I honestly think I should give myself a bit more reward after this trip. (But I’m so frugal, which prevents me from doing that.) On the other hand, my experiences might be useful for those who think their travels may be a budget trip, so it’s not in vain.

If you can spend more money, you can experience more, such as at ABBA The Museum, the Vasa museum, etc. Therefore I rethought and changed my thought; Stockholm is not boring as long as you have money.

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I realised I used to think “Stokcholm is boring, Gothenburg is more fun” because I “don’t have money”.

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Aitäh! 🙂