photo: Michael ZuckerRight in the city, some allotment garden cottages by the swimming centre
Eriksdalsbadet. Spring is finally coming!
Here's the same view, eight weeks ago.
photo: Kenneth Blake
A summery view of that favourite ship - M/S Stockholm. Here you can see the ship in
winter settings. M/S Stockholm also set off the recent
water week here on
pixels.
photo: Michael Zucker
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Found this lamp on a wall at Yttersta Tvärgränd, just above Hornsgatan
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photo: Kenneth Blake.Another January view over Strandvägen and Nybroplan, not terribly far away from Per's boxes. In the top left corner we see - no, not the moon - the exclusive department store NK's giant clock. .
Strandvägen (map) 3 January 2008
photo: Michael Zucker
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The ice at
Hellasgården looks quite thin, it's good to have a warning sign.
(More by Micke on plenty)
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photo: Michael Zucker
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These red houses are found on Kvastmakarbacken ("Broommaker's Hill"). They look very nice in the bleak January sunshine.
(more by Micke on plenty)
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photo: Kenneth Blake.
A view of a wintry Skeppsholmen as seen from Strandvägen. Skeppsholmen used to be a strategic naval base at the entrance to Stockholm. Nowadays it's filled with peaceful museums. The yearly Stockholm Jazz Festival is also held here.
Strandvägen (map) 27 Jan 2006
photo: Michael Zucker.
Hellasgården is an exercise center in Nacka, 9 kilometers south-east of the city, where you can enjoy outdoor swimming in cold water
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text & photo: Pia K
One of the best things of living in a fair, green city by the water is the ample opportunity to stumble over, or hear of through the leafage, new places of wild strawberries (smultronställen). Such a place I found last year, and this photo captures the loveliness of that moment, that place, this city and what’s best of it in at least three ways.
Just the fact than you can enjoy a decent lunch (chanterelle soup and homemade bread) in a seemingly rural and peaceful place, when this café is actually situated just below the busy Västerbron (The Western Bridge), is amazing in its very self.
The other very visible thing can be found in the small details, all around us, everywhere. Here illustrated by an uninvited, but welcomed, lunch companion. Who eagerly, more or less patiently, awaited some left over bread.
And then we have that light, the summer light, that reminiscence of the glorious summer past, that shines through the leafage… This perfect moment - eternalised with a little help from a small, ingenious friend named camera - makes it easy to visualise that the best things in life can simply be found in the smaller things that surround us.
With hopes of and wishes for many such perfect moments in the year to come, Happy New 2008!
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photo: Kenneth Blake.
Strömma Kanalbolaget ship M/S Stockholm tied up at Strandvägen on a snowy November evening. The ship was built in 1931 by Oskarshamns Varv Ab and was originally sailing under the name S/S Öland. M/S Stockholm has been in service in Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The ship's full history can be found here (only in Swedish). .
photo: Christer Palm
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Hammarby lock from Lake Mälaren an afternoon in October.
Locking is boring.
water week - seven days to celebrate a city by the water
others on stockholm water
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photo: Christer Palm
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On the way to the mess.
You can be called out before dinner and return after midnight.
You don't know what to find.
You have a mission.
Think different, adapt and improvise is the key.
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photo: Christer Palm.
North bound on a lovely Easter Day one minute south of the Stockholm county border
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photo: Michael Zucker..The sun sets gracefully by Riddarholmen. Our Friday Guest takes us half a year back. Or is it half a year into the future? The huge differences between four distinct seasons make our climate ever fascinating. Riddarholmen is a small islet, rich in history,
in the centre of Stockholm.
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Och nu är det bara 178 dagar kvar till jul!
photo: Michael Zucker
.It's May and we're almost back
here again. This is a view
towards Riddarfjärden with the inner city behind the water.
. "Tänkte mig att fånga kontrasten mellan förgrund, pontonerna i vattnet
och city i fjärran", berättar vår nye gästströfvare Michael
photo: Michael Zucker
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Stockholm is not your average flatland. An older version of the busy Hornsgatan offers good exercise (at least when you walk uphill) as well as interesting architecture. Söder – the southern part of the city – is rich in cultural heritage.
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På bar backe i vårvintras: en puckel mitt i historien
photo: Patrik Elgh .
"Mime is the representation of inner movements
by visible outer motions" (Rudolf Laban)
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The
National Academy of Mime and Acting (Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm) is
moving to Gärdet with its three-year programmes:
the Mime Acting Programme and the Acting Programme
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I inträdesproven till mimprogrammet ingår bl a dans, rörelseimprovisation och rytmikövningar. De genomförs både som gruppövningar, samarbetsövningar och enskilda uppgifter (från Teaterhögskolans webb)
photo: Patrik Elgh .
A touch of global warming by Djurgårdsbron
(The Djurgården Bridge) makes us all feel swell
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photo: Patrik Elgh .
The good citizens of Skanstull will have to
provide their own mime and acting as the
national academy is moving. These pipes are busy practicing.
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Rörande utsikt på söder vid Teaterhögskolan
photo: Patrik Elgh .
Birger Magnusson was a busy guy. He led a crusade to Finland,
established trade with Lübeck and waged war in his spare time.
He advanced the rule of law and founded the city Stockholm in 1252.
Today he is known as Birger Jarl and this street is named after him.
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Birger kanske skulle gillat en kvällspromenad från Stureplan. Vi får aldrig veta.
Your daily dose of Stockholm, Sweden - click on pictures to enlarge!
photo: Michael Zucker
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