water week: tram on water

The Sickla Udde - Gullmarsplan tram passing over a bridge into Hammarby Sjöstad. Notice the blue walls on the buildings on the left hand side. They are only just - walls. Quite cool if you ask me.

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Hammarby Sjöstad (map) 10 April 2008

water week: waterway

A view from Hammarby sjöstad towards Danviks bridge. The bridge is open, letting a bigger boat pass. In the background - Kaknästornet.

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Ytterligare ett besök i Hammarby Sjöstad. Denna gång riktar vi blicken mot Danviksbron som för ögonblicket är i uppfällt läge.

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Hammarby sjöstad (map) 10 April 2008

water week: to the manner born

When you're on a dinner date with a lady friend (be it here in Norrviken or elsewhere), there are a few ground rules to observe. You might want to look your best and give a favorable impression. Then again, you might not care a whole lot. Regardless, don't turn your behind at her while eating.

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Norrviken, Sollentuna (map) 1 Apr 2008

water week: birds in the pool

Liljeholmsviken covered in ice. Some bird have found a pool of open water. It's close to here, where the fishing is good. We have had a week of sunshine, but the weatherman says that will change any day now. Not to ice and snow we hope.

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Liljeholmsviken (map) 24 March 2008

water week: don't run in the stairs children - it's slippery when wet

This "water-staircase" is found in Hammarby Sjöstad. It's yet another water exhibition by Mikael Pauli & Dag Birkeland (remember the fountain?).

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Översvämning hemma? Ja, det skulle det kunna vara, men icke så. Vattentrappan i Hammarby Sjöstad behöver man veta var den är för att se. Kolla kartan.

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Kölnavägen, Hammarby sjöstad (map) 10 April 2008

water week: a wintry benchmark (2)

Granted, this might not be the comfiest bench in town but it's got a better view by the Karlberg Canal than most benches do. Here we actually managed to capture traces of snow. During most of this "winter" we had none. There were a couple of hungry guys circling around us. You can see them here.

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Karlbergskanalen (map) 19 Mar 2008

water week: Stockholm on water

Stockholm very much is boats and water. Back on Strandvägen.

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Strandvägen (map) 24 January 2008

daily photo theme day: off season

Ice is frozen water and if the weather is cold enough the ice gets thick enough to walk or skate on. If you play ball on ice you should preferably use a small orange or red ball - approximately the size of a tennis ball - and sticks and skates and then you suddenly play bandy. Football is played in the summer on grass. Oh, how I long for the football season. Not for the sports, but for the warmth and open waters.

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Årstaviken, Hornstull (map) 24 March 2008

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HMS Visborg

HMS Visborg, the 4th Naval Warfare Flotillas Commander ship, is entering Stockholm. In the background we see Kaknästornet (cake nose tower ;o) communications tower and Prince Eugene's Waldemars udde (cape).

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Waldemarsudde (map) 17 Jan 2008

sea horses?

If you have been following this blog, you can't have missed that the snow this year is almost canceled. It has snowed twice but it has rained heavy many times, causing very high water everywhere. This playground is NOT supposed to be under water. The pic is taken on Lida, an open air recreation area in the southern suburbs.

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.Sjöhästar ? Ja, kanske. Normalt sett så borde nog strandlinjen ligga liiiiite längre ut än så här. Det behövs nästan sjöstövlar för att komma ut och rida på hästarna.

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Lida (map) 13 Jan 2008

ice, please

Looking back from the Djurgården Bridge we see Strandvägen. It's a prominent boulevard, passing along the water and offering some of the most fashionable residential houses on posh Östermalm. If anyone wonders why there's no winter to be seen, so do we.

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Nå't slags vårkänslor på Tjugondag Knut

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Djurgårdsbron (map) 13 Jan 2008

water castle

I think this may be one of the classiest water tanks I have ever seen. It's more like a water castle. The beauty is positioned on top of a fairly small hill in Vanadislunden (Vanadis grove).

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Vanadislundens vattenreservoir (map) 2 January 2008

Riddarfjärden

City Hall and the Hötorg City (high-rise buildings illuminated in green) on the other side of Riddarfjärden. In the foreground a couple of boats tied up at Söder Mälarstrand. On some boats people live, on others they work and still on others they seem to do nothing. On Söder Mälarstrand there are also four or five hotel/hostel boats, like the Red Boat.

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Söder Mälarstrand (map), 16 Dec 2007

daily photo theme day: Queen of Lake Mälaren

If there's one defining quality of Stockholm that people could agree on, it'd have to be the water. Located on several islands at the mouth of Lake Mälaren and by a spectacular archipelago, the city is embedded in water. We travel across our waterways, we fish in the inner city and during those flickering short moments of Nordic summer we swim in this surprisingly clean water.

Any person having visited Stockholm even just briefly will remember the water. There is no immediate shortage of photos ;) of this our main attraction and, to celebrate the February theme day, here's yet another one. It was shot by the Parliament (Riksdagen), we can see the Vasa Bridge and, lurking in the background, the well-known tower of our City Hall. At this time of year the city should have a distinct winter look but January 2008 didn't bring us any winter weather.

Here is more moist from different seasons. And here. Enjoy!

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Kalla det gärna en kliché. Vem vill inte leva mitt i en så'n?
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Riksbron (map) 23 Jan 2008

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bad fishing

Stockholm is a city on water. Consequently you often see people fishing. This is the first time I have seen someone taking up nets in the city though. In the foreground is the Liljeholmsbadet, a public bath (the sign says "bath", nothing else).

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hammarby lock

...previously on pixels

This is the Hammarby Lock. Right in the center of Stockholm Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea (here specifically Lake Hammarby).

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Slussa snabbt är stort. Slussa rätt är större.

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Hammarby Lock (map) 28 Oct 2007

water week: hammarby sjö

Between the city and southern Stockholm is Lake Hammarby (here) with a modest average depth of four metres. New residential areas are being constructed by its shores. This is a busy water way so the new inhabitants have many boats to check out.

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Under ytan lurar gamla föroreningar, meddelar Stockholm Vatten

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water week: fountain play

Who can resist this sight? Not me. Stockholm has lots of water, fountain water in this case. We're at Sergels Torg like many times before. It's once again too hot not to take a dip in the fountain. The backlight makes the pic look almost like a black and white one.

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Många har badat i fontänen vid Sergels Torg och här är två till
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water week: yet another lock

photo: Christer Palm

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Hammarby lock from Lake Mälaren an afternoon in October.
Locking is boring.

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