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3 Perfect Days in Stockholm

We just returned from a trip to sunny Scandinavia - a post will follow shortly on our time in Copenhagen, Denmark. I had to write about Stockholm first though, since the weather was perfect, city lovely, and people friendly... it was a city to which I would like to return. We landed at Arlanda and though we took a taxi to our apartment for the week, we could have easily taken the airport bus to the central station, and hopped on a T-bana from there. Once we arrived, we found the nearest grocery / wine shop in a Lindhagen complex -- a store called Maxi, which had everything we needed for the week. Due to Sweden's alcohol monopoly , we had to pick up wine and beer from a store in the same complex. En route, we passed a few playgrounds, one of which we couldn't help but swing by on the way home. The little guy loved it, especially the waterfront playground. On our first full day in Stockholm, we bought 72-hour transit cards and went straight to the Old Town for a tasty warm