I felt like the proverbial American tourist last Thursday as I landed in my forth country in a week. I didn't quite do Europe in a week, but it was pretty close. Having left Ireland on Sunday, passed through Latvia on the Monday, then a day or two in Estonia before taking a ferry to Stockholm.
I was in Helsinki last summer for a day and expected Stockholm to be pretty similar. But it was so much better. There was something fresh and bright about this city, it was more like Paris than its neighbouring capital cities. It was cheaper for food and drink than Finland and for that matter, Ireland, there seemed to be so much space, large shops, buildings and harbour. The tourist sites were all in easy reach such as the Royal palace and the metro was so clean and quiet.
If you go to Stockholm yourself one day, a piece of advise is to buy your train ticket in one of the shops in the station and not at the ticket office. For some unknown reason the ticket office charge a euro more.
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