Örebro to Stockholm
Stockholm was our ultimate destination for our Swedish road trip, and we decided to detour via the city of Uppsala and use it to break up the drive. Uppsala is the furthest north we have been in the world (so far) although we expect it will only hold this status for another week or so.
We visited Gamla Uppsala, an old Viking village where the buildings had been reconstructed to look as they would appear during Viking times, but there were also a number of authentic (and huge) burial mounds, similar to those we'd seen in Denmark.
We arrived into Stockholm mid-afternoon, and dropped off our hire car right next to the Central Station where we had also booked a hotel for two nights.
After checking in we did a little shopping, and K went to buy some wine from a Systembolaget, which is a government-owned chain of liquor stores that is the only retail store allowed to sell drinks containing more than 3.5% alcohol by volume. We were quite amused by the Australian wine selection, the names of the wines and the way they were packaged made them look like the kinds of drinks people should stay away from!
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