Let's try that again, shall we?

Stockholm

The city of Stockholm is built upon 14 islands and has more than 50 bridges, quite different to our preconceived idea that it was just a city sitting on the coast of the mainland. 

The weather was better than we expected, it was a sunny day and heading for 30 degrees. We started with a walking tour of Gamla Stan, the Swedish name for the old town. Our tour guide was Russian with average English and it seemed her idea of leading a walking tour was to rattle off some information/history and then give you five minutes to take photos. It wasn't quite what we were expecting so we bailed, heading to the nearest metro station to get a train to the island of Södermalm.

From Södermalm we walked back along the water's edge and across a few bridges to the city centre to join another (and hopefully better) walking tour, this time of the new city.

Our second tour of the day was around the more modern areas near where we were staying. Thankfully this one was much more entertaining and interesting than the morning tour, we learnt all sorts of interesting trivia, like why floor coverings and rugs in Ikea are named after Danish towns, and the story behind the term "Stockholm Syndrome".