Free day in Stockholm #1:
Stockholm, a city of almost one million people, is built on bunch of islands in the mouth of a river. Many of the islands are small, and all the major ones are connected by bridges and subways. Most of the band started the day with a visit to Stockholm's Gamla Stan, or "Old Town" in English. This includes the Royal Palace and the Great Cathedral.
Click here for pictures of Gamla Stan.
Click here for pictures inside the Great Cathedral.
In the afternoon, we met most of the group for a boat tour around the islands.
Click here for pictures from the boat tour.
Later, we visited the Vasa Museum, Scandinavia's number one tourist attraction. The Vasa was a Swedish warship that was designed to be the most advanced of its day. It was built between 1626 and 1628, and launched in August of 1628. It sank before it got out of the harbor, although the engineers would never admit it was their fault. In 1961, it was discovered in terrific condition and brought up. It was brought on land and a museum was built around it. Unfortunately, our camera battery was just about gone by this time!