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Walk in the Stockholm city center



As I said in my last post I will be exploring Stockholm and writing more about it. I feel the best way to explore any city is to walk on the roads of the city. This  presents the real picture of city. So I started my walk on Friday evening after office. From my hotel window I could see water and small boats. I thought I should go there to get some good pictures. So I started walking in that direction. The area is called Riddarholmen. The Swedish names are difficult. I don't understand how to pronounce it. And even if I pronounce it, I am sure it don't sound correctly the way  it should be. During the walk I got some good pictures. I could see some nice buildings, architectures, I captured it in my camera. There is small harbor, I walked around it for some time. It's a very nice place for spending evening. There was less crowd. From this place there is very good view of some Palace situated on the hills nearby across the water and city town hall on the other side. Very very good location for pictures.

I was planning to return hotel, but by just curiosity I entered in one narrow road and Wow! it was nice network of typically European narrow roads. Of-course it is open just for walking. In both sides of the road there are either hotels or souvenir shops. Best place for window shopping.  I really like these kind of roads, I am not able to find a appropriate word for these small roads. But they are specialty of Europe. I was so happy. I took many snaps. It is the original Stockholm may be developed many hundred years before. Every building has some history and some story to tell. 




  It is great walk indeed just like dream walk. I promised my-self to return here again and came back to hotel.

One different thought below. I have seen Paris, some places in Germany and now in Sweden. These European cities have maintained very well. More specifically the great buildings, forts. There were so many wars faught in these countries. Europe was center of two world wars. Still they were able to maintain all these structures. India has soooo big and old history, of-curse India was attacked for many years by outsiders and they destroyed the great structures specially by Mugals. Just imagine if these old structures were present we would have so much tourist places and could have earned great amount of Forex for country. Just like Europeans are able to en-cash based on these structures.  But now we all Indians should learn and maintain the existing historical structures.

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