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Stockholm, travel fashion girls and Rick Steves
I hope you don’t mind a few more tales of our Scandi trip from this summer. I’d like to share the last bits with you before I head off to eastern Europe next month.. We spent a lovely day in Stockholm, buying a bus/tram pass for the first time on this trip. First stop was the Gamla Stan, or Old Town. Not many tourists around, mostly locals on their morning commutes. We had a wander to ourselves, then found ourselves by the residence of the royal family. We enjoyed an afternoon pizza snack, and explored an incredible food hall. The legendary “kanelbullar”, Swedish cinnamon buns, were every bit as good…
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Riga, packing cubes, and is it an airport or a shopping mall?
I never dreamed I’d visit any of the Baltic countries, but the capital of Latvia was the next stop on our cruise. Riga was full of old-world charm, and we made a short walk from where our ship docked into the Old Town. Our first stop was at the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, which documents the 55 years of the 20th c. when Latvia was occupied twice by the Soviet Union, and by the Nazis in between. Much like the House of Terror in Budapest that I visited in 2021, this recently-renovated and now state-of-the-art museum makes sure no visitor will have any doubts as to the brutality…
