{"id":3781,"date":"2018-06-17T21:07:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2018-06-22T17:08:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T17:08:56","slug":"stockholm-10-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mak.iqt.com.au\/?p=3781","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm – 10 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning we catch the train into the city which takes about 15 minutes and we walk from the station to the old city – Gamla Stan across a bridge and past the old Parliament building.<\/p>\n

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The streets of Gamla Stan are narrow & made from cobble stones with lovely old multi coloured buildings. It is very quaint and one of the things I like to take photos of are the different interesting man hole covers that I’ve seen around the world.\u00a0 Perhaps I’ll make a coffee table book one day of Man Hole covers of the world!<\/p>\n

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Through the streets of the old city of Gamla Stan we walk to the Royal Palace that has a guard out the front who is very casual compared to the guards of Buckingham Palace, as they talk to the public.\u00a0 The Palace is still used for ceremonies and dinners and oozes opulence.<\/p>\n

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We catch a ferry from the palace to the Vassa museum and see the city from the water and it’s a beautiful city.<\/p>\n

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The Vasa museum contains a 17th century Viking ship that sank after 20 minutes of of it’s maiden voyage in 1628, just 120 meters from shore.\u00a0 \u00a0It was discovered in 1956 and the recovery of the ship took from 1958 until 1961 when it was raised from the bottom of the harbour using pontoons on either side and cables underneath the vessel.\u00a0 All of the iron nails in the boards of the ship had rusted away and needed to be replaced with wooden plugs before the raising.\u00a0 There are a number of reasons that the ship sank:<\/p>\n