go there! (Stockholm)

Member Name: chettle

Product:	Stockholm
Date:	17/02/04 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: good shopping, great experience

Disadvantages: cold in the winter!

I recently went to Stockholm to visit a friend of mine I met over here in sunny England, for some strange reason I decided to do this in the middle of their very cold and snowy winter.

I decided to get their with ryanair (low cost airline) which was good value for a flight at around £50 rather than the alternative £120+ that BA were offering out, although when I got there I did have to take a bus for an hour to get to Stockholm, but still cheaper than the BA flight.

When I got off the plane there was about a 2-inch layer of snow and it was ?16, which for my jeans and jumper that I was wearing I was very cold! So my first impression of Sweden wasn?t too brilliant!

When I finally got to Stockholm it was reasonably dark so I couldn?t see much of what it was like, the next day I had a chance to look round and learn about the place; here is what I thought;

The transport system-

The transport system in Stockholm basically puts ours to shame with its efficiency and network, although it is a lot smaller than the underground and bus system in London. I found the best thing to do was get a travel card that lasted the duration of my trip, its cheaper that way and you just have to show it to a bus driver or swipe it through the gate to get on a train, my Swedish not being to tip top I found it best I didn?t have to communicate with the locals to much!
But it does enable you to get anywhere in the city in a reasonable time, also all the busses and trains are pretty co-ordinated so you can get off train strait to the bus then to you destination etc.


Prices of things-

You here a lot about how expensive things in Sweden are but in all I found that things cancel themselves out, for instance yes, food/drink is expensive but compared to England the housing is really cheap and so are most of the clothes (apart from some brands which are more)

The weather-

Cold! The winter is generally pretty cold
in the winter ranging from 0 to ?20, but in the summer it is a bit hotter than England.

Shopping-

If you like shopping the centre of Stockholm is the place to be though! There is a huge range of clothing shops i.e. about 5 h&m?s on the main street, there are also a lot of back ally as it were shops that have some really nice things which I think the average tourist would never see.

Well that?s about it from me, I highly recommend going there to see what its like and experience something new if your new to it.

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