Stockholm (Sweden)

While being in Finland I went travelling to Stockholm for two days. We took the ferry and got a very good offer for 34 euros only from and to the capital city of Sweden.

Stockholm by night

The ferries that travel to Sweden are huge and there are hundreds of cabins on the ferry where you can find lots of people travelling or enjoying a drink and partying. Lots of Finns go on ferries to Stockholm or Tallinn to buy alcohol due to the fact that it is much cheaper to buy alcohol than in a regular shop in Finland. The alcohol in Finland has an extremely high amount of taxes on the price. For a cider or beer in a grocery store you can easily spent around 2-4 Euros and in bars or pubs they are even more expensive which means for the same cider you would have to spend about 7-10 Euros.

Having said this, I have to add here that in Finland you are only able to buy wine and cider in a normal grocery store as the Finnish law bans the sale of alcohol in grocery shops. Nevertheless, you can see the “Alko” stores all over Finland where they sell all kinds of alcohol.

In Stockholm we walked around the city and visited the royal palace, the parliament, the shopping street and different churches. Stockholm is a lovely city which is in my point of view a bit more colourful than Turku. The people in Sweden had also been very friendly and helpful. Of course, we also enjoyed a coffee in a nice café in the city centre at Starbucks. Next time when I will go back to Sweden I want to rent a car and travel more up to the North of Sweden. I really liked the opportunity to go to Sweden as it is so close to Turku and Finland. 

Stockholm

Furthermore, in the old town called “Gamla stan” you can easily just go for a walk and have a closer look at the old buildings you pass. Unlike in Turku you can see lots of old buildings as they haven’t been affected by any fire. I was told that there aren’t that many old buildings in Turku and other cities like Helsinki in Finland because most of them had been burned down and therefore people had to rebuild them. 

Gamla stan in Stockholm

coming back to Helsinki