TRAVEL: serious about stockholm; Hannah Davies soaks up the atmosphere in Stockholm.(Features)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: February 9, 2008 | Copyright information

WHEN I think of Sweden, I think of crisp blue skies, smiling people and beautifully clean streets.

I have family in Stockholm, so I've travelled here many times, but this time I decided to "do" the city as a tourist.

Stockholm is a very attractive city. It doesn't have the scale of Paris or London, there's no Louvre or Buckingham Palace, but its setting on 14 separate islands means there is always green and blue around, mixed in with some impressive buildings.

And in contrast to those two capitals, it is clean. The streets, while often bustling, are never ...

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