26 Nov

The trams began to service Stockholm beginning in 1877 with small horse-drawn carriages. Then in the early 1900s they were run by the electric lines which ran throughout the city. ...

22 Oct

The day the “Siblings in Sweden” went to Skansen we were on a mission to find the garden where our father proposed to our mother in late September 1944. I had found a tiny snapshot in their wartime photo album that read “taken in...

06 Nov

A restaurant in Stockholm that has been mentioned in OSS Stockholm wartime reports is the Bellmansro....

30 Sep

Djurgården, another section of Stockholm east of Staden, or Old Town, consists of an island as well as an area to the north of it, known as Norra Djurgården (Northern Djurgården) separated by the bay of Djurgårdsbrunnsviken....