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...
Skansen is the world’s first open air museum, a vision of what Sweden was like in centuries past. My mother wrote on the back of a photo that it was at Skansen that our father proposed to her in 1944, right at the height...
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....