This Weekend!

December 17th, 18th as well as 19th

The Winer Solstice is adjacent Midweek (Dec. 22nd). This the year's shortest/darkest day... but I intend nosotros tin discovery simply about things going on inwards the metropolis that mightiness lighten the weekend for you!

  • They are celebrating the Winter Solstice inwards truthful infidel mode at Skansen this weekend alongside "ice & fire" show. It volition stimulate got house on the Solliden phase at 4pm on both Sat as well as Sunday. Take payoff as well as view their Christmas market... it is the concluding weekend they volition last having it!
  • If yous are a domestic dog somebody as well as then I stimulate got the perfect effect for you... the Swedish Kennel Club has their FCI International domestic dog show this weekend. It volition last taking house at the International Fairgrounds inwards Älvsjö. Thousands of dogs on exhibit as well as competing.
  • Advent Calendars are really pop inwards Sweden. Decorative pictures alongside piddling windows which yous opened upwards ane time a solar daytime revealing an paradigm or a poem. The Old Town (Gamla Stan) is having a living Advent Calendar this year. Everyday a window opens at a unlike adress inwards the Old Town to reval a choir, a singer, musicians or other artists. The windows opened upwards at 6:15pm, except on Christmas Eve when it opens at 11:30am. Their website is inwards Swedish, but at that spot yous volition discovery a map showing the unlike addresses as well as dates.
  • The Maxim Theater is putting on a functioning of Dicken's A Christmas Carol. Performances foremost on Dec 20th as well as run through Jan eighth (no exhibit on the 24th, 25th as well as Jan 1st). It is a British cast, thence the exhibit is inwards English! If yous are staying at the Rival Hotel then, contact me as well as I tin help yous alongside tickets.
The weather this weekend? Lots of snow, alongside temperatures betwixt 0 as well as -5 degrees Celsius. Colder air expected on Dominicus evening. Good news... it is pretty much official now: Stockholm volition last having a white Christmas this year! (Both pictures hither were taken exterior of the hotel this morning)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Man Ray Exhibition At Millesgården

Image
I had a mini-vacation concluding calendar week and, equally I stayed seat inwards Stockholm, had some fourth dimension to see a few museums & restaurants. Top of my listing was a see to Millesgården to run into their Man Ray exhibition  (last twenty-four hours June 8th, 2014). Man Ray  (1890-1976) was a modernist creative individual who is likely best known for his photography... peculiarly famous photographs similar "Les Larmes"  and "Le Violin d'Ingres" . But he was likewise proficient inwards other media, such equally film, sculpture, paradigm as well as drawing. Man Ray was 1 of the early on stars of the modern fine art basis as well as was a contributor to the Cubist, Dada as well as Surrealism movements throughout his career. This retrospective exhibition is small-scale inwards size, but it does encompass the 3 principal periods of his life/career: New York, Paris as well as Hollywood. The demo likewise contains examples from all of the inwards a high...
Read more

Restaurant- Roxy

Image
Yesterday eventide a friend as well as I went to i of my favorite restaurants... Roxy ! This is i of those restaurants that I intend actually deliver on food, place as well as service. It is located correct on Nytorget foursquare inward the SoFo neighborhood, i of the virtually vibrant parts of Stockholm. The staff are real personable as well as laissez passer cracking service. You experience similar a "regular" invitee fifty-fifty if it is your kickoff visit. pork bourguignon avec kit The carte du jour leans towards Castilian cuisine as well as at that spot is something for everyone including unopen to cracking vegetarian dishes. I actually had problem deciding what to get, only in conclusion I chose their Castilian version of Beef Bourguignon made alongside pork (Pata Negra). I wasn't disappointed... it was the perfect dish alongside a wintertime tempest raging outside. For dessert nosotros both took the "avec kit": espresso or cappuccino, night chocolate tr...
Read more