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Michelin Conduct 2012

(Edit: This is the listing for 2012, for the electrical flow guide... click here! )  This year's Michelin Guide annunciation was a flake anticlimactic: at that spot is no alter inward the awarded stars from in conclusion year!  No eatery gained a star, nor did whatever lose a star. Many were wondering if Stockholm would finally larn a 3 star restaurant. They would... if it was upwardly to me. I recall that they are worth a exceptional journey! Maybe side past times side year. There are likewise a few novel restaurants that mightiness gain a star as well as brand the listing side past times side year. Jonas ? AG ? Ekstedts ? Gastrologik ? We'll see! In the meantime hither is the consummate listing for 2012: Two Stars: Frantzén/Lindeberg Mathias Dahlgren Matsalen One Star: F12 Restaurant Lux Mathias Dahlgren Matbaren Esperanto For those of you lot on a tighter budget, Michelin Guide has some other category called Bib Gourmand that is awarded to restaurants amongst "good nut...

Bangalore ( बंगलौर ). A Voyage To Ancient Together With Modern Bangalore (Bengaluru), Southern Karnataka, India, Asia

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  Rebranded Bengaluru inward Nov 2006, the metropolis to a greater extent than normally known every bit Bangalore is non an obvious charmer. The crazy traffic, associated pollution in addition to creaking infrastructure of this information technology nail town volition fast receive yous demented. However, fifty-fifty though locals rarely sing Bengaluru’s praises every bit a tourist destination, it’s non a dead loss. There are a handful of interesting sights, the climate is benevolent, the city’s reputation for light-green spaces is good deserved, in addition to the youthful issue energy in addition to imagination (not to holler disposable income) of the ITocracy fuels a progressive dining, drinking in addition to shopping scene – ane of the best inward India , inward fact. Show inward Lonely Planet ...

Museums For All Tastes

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I ofttimes write well-nigh the pop fine art as well as history museums inwards Stockholm... the Vasa , Skansen , Moderna , National , Nobel , Historiska as well as Fotografiska . But in that place are hence many other museums to conduct from; in that place is a museum for every sense of savor as well as interest. With over lxxx museums, Stockholm is 1 of the highest museums-per-capita cities inwards the world! Museum of Dance You accept museums of other cultures as well as history than Swedish: Jewish , Mediterranean , Ethnography as well as East Asian . There are museums for specific arts: architecture , dance , silk & weaving , lithography as well as music & theater . There are fifty-fifty museums for specific interests: toys , police ,  technology , naval history , military , post , tobacco as well as fifty-fifty alcohol  (opening inwards May, 2012). Not to mention, a myriad of fine art galleries throughout the city! Two of the smaller museums are of particular ...

Restaurant Gotland

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Google Maps The Swedish isle of Gotland is located out inward the middle of the Baltic Sea, simply S of Stockholm. The isle is a pop destination, due mainly to its rich history (runestones, Viking graves, walled urban gist of Visby), beautiful nature too beaches every moment good every moment the fact that Ingmar Bergman lived for many years on an isle ( Fårö ) off the northern coast. If you lot are planning a longer rest inward Sweden this summer, thus this isle is definitely worth a view (regular boats too flights from Stockholm). If not, thus don't worry: at that spot is a niggling business office of Gotland inward Stockholm... Restaurant Gotland is a cracking house to gustation gotländsk cuisine too larn a experience for the gotländsk culture. Located in the Stureplan district, the restaurant's bill of fare reflects the rich, seasonal arrive at of the island. They are specially good known for their lamb too pork, but too fish, cheeses, asparagus too other vegetables. I...

Dublin ( Baile Átha Cliath ). A Voyage To Dublin - Ireland, Europe

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Definition of a non bad city: a house that makes virtue out of vice in addition to knows just where to uncovering fun. Welcome to Dublin, contender for greatest metropolis inwards Europe . At outset glance, it’s form of hard to encounter why. Dublin isn’t every bit sexy or every bit sultry every bit other European capitals, the architecture is a chip of a jumble in addition to it seems everyone has something to complain about. Dubs tin hold out brutally unsentimental most their city, simply their warts-and-all attachment is born out of a genuine honey of a house that oozes personality, a metropolis whose soul in addition to sociability makes it the most charismatic of capitals. Sure, the almost mythical economical increment of the concluding fifteen years in addition to the explosion of multiculturalism, which has seen people settle inwards the metropolis from fields every bit far flung every bit Nairobi in addition to Nagoya , accept given the metropolis a cosmopolitan s...

Lill-Skansen: The Novel Improved Childrens Zoo

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The amphibian/reptile area If you lot accept been reading this blog, too hence you lot know that I'm a big fan of Skansen ... both to see myself too to mail visitors to see. Skansen is many places inwards one: a beautiful park, an open-air museum of Swedish civilisation & traditions besides equally Stockholm's zoo (with enough of Nordic animals similar reindeer, moose, bears, etc;). It is a favorite amongst both adults too children, exactly instantly it volition travel fifty-fifty to a greater extent than kid friendly amongst their novel children's zoo... Lill-Skansen ! Bunny Hill? I was invited yesterday to a sneak preview of the novel facilities which volition opened upwards for the full general world on March 31st. There has been a pop children's zoo at Skansen since 1955, exactly instantly it has been re-imagined too revamped. Lill-Skansen volition instantly accept both an indoor too outdoor surface area amongst a broad multifariousness of small-scale Nordic ani...

Tourist Information Ahead Of Violet Visit!

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Tomorrow (March 22nd) Charles as well as Camilla Windsor, every bit good known every bit His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales as well as the Duchess of Cornwall, volition travel arriving inward Stockholm for a 3 twenty-four sixty minutes menses official visit. The distich are on a tour of Scandinavian countries inward celebration of Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee. If you lot are visiting Stockholm during this menses (March 22nd - 24th) thence in that place are some things that you lot should travel aware of. First of all, the regal distich volition travel staying at the Royal Palace inward the Gamla Stan. This agency the Royal Apartments will travel closed for visitors all 3 days every bit good every bit some rerouting of traffic inward the expanse every bit they come upward as well as larn during their visit. As far every bit I tin laissez passer on the axe say from their websites, the museums closed to the palace ( Treasury , Armoury , etc;) volition non travel affected. ...